May 1956

For many years the annual budget battle among the three military services for the taxpayer’s dollar has revolved around the importance of their several roles and missions. Each spring the Air Force would say that the decision in any future...

It would be foolhardy for us to ignore the fact that the Communists have numerically superior land armies, and air and naval forces second only to our own. We know that their military strength is supported by vast natural resources...