Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Alaska is a battleground for airmen, the Joint Chiefs decided; in 1947, it turned command of the theater over to the Air Force. The primary enemy thus became enemy airplanes, the primary defensive position, U.S. air bases. Let Russia or anyone else slip ground troops-airborne or seaborne-into such "islands of tundra" as Nome or Point Barrow, said the airmen, and you could isolate them like the mighty Japanese bases of Truk and Rabaul were isolated in the Pacific war. You would bomb the planes and shelters and leave them all shivering in the cold with no place...
...Practice. The theory seemed bold and simple. The complexities in carrying it out fell to a wiry, weather-beaten Air Force Lieutenant General named William E. Kepner, commander in chief of Alaska (CINCAL). Bill Kepner ran his taut command from a birch-walled office on the first floor of a thick, concrete command center at Anchorage. Around town it was known as "The Kremlin," much to his distaste ("There is nothing Russian in my command; I know of no Kremlin in it," says he gruffly...
...Jungle Road to Tokyo, by Robert L. Eichelberger with Milton MacKaye. Combat and command decisions in the Pacific; General Eichelberger understood both (TIME...
...After the Security Council declared the war an attack on the U.N. itself, and authorized a unified command under the U.S., Trygve Lie wired 50 nations requesting...
...military high command had seriously underestimated the power of the North Koreans...