ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground

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As the Russians increase their intercontinental missile strength they are bound to exploit the West's increasing reluctance to start ICBM war over small nibblings at other Berlins. The Army will be more and more needed as a highly flexible, fast-moving force, armed to deal decisively with nibbling tactics. Principal role of limited deterrence: make limited objectives too expensive for an enemy to contemplate unless he clearly wants to push to big war.

"The first purpose of the military strength which the United States maintains is to prevent war," says General Lemnitzer. "If our efforts to deter war are to be effective, they must provide means to counter military aggression successfully whether it takes either a limited or an unlimited form." In finding the proper place for the Army in that formula—and in designing and equipping the Army to fill it—Lyman Lemnitzer will face the biggest job and greatest opportunity of his years of effective diplomatic soldiering.