The Secretaries of Defense: A Brief History, 1947-1985

Naslovnica
Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1985 - Broj stranica: 75
 

Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve

Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze

Popularni odlomci

Stranica 6 - Council is to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the national security...
Stranica 6 - In enacting this legislation, it is the intent of Congress to provide a comprehensive program for the future security of the United States, to provide for the establishment of integrated policies and procedures for the departments, agencies, and functions of the Government relating to the national security...
Stranica 30 - The United States has come to the conclusion that, to the extent feasible, basic military strategy in a possible general nuclear war should be approached in much the same way that more conventional military operations have been regarded in the past.
Stranica 33 - Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.
Stranica 41 - Should a President, in the event of a nuclear attack, be left with the single option of ordering the mass destruction of enemy civilians, in the face of the certainty that it would be followed by the mass slaughter of Americans?
Stranica 4 - I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
Stranica 46 - By essential equivalence, we mean the maintenance of conditions such that: Soviet strategic nuclear forces do not become usable instruments of political leverage, diplomatic coercion, or military advantage...
Stranica 31 - Strategic Forces General Purpose Forces Intelligence and Communications Airlift and Sealift Guard and Reserve Forces Research and Development Central Supply and Maintenance Training, Medical, Other General Personnel Activities...
Stranica 30 - The very strength and nature of the alliance forces make it possible for us to retain, even in the face of a massive surprise attack, sufficient reserve striking power to destroy an enemy society if driven to it. In other words, we are giving a possible opponent the strongest imaginable incentive to refrain from striking our own cities.
Stranica 30 - The cornerstone of our strategic policy continues to be to deter deliberate nuclear attack upon the United States, or its allies, by maintaining a highly reliable ability to inflict an unacceptable degree of damage upon any single aggressor, or combination of aggressors, at any time during the course of a strategic nuclear exchange — even after our absorbing a surprise first strike.

Bibliografski podaci