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...existing force of no wings, with plans laid down for a buildup to 137 wings...
...Thirdly, it is not possible to select a particular date on which we must be ready for hostilities down to the last button." Alexander, like Ike, apparently thought that the "crash buildup" policy under which the West geared its rearmament to a nicely calculated schedule of "years of maximum danger" had outlived its useful ness. "We have substituted, and I say 'we' with emphasis, for the uncontrolled rush to arms at any price, the long view and the steady, calculated buildup." One Alex ander ambition: to build up a mobile strategic reserve in the U.K. This dashed hopes...
...laid the base for a defense system which will give the U.S. weapons of its own choosing to maintain the peace of the world. Gone was the costly concept of balanced forces, which has hashed up every defense budget since World War II. In its place, Eisenhower emphasized the buildup of air-atomic power. This, as far as Secretary Dulles was concerned, spelled a sustained capability for massive, effective retaliation-without the'slightest hint of aggressive intent...
...Buildup. Hunt began by hand-picking eleven mountaineers to work as a team in overcoming the tricky terrain and getting two of their number to the top. He timed his attack between the end of the winter gales and the start of the summer monsoons. By the time Hunt and his team reached the foot of Everest, the expedition had swelled to almost 400 hands, most of them coolies to carry equipment and food across the roadless approaches...
...Assumption. "When the present military buildup was begun, after the outbreak of the Korean war in 1950, the strategic assumption . . . was that Soviet action on a world scale was imminent . . . Soviet scientists had successfully tested an atomic device ... In the face of this and other developments. American military planners marked the year 1954 as a date of acute danger...