Word: outpointing
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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What to Wage? The push for strengthened conventional capability has been on for some time, particularly in the Pentagon, where the Army and Air Force have been leaking cascades of "papers," "memos" and rumors in an attempt to outpoint each other. Army conventional-war strategists scored high points last May, when Major General Charles H. Bonesteel III. now special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepared a memo that is the backbone of the new doctrine. Wrote Bonesteel: "Continued primary reliance on massive nuclear retaliation to deter all forms of aggression will limit the United States...