Word: pullbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this shows that radical solutions are becoming eminently respectable among students. Another 42 per cent said the military effort should "be reduced on the assumption that it will lead to a negotiated peace," indicating that a vast majority of those polled were in favor of some form of military pullback...
Defense Minister Denis Healey envisions an eventual cut of one-fourth of Britain's 417,360-man military force, including the already announced withdrawal next year from the troubled colony of Aden in South Arabia. The most dramatic aspect of the pullback will be the dismantling of Britain's mammoth naval base at Singapore, whose strategic location near the Malacca Strait has long enabled Britain to police Far Eastern sea-lanes. (Singapore has neither the ships nor the money to use the base itself, and made it clear that the U.S. Navy would not be welcome.) Britain still...
...question of withdrawing U.S. troops from Europe, McNamara originally hoped to bring home two full Army divisions, which, with supporting units, would have amounted to some 75,000 men. Wheeler opposed any pullback, and not only for the conventional soldier's reasoning, which flatly opposes reductions of strength on principle. Conceding that the forces could be quickly sent back, the general argued that the U.S. might find it "politically undesirable to do so because to take action at a time of tension or time of crisis might trigger the very event you are seeking to avoid or deter...
...some it was an auspicious beginning. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield welcomed the pullback as the first move toward paring America's overwhelming military dominance in a self-sufficient Europe. To others, however, it was an open invitation to renewed Soviet belligerence. U.S. Army General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sharply disagreed with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's decision, arguing that "there is no military justification for any reduction of military forces in Central Europe...
...large-scale cutbacks in both NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. It was thus no surprise that at week's end Bonn indicated that it will not help pay for the upkeep of the Rhine army-a decision that almost inevitably will bring about a major British pullback...