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Observer Research Foundation
April 20, 2018
An estimate notes that the Chinese fourth-generation fighter fleet increased from 383 to 736 jets between 2010 to 2015, representing a 92 percent jump in fighter air combat power. Today, China ..... Summary of Records of Foreign Minister's Discussion with General Maxwell Taylor, 21 December 1963.
Fabius Maximus website (blog)
April 12, 2018
We can only guess at the motives and goal of packs that will form in the next generation, probably composed mostly of Millennials and Generation Z. Anger is a common starting point. Anger at reverse discrimination, at drugging of boys, at the government's support of Girl's Game (easy divorce for women atÃÂ ...
The Fayetteville Observer
April 12, 2018
Giants such as Gen. Matthew Ridgeway and Lt. Gen. James Gavin, who helped create the nation's first paratrooper division and then led the unit into the ..... Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, who served as the division chief of staff and artillery commander during World War II and become chief of staff of the Army andÃÂ ...
ArmyTimes.com
April 12, 2018
Retired Gen. Ann Dunwoody. Dunwoody was the first female battalion commander in the 82nd Airborne and the first female four-star general in the .... Retired Gen. Maxwell Taylor. Taylor served as the first division chief of staff and fought during World War II in Sicily and Italy. He went on to command theÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
April 8, 2018
Kennedy recognized Vietnam as a potential quagmire, and was determined not to get sucked in-despite the misguided, ideologically-salted advice given him by Ivy League patricians like McGeorge Bundy. Kennedy's military adviser, Gen. Maxwell Taylor said later that MacArthur's statement made a "hell ofÃÂ ...
Breaking Israel News
February 24, 2018
[11] For needed clarifications, I reached out to retired General Maxwell D. Taylor, a distinguished former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In rapid response to my query, General Taylor sent me a detailed handwritten reply. Dated 14 March 1976, the General's informed letter concluded presciently: “As toÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 6, 2018
I was impressed by the relationship between Westmoreland and his deputy (and soon to be successor), Gen. Creighton Abrams. The two had graduated the same year from West Point, 1936. Both had distinguished themselves in combat during World War II, Westmoreland under Gen. Maxwell Taylor andÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
January 29, 2018
For years the American brass had dreamed of finding a way to draw Viet Cong guerrillas and the North Vietnamese regulars into big head-on fights, where overwhelming U.S. firepower could decimate their ranks and force the Communists into peace talks on U.S. terms. The generals got what they wantedÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 19, 2018
In Washington, retired Gen. Maxwell Taylor, a respected World War II veteran and former ambassador to South Vietnam, advised President Johnson to abandon Khe Sanh. Food and water were rationed in the outposts, and wounded men sometimes died awaiting helicopter evacuation flights. The sense ofÃÂ ...
The Conversation US
January 3, 2018
H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, coordinated the drafting of the document with the secretary of defense, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis. ... I'm currently researching yet another general – Maxwell Taylor – who was engaged in comparable strategy reviews during the 1960s. Taylor was a formerÃÂ ...
PRI
September 28, 2017
After 37 days, the president decided to resume the bombing and sent Gen. Maxwell Taylor to the Hill to try to get Congress and the public behind the decision. “The Hanoi leadership is not yet convinced that it must mend its ways,” Taylor told the committee. “They doubt the will of the American public toÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
August 11, 2017
Gen. Andrew Poppas, current commanding general of the 101st, who also led the division's 1st Brigade Combat Team to Afghanistan several years ago as a ... Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, into Normandy during World War II. The aircraft is being restored, as well as Fort Campbell's Don F. Pratt Museum. (Photo:ÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 4, 2017
In July 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent two of his principal advisers, Clark Clifford and Gen. Maxwell Taylor ... Instead Robert Menzies, Australia's long-serving prime minister, sent a battalion of 800 troops, even though their role, like American strategy in general, was far from clear. As Menzies sawÃÂ ...
