| Show Whirligig Russ Gain Is At Low Cost By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON The WASHINGTON The The heavy disparity in American and Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian losses of or lives and dollars in the Korean p police o 1 i c e a action action ac- ac c- c r tion has been beenA discussed A f frankly ran k 1 y by t f members o 0 f r if t I the joint point chiefs of staff at the off the off rec record 4 ord meetings I f of the Senate i r and H House 0 use Mr l Tucker Armed Services Services Services ices committees It is far greater great great- er than the public appreciates Members have hn prodded military military military mili mili- tary witnesses persistently almost almost almost al al- al- al most cruelly for these facts Although Pentagon representatives tives lives insist that they have ha no definite details on the tile Communists Communists' Communists Communists' Communists Communists' costs and casualties all their intelligence reports suggest suggest suggest sug sug- gest that Moscow is waging an extremely painless and inexpensive inexpensive inexpensive inex inex- pensive offensive Even more important this analysis applies to almost all the conquests the Soviet has achieved since the thc start of the year six cold war In that period Russia has hns conquered or obtained a going control over six satellite nations with a population of more than 1000 Soldiers Insofar as their evidence shows the military believe belie that Russia has not lost more than thana a 1000 soldiers in a world sweep which exceeds the ancient ancient an an- territorial grabs of Genghis Genghis Geng Geng- Genghis his Khan Alexander Caesar and Napoleon Most 1 of these deaths occurred from accidents and disease not from engagement engagement engagement engage engage- ment in actual warfare American cas casualties u a 1 tie s in Korea alone at the last estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate c co counting o u n t tin i n g the dead wounded and missing totaled They would of course have been heavier if operations operations operations opera opera- at the front had not been rather limited since the start of the truce talks Total allied losses in the cold war including other nations nations' nations nations' nations nations' na na- casualties in Indo-China Indo Korea the Balkans Gre Greece ce cc and other hot hotspots spots arc are listed as approximately The Americans and the French have suffered most severely Five Billions General Omar N N. Bradleys Bradley's group have tried to compile the financial cost of the Korean Korean Korean Ko Ko- Ko- Ko rean affair for the two committees committees committees commit commit- tees but they say it is impossible impossible impossible sible to estimate the exact amount However cr they concede that it now lies between and It would have been larger except for the partial cessation of hostilities during the armistice A reasonable figure for monthly maintenance of the police action during periods of heavy y fighting the Pentagon Pentagon Pentagon Penta Penta- gon believes would be about This amount will win increase considerably if V a 1 b breakdown rea k d 0 W n at leads to more intense warfare It should be noted that the Korean computation does not include the vast sums the United States has expended in other troubled areas like Formosa Formosa For For- mosa Indo-China Indo and the Middle Mid Mid- dIe dle East Small Outlay While Russian economics are such a mystery that no accounting accounting accounting account account- ing of the Communists' Communists expenditures expenditures expenditures can be made with any accuracy students of Muscovite Muscovite Musco Musco- vite vile affairs doubt if the Reds' Reds warlike adventures outside its boundaries exceed This relatively small figure is accounted for by Stalin's low cost of labor and materials starvation pay for his soldiers and confiscation of satellite resources resources resources re re- re- re sources at basement bargain prices Similarly his domestic military tar budgets are kept to a minimum As against the enemy's shoestring shoestring shoestring shoe shoe- string outlay the U. U S. S expenditure expendi expendi- expenditure ture for national defense including including including in in- foreign military aid will come to approximately in the 1953 fiscal year Clearl Clearly war and rearmament are far more costly luxuries for democracies than for dictatorships dictatorships dictatorships dictator dictator- ships a factor which Stalin well understands Indeed this thus economic comparison comparison comparison com com- parison explains why so many of our strategists doubt that Stalin will start a scale full-scale war lIe He will rely on the Marx Marx- Lenin doctrine that capitalism capitalism capitalism capital capital- ism is headed for a bust sooner or later |
