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...Pentagon's latest estimate of enemy casualties: 624,000 dead, wounded and captured, including 206,000 Chinese and 418.000 North Koreans...
Just when the Pentagon seemed on the verge of convincing Congress that it could never fill its manpower quotas without drafting 18-year-olds through a universal military service and training program, the Army announced that it was closing its doors on the most obvious source of available manpower. Unless the world situation suddenly worsens, said Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, the Army's new G3* (assistant chief of staff for operations), the Army will call up no more National Guard divisions or major units of its Organized Reserve...
...Pentagon was quick to explain. What the Army wanted now was not just manpower, but a certain kind of manpower. Its plans call for 1) 24 divisions under arms, (counting 18 regimental combat teams and the six National Guard divisions which have been federalized since Korea), 2) replacements for the 24 divisions, and 3) enough trained manpower for a sudden, tremendous Army expansion if & when that expansion becomes necessary. There was no need for calling any more National Guard divisions into federal service (though the Army might call a few "comparatively small-sized units"); the Army already has or soon...
...Pentagon was philosophical about the men it would lose through the loophole, was willing to pay the price to get the long-desired U.M.S.T. under way. This week, in fact, General Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the J.C.S., agreed to a congressional compromise lowering the draft age to 18½ instead...
Last week the Pentagon took steps to dispel this strategists' nightmare. It announced that two U.S. National Guard divisions will begin moving next month to Japan. The 40th (California) now at Camp Cooke, and the 45th (Oklahoma), at Camp Polk (La.), will finish their training at Japanese bases. While stationed in Japan they will "provide additional security" for that country...