Index

• Acheson, Dean, 106, 287
• Air defense. See Strategic defense programs.
• Air Force, U.S. Department of the. See Joint Chiefs of Staff; Limited war capability; Military budget.
• Airlift/sealift capability, 10, 21, 192–193
  • Defense Department recommendations, 39, 170–173, 424
  • JCS discussions, 12, 452, 453n
• Amory, Robert, Jr., 345–348
• Anderson, Adm. George W., Jr., 234, 446–449, 453, 491
• ANZUS Pact, 246, 282
• Arms control, 9, 462, 483, 542
  • Basic national security policy review, 245, 304–305, 325–328
• Army, U.S. Department of the. See Joint Chiefs of Staff;Limited war capability; Military budget.
• Atlantic Community, 223, 264–265
• Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 22
• B-52 bomber force. See Strategic defense programs; Strategic retaliatory forces.
• B-70 bomber force. See Strategic defense programs; Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Ball, George W., 330–331, 479
• Ballistic missile defense (see also Strategic defense programs), 3–4, 66, 220, 227, 350n, 351
  • Defense-Budget memorandum, 61–63
  • Defense Department recommendations, 41, 153–155, 164, 392–397, 416, 430, 527–531
  • JCS discussions, 27–28, 233, 448, 450, 453, 589
  • JCS position, 395–396
  • State Department position, 190, 417–422
  • Taylor position, 214–215
• Basic national security policy review (BNSP), 119, 124–125, 243–247, 281–282, 304–305, 329–330, 489–490
  • Bundy position, 18–19, 33, 67–68, 263
  • Camp David meeting, 243, 250–253
  • Defense Department position, 82, 120–122, 264–265
  • JCS position, 105n, 121–122, 260–262, 266–267, 330, 436–438, 480–484, 489, 490n
  • Kaysen position, 102–105, 268–271
  • Kennan position, 285–294
  • Nitze position, 303
  • Policy Planning Council drafts, 222–224, 309–328
  • Publicity, 331–332
  • State Department position, 113–114, 121, 533
  • Stevenson position, 257–259
  • Taylor position, 272–274, 283–285
• Belk, Samuel, 107
• Bell, David E., 25, 225n, 430, 479
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 231n, 249n, 454
  • Military budget, 21, 56–65, 188, 219n, 227n, 233, 415
• Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 32, 106
• Berlin crisis, 10, 53–54, 121, 126–129, 458n
  • Military budget and, 166, 169, 195n, 212, 220
  • NSC discussions, 78, 242
• Bissell, Richard M., Jr., 229
• Blouin, Rear Adm. F. J., 181n
• Bohlen, Charles E., 349n, 350n, 355
• Bowles, Chester, 34, 197
• Brazil, 20
• Brown, Harold, 219n, 415
• Bruce, David K. E., 1
• Budget, U.S. Bureau of the, 56–65, 231n, 534–537
• Bundy, McGeorge, 1, 81n, 181n, 457n, 462n, 463–464, 488
  • Ballistic missile defense, 66, 214n
  • Basic national security policy review, 18–19, 33, 67–68, 121, 243, 263, 329–330
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 19, 66, 216, 231–232, 248, 381 [Page 598]
    • NSC Special Groups, 229–230, 454
    • Paramilitary operations, 111–112, 305–307
  • General war strategy, 499, 499n, 502, 505
  • JohnsonNSC speech, 540–543
  • Military budget, 65–68, 188, 209n, 219n, 383, 415
  • Budget Department position, 534, 535n, 537n
  • National security policy planning structure, 15n, 16, 23–24, 55, 106–107, 109n
