Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MILITARY: U.S. military planners are forced to assume that the U.S. must suffer the first blow in any future war. This is basically a defensive strategy, keyed to what a lover of Westerns would recognize as the "virtue [of] drawing second and killing your man." It rests on a massive...
POLITICAL: Survival, as an end, confuses political purpose. For example, U.S. leaders had to try to explain the Korean war as a challenge to U.S. survival, with the result, says Ways, that "the public had no image of what the U.S. was trying to win," was thoroughly confused about objectives...
No one really knew in advance what De Gaulle was planning; at a Cabinet meeting last week, the general coolly informed his ministers that he would show them the speech he intended to make to the nation only on the morning of the broadcast. But the public and politicians felt...
The confused and confusing war in Laos last week swiftly brought the great powers of the world together at the United Nations. At stake: What sort of response to make to Laos' appeal for help in fighting off the Communists of North Viet Nam? Ever since the Korean war...
Protesting loudly, Mboya demanded that other parties be similarly restricted. But Kenya's white rulers pointed to a 1956 emergency decree prohibiting formation of any all-African group that was not confined to a single district or administrative area. Talking darkly of plans to push ahead with his new...