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With the air of a man whose patience has run out, Defense Secretary Forrestal packed off to Key West last week, taking the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff* with him. "I hope to get them to come to an accommodation of views," he said. "If they don'...
Forrestal's decision to knock J.C.S. heads together and get them to agree on a general plan for the nation's defense was the climax of months of wrangling. It followed two stern warnings, the first from the Finletter Commission (TIME, Jan. 19), the second from the more...
Whose Divisions? In the face of such complaints and, even more important, in the face of the European crisis, Secretary Forrestal knew that he had to settle two serious arguments decisively. The first concerned the future of the Marine Corps. The Army, having difficulty in filling its depleted ranks, looked...
Whose Bombers? A more important question for Jim, Forrestal to decide concerned the use of strategic airpower. The Navy still thought of itself as the nation's first line of attack, refused to surrender the function of using strategic airpower-in this case, short-range bombers.
The Navy-Air Force quarrel had been brought out into the open last January, when Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz in his swan song proclaimed: "The Navy of the future will be capable of ... delivering atomic bombs from carrier-based planes." The carrier-admirals for whom he spoke saw the Navy...