Word: unificationism
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Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal hauled the top brass and the top braid off to the seclusion of Key West and Newport, ostensibly-so the reports said-to knock the big heads together. But on close inspection, the big heads emerged not even bloody, much less unbowed. Was "unification" a failure...
Last week, a group of experts of the Hoover Commission* leveled further criticism at the unification plan. The committee reported that: 1) "the military services are far too prodigal with Government funds"; and 2) "the continuance of intense interservice rivalries hampers and confuses sound policy at many points . . ."
Under the Roof. Defense Secretary Forrestal has insisted from the beginning that unification must be gradual. It is, he said, like trying to bring General Motors, U.S. Steel, Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward together under one roof. As the Hoover Commission noted, he had, after a year and a half...
Last week, Secretary Forrestal took two more steps toward unity. He ordered unification of recruiting, he ordered the Navy to handle all military transport on the seas, and considered assigning the Army to handle all transport on land.
He also announced that he would set up an advisory body, composed of military and civilian scientific experts, to be known as the Weapons System Evaluation Group. This group would provide "unprejudiced and independent" evaluation of new weapons (e.g., improved atom bombs, rockets, etc.) and would advise on which service...