Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed ServicesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - Legislative hearings |
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82d Airborne Division ABRAMS Admiral McDONALD Air Force Airborne Division aircraft ammunition authorized battalions believe bombs budget capability Chairman RUSSELL chart CHESAREK Chief of Staff Colloquy deleted combat Command committee consumption correct Defense DISOSWAY equipment Europe fiscal year 1966 GERRITY GILLEAS going GUTMANN Haiphong helicopters increase inventory objective JOHN STENNIS JOHNSON June 30 KENDALL Korea logistics Marine materiel MCCONNELL ment military million month munitions Navy North operations percent personnel problem procurement production question readiness REDCAPE REDCON request requirements Reserve rocket rounds Secretary BROWN Secretary MCNAMARA Senator CANNON Senator ELLENDER Senator JACKSON Senator SALTONSTALL Senator SMITH Senator STENNIS Senator SYMINGTON Senator THURMOND Senator YOUNG SHAW shortages situation sorties South Vietnam southeast Asia squadrons statement subcommittee supply tactical targets Thank tion troops U.S. Army units Vietcong Vietnamese weapons WHEELER YOUNG of Ohio
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Page 3 - To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace...
Page 283 - Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it — the people of Viet-Nam — against the Communists. We are prepared to continue to assist them...
Page 174 - Each Party recognizes that aggression by means of armed attack In the treaty area against any of the Parties or against any State or territory which the Parties by unanimous agreement may hereafter designate, would endanger its own peace and safety, and agrees that it will In that event act to meet the common danger In accordance with its constitutional processes.
Page 2 - That the time and method of disposition shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets.
Page 13 - Code, may be maintained in only such amounts as are necessary at any time for cash disbursements to be made from such funds: Provided, That transfers may be made between such funds and the "Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense...
Page 3 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, it is a pleasure for me to appear before this subcommittee.
Page 2 - The funds so made available may be expended to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment.
Page 6 - The plan and date of disposition shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against avoidable loss on the sale or transfer of the material to be released and the protection of producers, processors, and consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets...
Page 175 - Consonant with the Constitution of the United States and the Charter of the United Nations and in accordance with its obligations under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, the United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member of protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom.
Page 67 - However, the survival of an independent government in South Vietnam is so important to the security of all of southeast Asia and to the free world that I can conceive of no alternative other than to take all necessary measures within our capability to prevent a Communist victory.