  • NSC organization, 23, 385–387, 478–480
  • State Department role, 197, 463, 537–540
  • Soviet military capability, 436, 468, 469n
  • Strategic retaliatory forces, 15, 499n, 535n
• Burke, Adm. Arleigh A., 11–13, 27, 30, 51, 53–54
• Burma, 354
• Cambodia, 354
• Cameroon, 354
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 13, 19, 108, 229, 381n, 383
• Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), 246, 282
• Chapla, Col. Benjamin C., 15
• Chemical/biological weapons, 325
• China, People’s Republic of, 20, 27, 247, 282, 483, 509, 569–570
  • Nuclear capability, 8, 274, 492–494
• Civil and Defense Mobilization, Office of (OCDM), 22
• Civil defense measures (see also Strategic defense programs), 124, 220, 316–317, 377–378, 536
  • Defense Department recommendations, 38, 41, 164, 431
  • State Department position, 25, 190–191
• Cleveland, Harlan, 252
• Clifton, Maj. Gen. Chester V., 11, 15n, 27n, 31n, 48n, 123n, 130n, 235n
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 29n, 253, 485
  • Limited war capability, 81n
  • Military budget, 446, 587n
  • National security policy planning structure, 106–107
• Coast Guard, 13
• Coffin, Frank, 249n, 345–348
• Colombia, 354
• Congo, 30
• Congress, U.S.:
  • Basic national security policy review, 331
  • Berlin crisis, 123–124
  • Jackson Subcommittee, 32
  • Senate Armed Services Committee, 123–124
• Connally, John, 21n, 79–80
• Contingency Freedom Fund, 78–79
• Conventional forces. See Limited war capability.
• Counterinsurgency capability:
  • Army Special Forces, 484–485, 491–492
  • Basic national security policy review, 244–245, 265, 304, 321–322
  • Bundy position, 19, 66, 248
  • Civic action, 231–232, 256, 354–355, 466
  • Defense Department recommendations, 39, 42–43
  • JCS discussions, 29, 49–53, 491–492
  • Kennedy position, 235–236, 240–241
  • NSC discussions, 22, 78, 240–241
  • NSC Special Group (5412), 229–230
  • NSC Special Group (Counterinsurgency), 230, 236–238, 253–257, 307, 352–355, 382, 454–455, 464–467, 494–497
  • Paramilitary operations, 111–113, 235, 305–307, 353–354, 466
  • Police assistance programs, 248–250, 255, 345–348, 354, 467
  • Progress report, 352–355
  • State Department position, 26–27, 192
  • State Department review, 216
  • Taylor appointment, 78
  • “U.S. Overseas Internal Defense Policy” paper, 381–383
• Cuba, 107, 440
  • JCS discussions, 30, 48, 50–53, 452–453
  • NSC discussions, 241–242, 458, 478n, 480n
• Davis, Thomas W., Jr., 454, 464n
• De Gaulle, Charles, 449, 458–459, 500, 506
• Decker, Gen. George H., 11–13, 27, 30, 123, 233, 235n
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 29n, 49–51, 53
  • Limited war capability, 12, 81n, 426n
• Defense, U.S. Department of (see also Defense Department headings under other subjects; McNamara, Robert S.; Military budget), 69–71, 231n, 383
• Deterrence, 5–6, 25, 239, 279–281
  • Basic national security policy review, 244–245, 303
  • Defense Department recommendations, 37, 70, 402
  • Soviet strategies, 360–362
• Dillon, C. Douglas, 20, 386, 457n, 478–479, 499, 502, 544
• Dirksen, Everett, 32
• Disarmament. See Arms control.
