The man who was Secretary of Defense though LTG Gavin would have been far better, former USAAF Intelligence officer Colonel Robert McNamara found out later that had we tried to invade the Soviet troops would have used both nuclear-tipped tactical missiles and torpedoes fired from submarines to repel us-exactly the war scenario LTG Gavin describes below in his 1958 book. Fortunately, JFK wanted to live and was not a death-obsessed secret society member and used blockade rather than invasion to get Soviet dictator Kruschev to remove Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs) with nuclear warheads removed from directly threatening the American homeland. Ambassador to France during the Kennedy administration, his military wisdom was absent when it was needed most to prevent the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs amphibious fiasco that generated the near nuclear WW3 during the Cuban Missile Crisis the next year. While retired Lieutenant General (LTG) James M. time/magazine/article/0,9171,825400,00.htmlĬURRENT EVENTS: THE SECOND MISSILE CRISIS: NORTH KOREA
General Gavin calls on DoD Reform to Save the Free World
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