AT HOME AND ABROAD THE BATTLE OF THE B-52S

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
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• Publication Date: July 17, 1956
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AT HOME AND ABROAD-
The Battle of the B-52s
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By Raymond Law,efce
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Ordinary citizens, which in- ity disperses an enemy s ail -Y r
, Russia in the same period
elude most columnists and com- strength over a huge area. They lanes of all
mentators, lack the official in- are floating bases ,that pack as produced 13,800 P
formation and the background big a wallop as land bases and types; Of this number 60 per
et ore not icittinc, r3urka as are cent were military, according to
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for most politicians. Our best military experts be- p 11 1
roduced by 3,200 comba
POLITICS INVOLVED lieve that in the next war the ianes. . ' .
That is the trouble in Con- first knockout blows will be di- We know on the i
press where the Democrats have rected at land bases, not big Alieri`"D6II'es director o
c aref CIA
sought to deprecate the ade- centers of population, because
that boYisie under
ng afWidgmental transitio
cluacy of this Nation's air power only in this way can an aggres- goi
and succeeded in adding nearly sor nullify the possibility of
ir1 ""mtlfP Yy equipment 'an
probably?tactics, So these fig
$800,000,000 to the Administra- massive retaliation,
tion's budget. The idea was to This could mean that our ures m6k-bfi~nge radically a:
the production of B52s principal air power would be soon as a year from now and i,
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s
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is dubious whether we Toad u~
by that amount of money. carrier-based, which, if not for
This was a political move, other reasons, the Navy is an on B52s which soon could b(
promoted and supported by the indispensable element of our as obsoldWas the recent 1347s
Air Force but not with the con- military establishment. This is the kind of situatio
sent of Secretary of Defense To ignore these considerations in which one :wishes the Presi
Wilson or with the ?support of is neither accurate nor justifi- dent would speak out. He en
`'the President. able. joys the Nation's confidence i
The fact that an election is General Twining has repeat- his military judgment an
`coming up next November and edly insisted that, the Russians political integrity and the com
that the American people want are ahead of the country in ,plexities are so great that prob
the best possible military de- number of ,aircra,, ip produc- .ably no other American ca>
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