Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rights. "There's hardly enough difference between the Republican Conservatives and the Southern Democrats to put a piece of paper between," he says. How many Southern voters Goldwater swings is debatable, but there is no question that many want to hear him. The G.O.P.'s high command receives more Southern speechmaking requests for Goldwater than for any other campaigners except Dick Nixon and Cabot Lodge...
...after another, as frustrated Army careermen took off their uniforms and left the service, they found relief at a typewriter, rattled off angry books about Defense Department policies. Latest to step to the literary firing line: Major General John Bruce Medaris, 58, former chief of the Army Ordnance Missile Command, who retired last January...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff: Their inability to agree "removes the professional military experts from any effective role in the decision process." Command of the armed services goes by default to "a combination of short-tenure appointed civilian secretaries supported by permanent, professionally unprepared, civil service civilians." (Medaris' extravagant exception: Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, a staunch defender of the Army missile program, "one of the best, if not the best Secretary of the Army ever...
...necessary postulate for any real settlement of the Algerian crisis is a French government strong enough to command the support of the French people and the obedience of the military and colons in Algeria. This is an obvious point. Not so obvious is the fact that de Gaulle's regime is the only French government in seven years which stands a better-than-even chance of staying in the saddle while it negotiates an Algerian peace...
...their thinking when they assume that an arms reduction would be an excellent beginning to solve world problems. The purpose of armaments and war is to decide an issue by force. The decision of course is rendered in favor of the disputant who has the greater force at his command. War is an emotional and expensive method for solving world problems, expensive not only in financial terms but also in rivers of human blood. War, now as always, has its purpose in human society--the battlefield is the final and supreme court in the international dispute. In the old days...