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...next model. The Soviets generally need about half the time the U.S. needs to get a new tank into service. "The good old U.S. Army," says McChrystal, "is going to put out that IFV with every bit of innovation they can, and it'll be a monster." General Volney Warner, who retired last summer from the Army's readiness command, admits this is a problem: "There is always something coming along tomorrow that we ought to hang on a weapon. So we lose control over the development...
...Europe. More important, military reformers charge, the Pentagon has fallen into a "goldplated mousetrap" of always holding out for the final, supremely costly "last 10%" in technology that might give a weapon an unconquerable edge in battle. Even some military officers agree with this criticism. Says retiring Major General Volney Warner, chief of U.S. Readiness Command: "We have been captives of technology. There is always some development promised tomorrow that we ought to hang on to a weapons system, so that system stays out there ten, eleven, twelve years being perfected and meanwhile we are stuck with old and ineffective...
Under a headline proclaiming, "De Gaulle Staggers NATO, Limits France to 'Own war,'" Volney D. Hurd reported that the President told the French Staff College "France will only 'associate' itself with its allies and will fight only what are clearly and exclusively 'its wars, using its men and its material, on its soil...
...VOLNEY BROWN JR. Los Angeles...
Harvard Club of New York City (Club Building, 27 West 44th Street--initiation fee): Volney F. Righter '26, 17 East 42nd Street, New York...