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...Pentagon could feel the rustle among parents worried about the draft, and hear the gripes of reservists and guardsmen unwillingly and inequitably called back to the colors. Whether or not peace settled over Korea, something had to be done about the makeshift way the armed forces got its fighting...
Last week a distinguished five-man commission,* paid $50 a day apiece as experts, worked in a Pentagon office to make something specific out of the Pentagon's own long-range solution-universal military training...
...most important fact about it today is that so long as there are Koreas and an armed force of 3,500,000 men, there isn't much chance of its really getting started. U.M.T. is designed for cold war that has cooled off. It is the Pentagon's plan for keeping up a supply of trained men in a time when the nation does not want, or does not need, a large standing armed force. It is one answer to Pentagonia's recurring fear: What happens if the U.S. gets "all dressed up with no place...
Though the Pentagon talks bravely of starting U.M.T. next year with a "pilot operation" of 10,000 boys, it could not do much more even if it showed it wanted to. The hard military fact is that there is simply not enough manpower to maintain a standing army of 3,500,000 and at the same time siphon off the best crop of recruits-the 18-year-olds-into U.M.T. Each year 800,000 draftees, their 24 months of service ended, will be released from the Army. Unless Congress raises the draft age or increases the draftee's length...
What are the Communist armies up to while the truce talks drag on? At a formal press conference, a Pentagon colonel last week told the U.S.: that the enemy has utilized the time since the Malik peace proposal to build up his strength tremendously. Items...