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...least some Pentagon officials apparently felt the same way when they issued a subsequent report suggesting that Army and Air Force preparedness had indeed decreased during the Reagan term. But Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John W. Vessey, who joined the Weinberger attack on the Congressional document, publicly disputed those internal reports, and the official military line is to second Weinberger's outrage...
...principal bar gaining feature. Weinberger succeeded in persuading the Joint Chiefs of Staff not to oppose him this time around. That task was made easier because General David Jones and his fellow hold overs from the Carter Administration had by now retired; the new Chiefs, headed by General John Vessey, were less experienced in arms control and less inclined to lock horns with the Pentagon civilians...
...along, Shultz neglected the advice he was getting about Lebanon from the Pentagon, which has never been happy about the Marine deployment or the New Jersey's heavy shelling, which Shultz had demanded. Furthermore, General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned for months at National Security Council meetings that the U.S. was relying too heavily on the precariously constituted Lebanese Army...
...Thursday, after Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, accompanied by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Vessey, told a House committee that only 500 Marines would be moved offshore from Beirut by the end of February, the sense of congressional bewilderment and hostility rose even higher. When Secretary of State George Shultz appeared before the same committee to testify on the Lebanese political situation, Republican Congressman William S. Broomfield of Michigan warned, "We are wondering whether or not our policy [in Lebanon] is dramatically changing." Emerging from private briefings by Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth...
Chiefs of Staff opened up in 1982, Long was reported to be a contender, but the job eventually went to Army General John W. Vessey...