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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

o, in 1964, McNamara declared a new nuclear policy, stating — in very similar terms to the Navy’s strategy of a few years earlier — that the U.S. needed only enough weapons to kill roughly 30 per -cent of the Soviet Union’s population and half of its industrial capacity. At that point, all of the major cities would be destroyed; launching any more... See more

Asterisk Magazine Issue 01 Inaugural Issue

The Reagan strategy mandated staffing reduction targets to force process changes in the bureaucracy. This was a different approach than the REGO I strategy, and apparently more effective. The Reagan priorities called for strengthening the defense and foreign policy establishments. It is interesting that HUD appears on both the Reagan and Clinton

Taylor was soon off the reservation, arguing that the United States should abandon massive retaliation and the New Look in favor of what he called Flexible Response. Much to Eisenhower’s consternation, Taylor argued that a future war between the United States and the Soviet Union could be fought with conventional weapons.

Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace

cold-blooded need for control.

Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

Defense Officer Personnel Management Act (DOPMA) is the root of all evil in this ecosystem, and his metapoint is that the army has done the best it can given the constraints handed down by (as he named them) Robert McNamara and the legislative branch.

Tim Kane • Bleeding Talent: How the US Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution

Henry Kissinger established his reputation as a foreign policy expert with the publication of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy in 1957—an unrelenting critique of Eisenhower’s New Look strategy.34

Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace

Al parecer, Estados Unidos, mejor dicho, el secretario de Estado del Presidente Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, y su hermano Allen, el jefe de la CIA, habían elegido a Castillo Armas para dirigir la contrarrevolución por no ser tan aristocrático como Ydígoras Fuentes y porque al que tenía cabeza, ideas y prestigio, Córdova Cerna, se le descubrió en

Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)

But analysts in the Navy’s official think tank came up with a new strategic idea: finite deterrence . All the U.S. needed, they argued, was enough nuclear weapons to destroy the 100 largest cities in the Soviet Union; this could be done with a mere 640 mis -siles in 40 submarines