The Joint Chiefs of Staff, in preparation for the Defense Department's 1955 budget last week, forwarded their estimates on what kind of armed forces the U.S. should have. The Chiefs' "new look" at U.S. military strength had received considerable advance publicity, but, for a country faced with a startling change in its enemy's striking power, last week's new look was remarkably unaltered.
There was the same big Army (26 divisions manned by 1,400,000 men). There was the same big Navy (including four battleships among its 408 combatant ships). There was a slight...
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