• Draper Report, 252
• Dulles, Allen W., 20, 69
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 111n, 112, 231n, 236, 305, 381
• Dungan, Ralph A., 106–107
• Dynosoar. See Strategic defense programs; Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Eastern Europe, 247, 282
• Ecuador, 50–51, 354
• Educational exchange program, 22
• Edwards, William, 331
• Egypt, 456–457
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., 10–11, 252n, 385–387, 469
• Ellsberg, Daniel, 82
• Emrick, Maj. Gen. Paul S., 295
• Enthoven, Alain, 125, 300n, 308
• European integration, 264–265, 287–288, 459
• Evans, Allan, 250n, 253
• Ewell, Col. Julian J., 197, 229–230, 300n, 329–330
  • Military budget, 178n, 220–221, 227n, 234n
• Executive branch reorganization, 22, 105–109
• Export-Import Bank, Brazil, 20
• Feldman, Myer, 106
• Felt, Adm. Harry D., 53
• First-strike capability (see also General war strategy; Strategic retaliatory forces), 244, 387–389, 403–405, 436, 482, 543–544
• Ford, John, 330
• Forrestal, Michael V., 386, 485
• Fowler, Henry H., 249n, 480n
• France, 8, 449, 458–459, 500, 506
• Gallois, Gen. Pierre, 506
• Garthoff, Raymond L., 349n
• Gates, Thomas S., Jr., 10–12, 24
• General nuclear war, unintentional (see also General war strategy; Nuclear weapons policy), 4–5, 8–9, 18, 37–38, 258–259, 402, 526
• General purpose forces. See Limited war capability.
• General war strategy (see also Deterrence; General nuclear war, unintentional; Strategic retaliatory forces):
  • Basic national security policy review, 119, 121, 244, 284, 304
  • Defense Department position, 82, 119, 121
  • JCS discussions, 130
  • JCS position, 74–78, 181–187
  • McNamara speech before North Atlantic Council, 275–278
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee Report, 499–507
  • Response strategy, 69, 74–78, 82, 103, 277
  • Single Integrated Operational Plan, 82, 125–129, 181–187, 308–309, 491
  • Strategic retaliatory forces and, 549–550, 553–564
• Germany, Federal Republic of, 459–460
• Gilpatric, Roswell, 1, 71–72, 80, 454, 480n
  • Basic national security policy review, 120, 267n
  • Military budget, 219n, 232–234, 415–416, 446, 587n
• Gold drain, 11, 13, 30
• Good, Robert C., 250
• Goodpaster, Gen. Andrew J., 11n, 467n, 480–481
• Goodwin, Richard N., 106
• Gordon, Kermit, 457 n, 535 n, 587n, 591
• Great Britain. See United Kingdom.
• Guatemala, 354
• Guerrilla capability. See Counterinsurgency capability.
• Hamilton, Fowler, 249
• Hansen, Kenneth R., 538–539
• Harkins, Gen. Paul D., 233, 255–256
• Harriman, W. Averell, 478–479, 494
• Heintges, Maj. Gen. John A., 53, 309
• Herter, Christian A., 24
• Hickey Report, 196
• Hilsman, Roger, Jr., 92n, 95–98, 250–253, 349n, 350n
• Hitch, Charles J., 196n, 415
• Holtoner, Gen., 349n
• Hoskot, Col., 235n
• Hound Dog program. See Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Howze, Lt. Gen. Hamilton H., 295, 423n
• Hughes, Thomas L., 250n, 253n
• India, 456–457, 460
• Indonesia, 241, 456–457
• Ingelido, Brig. Gen. M. J., 587n
• Intelligence, 54, 69, 108, 130–131
• Interagency Committee on Police Assistance Programs, 345–348
• Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). See Military budget; Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Iran, 49, 53, 354, 576–577
• Israel, 8
• Jackson, Henry M., 32n, 109n
• Japan, 28, 246
• Johnson, Charles, 107
• Johnson, Gen. Leon, 499–507
• Johnson, Lyndon B., 106, 436, 540–544, 587–596
  • Military budget, 232, 545, 565
• Johnson, Robert H., 107
• Johnson, U. Alexis, 352n, 381n, 386, 462, 494n
  • Basic national security policy review, 121, 330, 436–437
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 345–348, 454, 464–467, 485
  • Military budget, 219–221
  • NSC Standing Group, 479, 480n
  • Soviet military capability, 349–351, 355
• Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) (see also JCS headings under other subjects), 31, 70, 109–110, 121
  • Meetings, 11–14, 27–30, 48–54, 123–125, 130–131, 232–234, 446–453, 491–492, 587–596
  • Single Integrated Operational Plan, 125–129, 181–187, 308–309, 491
• Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP), 76, 82
