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Washington General. Tall and polished, Bus Wheeler, 59, is a Washingtonian by birth and a Washington general by training. Unlike his five predecessors and many other prominent alumni of the Joint Chiefs, Wheeler has always been the planner and strategist, never a war hero or even much of a combat vet eran. He had only five months of frontline infantry service during World War II, and even that was a staff assignment; during the Korean War, he was assigned to the Pentagon and Trieste. Though all too clearly no Patton type, he is known nonetheless as the most gifted tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Tension in the Tank | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...question of withdrawing U.S. troops from Europe, McNamara originally hoped to bring home two full Army divisions, which, with supporting units, would have amounted to some 75,000 men. Wheeler opposed any pullback, and not only for the conventional soldier's reasoning, which flatly opposes reductions of strength on principle. Conceding that the forces could be quickly sent back, the general argued that the U.S. might find it "politically undesirable to do so because to take action at a time of tension or time of crisis might trigger the very event you are seeking to avoid or deter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Tension in the Tank | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...Diddling Around. When McNamara repeated his well-known-and well-reasoned-opposition to deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system (ABM) this year, Wheeler pointed out that for two years the Joint Chiefs have unanimously urged deployment of this defensive network. Among other things, Wheeler argued, it would "demonstrate to the Soviets and our allies that the U.S. is not first-strike minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Tension in the Tank | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...most immediate concern, of course, is Viet Nam. Wheeler is no jingoist, just as McNamara is no pacifist. But before Congress their differences have become clear. Wheeler believes in the efficacy of bombing North Viet Nam far more strongly than McNamara, who doubts the wisdom of intensifying the air war. Moreover, though his misgivings have never been publicly expressed, Wheeler has not been wholly in sympathy with McNamara's gradualist increase in military pressure on North Viet Nam. Wheeler agrees with the theory of flexible or graduated response to aggression, but believes that the restraints the U.S. has imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Tension in the Tank | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...within the chosen framework, you don't diddle around. The gradualism we are practicing in South Viet Nam is a perversion of flexible response." The remarkable thing about the McNamara-Wheeler relationship is that both men, despite differing views on so many fundamental questions, have managed to work so productively in partnership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Tension in the Tank | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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