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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
... See moreTaylor 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
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