• Joint Strategic Survey Council, 122
• Kaysen, Carl, 107, 300n, 386, 457n, 463
  • Basic national security policy review, 82, 102–105, 119, 268–271, 329–330
  • Military budget, 209–212, 219n, 383–385
  • Strategic retaliatory forces, 103–104, 209–211, 225–228, 384, 429n, 535n
• Keeny, Spurgeon, 499n, 534–537
• Kennan, George F., 285–294
• Kennedy, John F., 35, 456
  • Assassination, 534n
  • Ballistic missile defense, 153, 214, 392, 448, 450, 453
  • Basic national security policy review, 18, 124–125, 243, 330–332
  • Berlin crisis, 53–54, 123–124, 126, 129n, 242
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 22, 231–232, 235–236, 240–241, 352, 381
  • Army Special Forces, 484–485, 491–492
  • JCS discussions, 29, 49–53
  • NSC Special Group (Counterinsurgency), 236–238, 253, 307n, 464
  • Paramilitary operations, 111, 305
  • Police assistance programs, 249–250, 345
  • Cuba, 48, 50–52, 241–242, 452–453, 458
  • Eisenhower meeting, 10–11
  • General war strategy, 126, 499–507
  • JCS meetings, 11–14, 27–31, 123–125, 130–131, 232–234
  • Limited war capability, 79, 209, 217, 221, 423
  • Military budget, 56, 158, 219n, 221, 227n, 428
  • JCS discussions, 28–29, 232–234, 446–453
  • National security policy planning structure, 15n, 31–32, 109–110, 385, 478
  • Executive branch reorganization, 22, 105
  • NSC meetings, 20–23, 238–242, 457–462
  • Soviet military capability, 28, 152, 156, 299, 436, 469n
  • Interdepartmental Committee Report, 343–344, 355
  • Soviet strategies, 379
  • Strategic defense programs, 178, 526
  • Strategic retaliatory forces, 126, 138, 209, 225, 398, 498–499
  • U.S. military aid, 233, 240
  • Vietnam, 29–30, 49–50, 241
• Kennedy, Robert F., 478–479, 499n
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 231n, 236, 249n, 305, 381, 454–455
• Kent, Sherman, 349n, 355
• Khrushchev, Nikita S., 84, 86–88, 199, 202–203, 240, 471, 510
• Kistiakowsky, George, 19
• Kitchen, Jeffrey, 121, 350 n, 494n
• Kohler, Foy D., 349n, 350n
• Komer, Robert W., 456–457, 488–489
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 231n, 248n, 345–348
  • National security policy planning structure, 107, 229, 386, 463
• Korean war, 7–8, 114, 578–580
• Lansdale, Gen. Edward G., 229
• Laos, 18, 241, 354, 578
  • JCS discussions, 12, 29, 49, 54
• Latin America (see also Counterinsurgency capability; Cuba; Nonaligned countries), 48, 50–51
• Legere, Col. Lawrence J., 300n, 386, 436, 463–464
• LeMay, Gen. Curtis E., 123–124, 130, 491–492
  • Military budget, 446, 449–451, 590–595
• Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., 11–14, 27–28, 31, 123, 129n, 130, 233
  • Basic national security policy review, 19, 124, 260–262
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 29, 50–53, 230, 236, 307n, 381
  • Cuba, 48, 51
  • General war strategy, 74–78, 125, 308–309
  • Military budget, 28, 219n, 233
  • Soviet military capability, 152–153
  • Soviet strategies, 349n, 355–358
  • Strategic retaliatory forces, 195–197
  • Tactical nuclear capability/strategy, 72–74, 294
• Limited war capability (see also Airlift/sealift capability; Counterinsurgency capability; Limited war strategy; Tactical nuclear capability/strategy):
  • Basic national security policy review, 120–121, 244–245, 265, 272–273, 282–283, 317–319, 482–483
  • Defense Department recommendations, 42–44, 79–81, 120, 122, 164–170, 265, 423–427, 565–587
  • Dual capability forces, 272, 282
  • General Purpose Forces Study, 294–295, 299
  • Hyannis Port discussions, 219–221
  • JCS discussions, 12, 448–450
  • JCS position, 121, 482–483
  • Kaysen position, 104, 209–212, 384–385
  • Kennedy-Eisenhower meeting, 10–11
  • McNamara speeches before the North Atlantic Council, 279–281, 440–441, 444–445
  • National Intelligence Estimates, 7
  • State Department position, 25–26, 114, 191–192, 417
  • Taylor position, 217–219, 273, 283
  • WSEG report, 14–15
• Limited war strategy (see also Limited war capability; Tactical nuclear capability/strategy), 7–8, 26–27, 200–201, 319, 441–442
• Lippmann, Walter S., 542
• Local war. See Limited war capability; Limited war strategy.
