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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 atÃâà...
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 andÃâà...
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 theÃâà...
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 ofÃâà...
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 toÃâà...
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 andÃâà...
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 wantedÃâà...
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 ofÃâà...
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 formerÃâà...
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 toÃâà...
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:Ãâà...
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 sawÃâà...
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 wasÃâà...
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 ofÃâà...
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 broughtÃâà...
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 restÃâà...
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 toÃâà...
