Depending on the dangers and conflicts of the era, U.S. MILITARY STRENGTH has been built up and sometimes cut back. In 1961, as TIME reported in a cover story on "The Growing Army," a new President was expanding the armed forces to deal with multiple hot spots around the world.
Behind the preparations being made by Abe Abrams and his U.S. Army fighting comrades lies the decision made by President John Kennedy last spring to increase the flexibility of the nation's defenses ... In appropriations, the Army got an extra $1.4 billion with instructions to spend it mainly on the men...
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