Amandala
June 13, 2017
He had led an airborne regimental combat team with distinction in the Korean War, and had attracted the attention of President John F. Kennedy's favorite general, Maxwell D. Taylor, whose patronage had gained General Westmoreland the Vietnam command. “Gen. Westmoreland boasted that he wasÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
March 28, 2017
Dereliction of Duty is a serious book. Thoroughly researched, carefully argued, it tackles a big subject: Who is responsible for the debacle that is the Vietnam War? McMaster concludes that everyone in political and military leadership was: Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary ofÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
February 24, 2017
H.R. McMaster: Right, I think what your comment, that the fish rots from the head, is true here because the institutional pressure came from the top, and it permeated all government institutions, and in particular the military. Gen. Maxwell Taylor is particularly disappointing in this connection, who was broughtÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
September 8, 2016
Most notably, he made retired Army Gen. Maxwell Taylor his personal military advisor, effectively elbowing aside the actual chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He later recalled Taylor to active duty and made him the chairman, where he helped Kennedy enmesh the U.S. military deep in the Vietnam War. The restÃÂ ...
New York Times
October 15, 2012
The top secret memo from the chairman, General Maxwell D. Taylor, dated Nov. 2, 1962, underscored the continuing danger of a nuclear conflict between the superpowers even after the Soviet Union agreed to remove nuclear missiles from the island. American military officials advocating an invasion toÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 19, 2018
In Washington, retired Gen. Maxwell Taylor, a respected World War II veteran and former ambassador to South Vietnam, advised President Johnson to abandon Khe Sanh. Food and water were rationed in the outposts, and wounded men sometimes died awaiting helicopter evacuation flights. The sense ofÃÂ ...
Salon
January 5, 2018
H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, coordinated the drafting of the document with the secretary of defense, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis. ... I'm currently researching yet another general — Maxwell Taylor — who was engaged in comparable strategy reviews during the 1960s. Taylor was aÃÂ ...
PRI
September 28, 2017
After 37 days, the president decided to resume the bombing and sent Gen. Maxwell Taylor to the Hill to try to get Congress and the public behind the decision. “The Hanoi leadership is not yet convinced that it must mend its ways,” Taylor told the committee. “They doubt the will of the American public toÃÂ ...
Bloomington Pantagraph
September 18, 2017
President John F. Kennedy wrestled with American involvement in South Vietnam as a communist insurgency gained strength: The subject will be covered in part two of Ken Burns' new 10-episode documentary, "The Vietnam War." The episode, "Riding the Tiger" airs Sept. 18.
San Antonio Express-News
September 13, 2017
C. M. Tuteur, who had a soft spot in his heart for Pat, addressed an appeal to Gen. Leslie J. McNair, then a brigadier general who had authority over the 12th Artillery. Pat had served “honestly and faithfully in the regiment,” wrote Tuteur. “This animal is the subject of a great deal of affection by the regiment.
Defense One
August 18, 2017
... 82nd Airborne Division could easily replace the traitorous Braxton Bragg, who was also a pretty poor general. Gen. “Jumpin Jim” Gavin would make a fine replacement for Benning, one of the most vocal proponents of secession. Perhaps Hood, Lee, and Pickett could be replaced by Gens. Maxwell TaylorÃÂ ...
Amandala
June 13, 2017
He had led an airborne regimental combat team with distinction in the Korean War, and had attracted the attention of President John F. Kennedy's favorite general, Maxwell D. Taylor, whose patronage had gained General Westmoreland the Vietnam command. “Gen. Westmoreland boasted that he wasÃÂ ...
New York Times
May 27, 2017
The man was Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese military genius who had led his country to victory, first against France's attempt to reimpose colonial rule ... of President John F. Kennedy's favorite general, Maxwell D. Taylor, whose patronage had gained General Westmoreland the Vietnam command.
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
February 24, 2017
H.R. McMaster: Right, I think what your comment, that the fish rots from the head, is true here because the institutional pressure came from the top, and it permeated all government institutions, and in particular the military. Gen. Maxwell Taylor is particularly disappointing in this connection, who was broughtÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
September 11, 2013
To counter the military's willingness to use nuclear weapons against the Communists, Kennedy pushed the Pentagon to replace Eisenhower's strategy of “massive retaliation” with what he called “flexible response”—a strategy of calibrated force that his White House military adviser, General Maxwell Taylor, had described inÃÂ ...
New York Times
October 15, 2012
The top secret memo from the chairman, General Maxwell D. Taylor, dated Nov. 2, 1962, underscored the continuing danger of a nuclear conflict between the superpowers even after the Soviet Union agreed to remove nuclear missiles from the island. American military officials advocating an invasion toÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
December 31, 1999
For years the American brass had dreamed of finding a way to draw Viet Cong guerrillas and the North Vietnamese regulars into big head-on fights, where overwhelming U.S. firepower could decimate their ranks and force the Communists into peace talks on U.S. terms. The generals got what they wantedÃÂ ...
