Cambodia Fight Midget
Department of State Washington File: Text: Pacific Forces Commander March 7 on Asia-Pacific Security
Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) Capabilities. Our top warfighting deficiency is the inability to quickly plan and execute to the full extent of our capabilities because of inadequate theater C4. Basic classified network access, capacity in routers and servers, bandwidth, and updated applications all fall short of what we need for small scale contingencies (SSCs), and well short of major theater war (MTW) requirements. Using manpower rather than technology for gathering and formatting data, slows the speed of command at all levels -- Joint Task Force, CINC, Joint Staff and National Command Authority -- and overextends staffs. With its heavy demands on detailed information that must be shared at all levels of command and among coalition partners, our information infrastructure must be funded and kept up to date for effective operations in the information age. Management of networks, to include spectrum, bandwidth, and information dissemination, is a mission of the wa ... [Read More]
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LBJ: Now, I don't give out an interview every day because it makes you look like a midget if I'm handling down here and you're just popping off up there. ... LBJ: Now, we feel that very, very strongly. My own personal opinion is, that the twenty years that the UN has been in existence, it has not had a fair shake. I don't think that Austin,/2/ and I don't think that Lodge/3/ and I don't think that Stevenson ever got over the fact that we just couldn't fight any more wars, and we had to settle them some way, and this is the best way to settle them. Now, Morse/4/ says we oughtn't to be so strong for UN settling Pakistan and India, and then being gangsters so far as Vietnam is concerned. Well, I don't know whether--I didn't get us into Vietnam and that was behind me before I got into it. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: Congressional Report on North Korean Threat
The major hurdle faced by the DPRK in maintaining its forces is the failing state of its economy. To this end, a range of public evidence points to a serious deterioration in North Korea's conventional arms war fighting capability, particularly in such critical areas as unit readiness, modernization, sustainability, and defense industrial capacity supporting conventional arms. ... The concept of international abhorrence regarding CBW carries little weight with the DPRK.(24) This could be attributed to North Korea's apparent belief that the United States and South Korea would use CBW in a conflict, international agreements notwithstanding. This belief is reflected in North Korean propaganda, but more significantly in the extensive CBW defense preparations undertaken not only for its military forces, but also for its civilian population. It is also frequently argued that the DPRK would consider any military conflict as a fight for its survival as a nation, and hence would adopt an "Armageddon" attitude, unconstrained by international law. ... [Read More]
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