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Show The .Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 21, I960 The Uncertain Trumpet Roles Vital to U.S. Military, Defense w Note: Thl 1 the Editor1 ieventh In lerlr of article by Gen. Maxwell Taylor, former Army chief of taff, author of "The Uncertain Trumpet," from on the which these article poature of the United were condenaed. State By Gen, Maxwell D. Taylor, ret. 'ijr The overall responsibility for our national security falls to the President. is HE IS ASSISTED by two ad visory bodies, the National Security Council and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The usual members of the National Security Council include the President, vice president, the secretaries of state, defense, and treasury, the directors of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization and the Bureau of the Budget CHOCOLATE COVERED v tN , '.'I tj j 'v,, ;v i i jSV!! -- ' V"" v fct .WW A.i? Is there a spot the infantrymen . . . The JCS document comparable to the Basic National Security Policy is the" Joint Strategic Objectives Plan (JSOP). Its purpose Is to provide guidance for the development of forces needed, in the fiscal year beginning four years ahead. tfotton-- Mountain Stt IT ESTIMATES the military requirements for cold, limited, or general war, and Includes a determination of the military with their disforces, together positions and employment nee essary to implement the military strategy derived from the Basiojs,ationaLccurity-Po- L L icy." It also provides guidance for service mobilization plahning and .serves as a basis for the annual statement on military requirements to the secretary of defense to assist him in deTelephone veloping budgetary guidance for the next fiscal year. on Sunday (plus federal excise fax. So pick up your phone ond disnOy really enjoy o long tance coll How obout tonight? A- v I - ;V - - v Associated Press Phot - casts were highly unsatisfactory to the secretary of defense, who either rejected such estimates or imposed fiscal ceilings to restrain what he considered blue sky planning. As a result, the JSOP has become more and more a preview of the next budget squabble and less and less a document for midrange strategic planning. IN ITS USUAL format, the JSOP contains an evaluation of the military threat in the period .under consideration, a strategic concept for the conduct of cold, limited, and general war, a logistics annex, and a tabulation of forces required. It has been the development of the latter, so called force tabs which has generated the greatest divergence of views within the Joint Chiefs of Staff. V1GBS LIST PRICE (0)(0) REG.4.95 Medicated Net VA-Tno-ti- Drop. oL R7. ASPIRIN TABLETS V -- A (oVCoTc front line In Korea? Planning their role la tough, says Gen. Taylor in todays story. THUS, IN spite of the seem ing local procedures for devel-- , oping national strategy in the National Security Council and military strategy in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the system has failed for several fundamental reasons. The National Security Coun- cil Jias not come to grips with the fundamental defense problems and has failed to produce clear-cu- t guidance. THE JOINT Chiefs of Staff have failed to agree on the fpreps needed to support the agreed strategic concept and hence have not produced the guidance needed by the military services. The secietary of defense has interjected fiscal considerations into midrange strategic planning and has thus deprived it of much of its potential value. But this is only part of the story. Next: Behind scenes with Joint Chiefs of Staff. o cil. - 5 de-th- e WEDDING TEEDI " IN PRACTICE, they apOBVIOUSLY the JSOP is inproach the President habitually through the secretary and tended to be a most Important have no regular contact with document for the orderly dethe NSC other than through velopment of military the attendance of the chairman at Council meetings. UNFORTUNATELY, like the The Joint Chiefs of Staff, as "Basic National Security Pola body, exercise no command It has failed to achieve icy, but have purely staff and ad- its high purpose. Not one of visory functions. the three most recent JSOPs THEY ARE inserted between has been completed in a form the secretary of defense and suitable to serve as a true four-yea- r planning document the unified and specified commanders at home and overseas. THE PRIMARY cause of They are assisted by a three-sta- r failure has been the inability director and about 400 the Ch'prs t0 agree on the other officers diawn from all cornbinatLon of forces sup services, constituting a joint Por,ab,e hy the financial staff which operates a mihtarv wbirh thp spprptar of post on duty around i )as fense has consldprpd feasible clock. Thp JSOP was originally THIS IS thp body which conceived as a document which would give military direction would allow the Chiefs to esti-tthe