Suchergebnisse

I have been asked to talk today on the situation in the Mediterranean and Middle East-and what I shall give you is pretty much of a reporter's story. I have recently been there and have seen a good many of our military, naval, and diplomatic people-­ and many local personalities as well. I'll give you as objective a survey of the existing situation as I can.

National power exists only to serve the national purposes, to help achieve the national aims.

This morning, my assignment is a challenging one indeed: an analysis of current U.S. military strategy and how it supports the participation of our armed forces, either under circumstances of general war or of conflict short of general war.

In this discussion I wiII try to confine myself to the consideration of defensive alliances in which two or more states come together to defend themselves against a common peril. That is the type of alliance in which we are now engaged and in which, historically, our in­terest is stronger than in the offensive type.