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...Department of Defense (see below). But he was not ready to answer in detail the question which correspondents tried to ask in a number of ways: How will the cuts affect the size and strength of the Air Force, the Army and the Navy? There would be more buildup than originally planned during 1954, the President said, but it is not yet possible to say what the final result will...
...still unchanged, the Eisenhower Administration's next move must be to assure the U.S. either 1) that the Communist threat is not as great as before, or 2) that the Administration has found a more efficient way to meet it, or 3) that the projected 143-wing buildup was too big in the first place...
...means of bookkeeping switches, Budget Director Joseph Dodge was able to trim Harry Truman's 1954 defense budget from $41.5 billion to $38 billion with little or no damage to buildup goals. But last week Dodge let the Pentagon know that he plans to get the 1955 budget down to $35 billion by cutting: 1) the Air Force's goal from 143 groups to 110, and 2) the Navy's supercarrier program (from three carriers to two) and other naval activities. With the approval of Defense Secretary Wilson, Dodge issued an order restraining the Air Force, which...
...fresh" was not the point of view but the U.S.'s acceptance of it. For the four years of NATO's muscle-stretching, budget-straining effort to throw up a defense against Soviet might, the allies' diplomatic and military experts worked on the "crash" theory of buildup-the policy of amassing the greatest possible strength in the shortest possible time, on the assumption that the year of crisis with Russia, "the year of maximum exposure," was near at hand. (In 1948 the hypothetical year of crisis was 1952; in 1949 it was 1954; last year...
...three days around the green baize conference tables, the council took decisions that ordained the change from the "crash buildup" to the "long, hard pull." They agreed to concentrate on the "quality" rather than the "quantity" of NATO's present force of 4,000 warplanes and roughly 50 divisions (27 in the field, 18 mobilizable in 15 days, five mobilizable in 30 days). They stretched out (i.e., cut back) last year's lofty Lisbon targets, meaning that NATO will now grow to about 70 divisions and 7,000 warplanes by the end of 1954, instead of 97 divisions...