• Logistic guidance, 169–170
• Macmillan, Harold, 449
• Maechling, Charles W., Jr., 464n, 494–497
• Malaya, 53
• Marshall, Burton, 81
• McCloy, John J., 32, 106, 386–387
• McCone, John A., 248, 249n, 355–358, 457n, 478, 480n
  • General war strategy, 499n, 502, 505
  • Soviet military capability, 343–344, 543, 544n
• McDonald, Adm., 590
• McGhee, George C., 24n, 34, 113n, 222n, 252, 386
• McGovern, George, 106
• McHugh, Gen., 491
• McNamara, Robert S., 10–11, 31, 72, 436, 457n
  • Ballistic missile defense, 41, 153–155, 164, 351, 392–397, 416, 448
  • Basic national security policy review, 121, 264, 267n, 303, 329, 489–490
  • Bundy proposal, 18–19
  • JCS position, 260, 436
  • State Department position, 113
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 112, 235–236, 249n, 305, 381, 484
  • General war strategy, 74, 76, 499n, 500–501, 503–506
  • Single Integrated Operational Plan, 125, 308–309
  • Limited war capability, 79–81, 164–170, 219, 221, 423–427, 448, 450, 565–587
  • Military budget, 21, 219n, 383–384, 415
  • Defense-Budget memorandum, 56–65
  • Defense Department recommendations, 158–177, 428–431
  • JCS discussions, 54, 233–234, 446, 448, 450, 452–453, 587–588, 590–591, 593–595
  • National security policy, 24, 35–48, 69
  • North Atlantic Council speeches, 275–281, 439–445
  • Soviet military capability, 32, 344, 468n, 469, 543–544
  • Soviet strategies, 350, 355–358
  • Strategic defense programs, 39–42, 162–164, 178–181, 526–533
  • Strategic retaliatory forces, 14, 195, 225, 390, 534, 535n
  • Defense Department recommendations, 44–45, 138–152, 161–162, 398–416, 429–430, 498–499, 545–564
• McQuade, Lawrence, 469n
• Middle East, 576–577
• Military budget (see also National security policy; Strategic retaliatory forces; specific topics), 21, 36
  • Budget Bureau position, 534–537
  • Bundy position, 65–68
  • Defense-Budget memorandum, 56–65
  • Defense Department recommendations, 158–177, 415–416, 428–431, 564
  • Hyannis Port discussions, 219–221
  • JCS discussions, 28–29, 54, 232–234, 446–453, 587–596
  • Kaysen position, 383–385
  • State Department position, 188–194, 416–417
  • Taylor position, 217–219
• Millikan, Max, 252
• Minuteman program. See Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Murrow, Edward R., 20, 32, 236, 305, 381, 478–479
• National Intelligence Estimates:
  • NIE 11-4-60, 47n
  • NIE 1-61, “Estimate of the World Situation,” 3–10
  • NIE 11-61, “Probable Intelligence Warning of Soviet Attack on the U.S.,” 69
  • NIE 11-3-61, “Sino-Soviet Air Defense Capabilities Through Mid-1966,” 115–118
  • NIE 11-5-61, “Soviet Technical Capabilities in Guided Missiles and Space Vehicles,” 84–85
  • NIE 11-8-61, Annex C, “The Soviet ICBM Program-Evidence and Analysis,” 83–101
  • NIE 11-8/1-61, “Strength and Deployment of Soviet Long Range Ballistic Missile Forces,” 131–138
  • NIE 11-2A-62, “The Soviet Atomic Energy Program,” 301–302
  • NIE 11-3-62, “Soviet Bloc Air and Missile Defense Capabilities Through Mid-1967,” 118n
