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...danger of his life. At the beginning of 1965, when the U.S. had only 23,300 men in Viet Nam, less than 1% were draftees; today, draftees make up 20% of the nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and the proportion is likely to go higher with rising troop commitments. The new inductee thus has a better than one-in-five chance of reaching the battlefield...
...perhaps his greatest contribution, McNamara skillfully implemented the Kennedy Administration's goal of balancing the ability to mete out massive (nuclear) retaliation with the troop strength, versatility and mobility needed to fight limited actions. Five years ago, the U.S. could have blown up much of the world, but it could not have put a relatively small ground force into Southeast Asia without undermining its strength elsewhere. Today the U.S. is able to honor its worldwide commit ments while fighting in South Viet Nam. For some of the very reasons that he is under attack in Congress, McNamara has been...
...exultant climax came two days later when 500,000 cheering Cubans crowded into the Plaza to watch Latin America's biggest military machine pass in review before Castro, President Osvaldo Dorticós, and Cuba's other commissars. While MIGs screamed overhead, Fidel's Communist-trained troops, cadets and members of the civilian Popular Defense Force clicked smartly past, followed by armored troop carriers, tanks, rocket launchers and a flock of missiles. "There is something else that is not seen," Castro told the crowd jubilantly, "and that is many weapons more. The quantity has grown...
...love with a beautiful young woman who may or may not be a ghost. A few pages later she turns into the goddess Diana, and with her crescent bow and shining arrow slaughters a satyr who comes galloping along. All at once, the young man is captured by a troop of German soldiers and forced to witness the brutalization of some partisans they have captured. A little later, just as he is about to make love to the gorgeous ghost, he is seized by a powerful Negro who sometimes wears the mask of Anubis, the dog-faced divinity of ancient...
...next few months, the U.S. public can hardly demand major victories-at least until a serious supply bottleneck is broken and Westmore land gets the extra combat divisions he has been pleading for. But as the U.S. troop level climbs toward 400,000 men, as the price of war begins to crimp Great Society programs and boost taxes, Americans may find it harder than ever to accept the long war predicted by the Administration. Military men talk in terms of years, and though other officials insist that "something will give" long before that, few would risk curtailing the U.S. buildup...