conduct of war under matp military requirements the authority of the command without prior consideration of (the President) and budget ceilings. the secretary of defense. AS A RESULT JSOP 00 In their staff capacity, the JCS may be described as a would have required about 48 committee which performs billion dollars and the later functions such as are normally ones 55 58 billion. Such fore- assigned to the chief of staff of the commanding general of an operational headquarters. TO DEVELOP these plans and to provide this direction they need a clear, clarion call of guidance rom the trumpet of the National Security Coun- station ratfe or ' VIBRATOR PILLOW WITH HEAVY REMOVABLE CORDUROY COVER AND SPONGE RUBBER CUSHION. TUILY GUARAN- - w But Lacking in Guidance plans.! Now, for only $1.75 o leu, you country, Con coll onywher xcept Alosko or Hawou, ond tall rtbr thres wonderful minutes ofTht - future for such as these Marines near THEIR EFFECTIVENESS has never been tested by the strains of all out war but many military men are convinced that In such war as the future may hold a committee can never replace a single chief of staff. That is my own opinion. As an advisory body, the JCS are charged, among other things, with the development of strategic plans and the provision of long range military guidance for use by the military departments in the preparation of their respective NEW, 10WEK Sfxv In the military eral budget is designed to provide the necessary financial support for the force needed under the Basic National Security Policy. Now let us consider the other important agency in strategy making -- the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a corporate body established by law as the military advisers to the secretary of defense, the National Security Council, and the President. profed- - NATES v ' 'V . . - DIPPED IN MOX ELECTRIC eeyy -- k EFFICIENT administration In any field calls for sound advice, clear and timely decisions, and following up of the implementation of these decisions. In the NSC, the followup is often defective. Nowhere is there a procedure for checking military capability against political commitments or our forces in being against the requirements growing out of the approved Basic National Security LONG DISTANCE !V - - SIZE. DOUBLE POUNDS , The end product has thus far been a document so broad in nature and so general in language as to provide limited guidance in practical application. The final text permits many different interpretations. by long distance j- - ye JUMBO CHOCOLATE PEANUTS. A 19c PER IB. VALUE! &. - - ' '8!- PERMITS , BRACH'S FRESH ROASTED L, t V:v :r- . v 1 A tj 1: m j v. THE MAJOR debates on military strategy that I have reported have usually occurred at the time of final consideration of this paper by the National Security Council. In its final approved form, the Basic National Security Policy should be the blueprint for the security programs of all departments of the government and provide the JCS with a firm point of departure for thier strategic planning. Unfortunately such is not the case. far away? T 1 ij ' 1 Pprhaps the most important action of the National Security Council is the annual review of the "Basic National Security Policy. THIS IS the paper which undertakes to provide broad policy guidance for all government agencies involved in national defense. Despite its portentous character, it is usually only some 25 typewritten pages in length. Its text is often carried forward from year to year with only slight modifications. IT CONTAINS a broad out look of the aims of U.S. national strategy and a more detailed discussion of the mill tary, political, economic, and domestic elements to support over all national strategy. It includes no estimate of the necessary finances. Join tha fun VIBRATOR PILLOWS v WHEN MATTERS affecting the military services are being considered, it is usual to invite the service secretaries and the chiefs of staff to the SIMILARLY thpre is no cedure to verify that the . ICondenaefl rrom "The Uncertain Trumpet," ropj right IWt, bv Maxwell D Taylor, publlahed by Harper A Brother ) 200 9 Grata Aiplrla. 1.000 AN EXAMPLE of an Army publication is one headed Character Guidance Discussion Topics, which advises tronPprs tbat: Described by the expression They lived happily ever after, the romantic view of marriage Just isnt realistic. This only happens In fairy tales never In real life. THE MANUAL also cautions soldiers that infatuation or excited love is not enough, and add that such love may leave you breathless today but it won't last in or out of marriage. Most of the manuals, however, are on much more prosaic subjects such as communications, military maintenance, utilities, transportation, food and other supplies, administration, medical procedures, air crew protection, intelligence, pho tography, weather and education. 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