  • NIE 11-8-62, “Soviet Military Capabilities for Long Range Attack” (see also Interdepartmental Committee Report under Soviet strategies), 332–343
  • NIE 11-14-62, “Capabilities of the Soviet Theater Forces,” 431–435
  • NIE 13-2-62, “Chinese Communist Advanced Weapons Capabilities,” 274
  • NIE 11-4-63, “Soviet Military Capabilities and Policies, 1962-1967,” 469–477, 568
  • NIE 11-8-63, “Soviet Military Capabilities for Strategic Attack,” 513–525
  • NIE 11-9-63, “Soviet Military Capabilities and Intentions To Orbit Nuclear Weapons,” 486–488
  • SNIE 11-14-61, “The Soviet Strategic Military Posture, 1961-1967,” 198–209
  • SNIE 13-2-63, “Communist China’s Advanced Weapons Program,” 492–494
• National Security Action Memoranda (NSAM):
  • Creation of, 23–24
  • No. 1, 22n
  • No. 2, 22n
  • No. 3, 20n
  • No. 5, 22n
  • No. 6, 22n
  • No. 55, 109–110
  • No. 56, 111, 235, 305
  • No. 57, 112–113
  • No. 114, 216
  • No. 118, 255
  • No. 119, 231–232, 256
  • No. 124, 236–238
  • No. 131, 254, 465
  • No. 132, 249–250
  • No. 162, 305–307
  • No. 182, 381
• National Security Council (NSC):
  • Actions:
  • No. 2400, 33
  • No. 2407, 78–79
  • No. 2446, 242n
  • No. 2453, 343
  • No. 2460, 462n
  • Basic national security policy review, 19
  • Counter-Guerrilla Warfare Task Force, 229
  • Documents:
  • NSC 5412/2, “Covert Operations,” 19
  • NSC 5906/1 (see also Basic national security policy review), 33, 71–73, 455
  • Johnson speech, 540–543
  • Meetings, 20–23, 33, 78–79, 238–242, 342–343, 457–462, 499–507, 540–544
  • Organization, 23, 108, 385–387, 478–480
  • Role of, 2, 55, 109n
  • Special Group (5412), 229–230
  • Special Group (Counterinsurgency), 230, 236–238, 253–257, 307, 352–355, 382, 454–455, 464–467, 494–497
  • Standing Group, 478–480
• National security policy (see also Basic national security policy review); General war strategy; Limited war strategy; National security policy planning structure; Nuclear weapons policy; specific topics):
  • Defense Department position, 35–48, 69–71
  • Foreign policy considerations, 22, 24–27, 69–71
  • McNamara speeches before the North Atlantic Council, 275–281, 439–445
• National Security Policy Committee, 1–2
• National security policy planning structure (see also Special Group (Counterinsurgency) under National Security Council):
  • Bundy appointment as Special Assistant, 15n
  • Executive branch reorganization, 22, 105–109
  • Jackson Subcommittee, 32
  • JCS role, 109–110, 186–187
  • NSAM creation, 23–24
  • NSC organization, 23, 108, 385–387, 478–480
  • NSC role, 2, 55, 109n
  • NSC Special Group (5412), 229–230
  • OCB abolishment, 2, 15–17, 34, 106
  • State Department role, 31–32, 34, 107, 197, 462–463, 537–540
• National Strategic Targeting and Attack Policy, 76
• Navy, U.S. Department of the. See Joint Chiefs of Staff; Limited war capability; Military budget.
• Neustadt, Richard E., 16n
• Neutral countries. See Nonaligned countries.