Truthdig
October 20, 2017
The first study group reported its results in December 1964 to Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and Gen. William Westmoreland and to the ...
NWAOnline
October 15, 2017
This Oct. 2, 1963, photo shows President John F. Kennedy (right) meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (left) and Defense Secretary of Defense Robert S. .... 21 he sent Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor to ... Diem and Nhu were executed as an ARVN general pronounced ...
PRI
September 28, 2017
After 37 days, the president decided to resume the bombing and sent Gen. Maxwell Taylor to the Hill to try to get Congress and the public ...
Bloomington Pantagraph
September 18, 2017
18, 1964, where Attorney General Robert Kennedy visited. ... Vietnam War McNamara; Maxwell D. Taylor; Nguyen Khanh ... D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, raise the arms of South Vietnam's prime minister, Gen.
San Antonio Express-News
September 13, 2017
C. M. Tuteur, who had a soft spot in his heart for Pat, addressed an appeal to Gen. Leslie J. McNair, then a brigadier general who had authority over the 12th Artillery. Pat had served “honestly and faithfully in the regiment,” wrote Tuteur. “This animal is the subject of a great deal of affection by the regiment.
Defense One
August 18, 2017
... 82nd Airborne Division could easily replace the traitorous Braxton Bragg, who was also a pretty poor general. Gen. “Jumpin Jim” Gavin would make a fine replacement for Benning, one of the most vocal proponents of secession. Perhaps Hood, Lee, and Pickett could be replaced by Gens. Maxwell Taylor ...
New York Times
August 4, 2017
Maxwell Taylor, to Australia and New Zealand with an urgent mission ... even though their role, like American strategy in general, was far .... Australians were generally more comfortable under Westmoreland's successor, Gen.
Amandala
June 13, 2017
“The man was General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese military ... of President John F. Kennedy's favorite general, Maxwell D. Taylor, whose patronage had gained General Westmoreland the Vietnam command. “Gen.
New York Times
May 26, 2017
General Giap's American opponent, Gen. ... and had attracted the attention of President John F. Kennedy's favorite general, Maxwell D. Taylor, ...
New York Times
April 25, 2017
When Gen. Maxwell Taylor returned from South Vietnam in 1961, he proposed a seemingly simple way to stem the rising ... whom the reporter Thomas E. Ricks called perhaps the “most destructive general in American history.
War on the Rocks
March 28, 2017
... Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, presidential military advisor Maxwell Taylor, the ... At the end of the day, Army Chief of Staff Gen.
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
February 24, 2017
Gen. H.R. McMaster is a scholar, who has delved deeply into the .... Gen. Maxwell Taylor is particularly disappointing in this connection, who ...
Voice of America
November 16, 2016
In the fall of 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed off on sending more U.S. military aid to Vietnam — just a few hundred soldiers to train ...
Foreign Policy
September 8, 2016
Most notably, he made retired Army Gen. Maxwell Taylor his personal military advisor, effectively elbowing aside the actual ... James Mattis, the Marine general ousted by the Obama administration in part for making precisely ...
New York Times
October 15, 2012
The top secret memo from the chairman, General Maxwell D. Taylor, dated Nov. 2, 1962, underscored the continuing danger of a nuclear ...
Madison.com
September 19, 2017
18, 1964, where Attorney General Robert Kennedy visited. ... Vietnam War McNamara; Maxwell D. Taylor; Nguyen Khanh ... D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, raise the arms of South Vietnam's prime minister, Gen.
STLtoday.com
September 18, 2017
18, 1964, where Attorney General Robert Kennedy visited. ... Vietnam War McNamara; Maxwell D. Taylor; Nguyen Khanh ... D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, raise the arms of South Vietnam's prime minister, Gen.
Defense One
August 18, 2017
... the traitorous Braxton Bragg, who was also a pretty poor general. Gen. ... Maxwell Taylor, James Van Fleet, or Anthony McAuliffe, famous forÃÂ ...
JURIST
August 14, 2017
For needed clarifications, I then reached out to retired General Maxwell D. Taylor, a distinguished former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Tennessean
August 11, 2017
Gen. Andrew Poppas, current commanding general of the 101st, who also led the division's 1st Brigade Combat Team to Afghanistan severalÃÂ ...
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