• Nike-X system (see also Ballistic missile defense), 393–395, 418, 420–421, 430, 527–529, 589
• Nike-Zeus system (see also Ballistic missile defense), 214–215, 220, 227, 395, 416
  • Bundy position, 66, 214n
  • Defense-Budget memorandum, 61–63
  • Defense Department recommendations, 41, 153–155, 164, 392–395, 430, 527, 529
  • JCS discussions, 27, 233, 448, 450, 453
  • Soviet military capability and, 350n, 351
  • State Department position, 190, 418, 420–421
• Nitze, Paul H., 1, 69–71, 349, 350n, 462, 469n
  • Basic national security policy review, 19, 251–252, 303, 329, 480, 481n
  • Cuba, 107
  • Soviet strategies, 351, 355
• Nonaligned countries (see also Counterinsurgency capability; U.S. economic aid; U.S. military aid), 456–457, 460
  • Basic national security policy review, 258–259, 269–271, 289–291
• Norstad, Gen. Lauris C., 300n, 439
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (see also Limited war capability), 11, 124, 273–274, 380
  • Basic national security policy review, 245–246, 273–274, 287
  • McNamara speeches before the North Atlantic Council, 275–281, 439–445
  • Nuclear weapons policy, 124, 273, 278–279
  • U.S. policy, 26–27, 459–460, 483, 511
  • Defense Department position, 38, 70, 573–576
• Nuclear capability (see also Nuclear weapons policy; Strategic retaliatory forces; Tactical nuclear capability/strategy), 38, 121, 276–277
• Nuclear proliferation, 3, 7–8, 508
• Nuclear weapons policy (see also Deterrence; General nuclear war, unintentional; General war strategy;Nuclear capability; Strategic retaliatory forces; Tactical nuclear capability/strategy), 27, 38, 463–464
  • Basic national security policy review, 244
  • Holifield Report, 49, 53
  • JCS discussions, 53, 123–124
  • Kennan position, 288–289
  • McNamara speech before the North Atlantic Council, 439–440
  • NATO use, 124, 273, 278–279
• O’Donnell, Lawrence, 55n
• Offshore Islands, 10
• Operations Coordinating Board (OCB), 2, 15–17, 34, 106
• Organization of American States (OAS), 241
• Overseas bases, 43, 323–324
• Owen, Henry D., 194n, 230, 300n, 330
• Pakistan, 460
• Parrott, Thomas A., 248n, 249n, 253–257, 455
• Payne, Fred A., 308
• Polaris program. See Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Power, Gen., 129n, 130
• Prisoners of war, 12–13
• Ramsey, Henry C., 229
• Rayburn, Sam, 541
• Research and development (see also specific topics), 193–194, 324, 483–484
  • Defense Department position, 173–177
  • Soviet activities, 202–203
• Reserve forces (see also Military budget), 12, 173, 192, 323
• Retaliatory capability. See General war strategy; Strategic retaliatory forces).
• Riley, Herbert D., 260n, 309, 425n
• ROAD, 81n
• Rostow, Walt Whitman, 229, 253n, 488–489, 494n
  • Basic national security policy review, 222n, 243, 263, 281, 330, 489–490, 533
  • Kaysen position, 268
  • Kennan position, 285
  • Publicity, 331–332
  • Stevenson position, 257
  • Taylor position, 272, 283
  • National security policy planning structure, 106–107, 197, 463, 537–540
  • Strategic situation, 507–513
• Rovere, Richard, 468
• Rowen, Henry S., 300n, 345–348
  • Basic national security policy review, 82, 102, 119, 264–267, 489
  • Rusk, Dean, 19, 33, 71, 507, 543
  • Ballistic missile defense, 417–422
  • Basic national security policy review, 243, 329, 489, 490n, 533
  • Camp David meeting, 243, 252
  • Defense Department draft, 113–114, 120
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 19, 236, 241, 249n, 381, 484
  • Paramilitary operations, 111n, 112, 305
  • State Department review, 216
  • General war strategy, 499n, 502, 504–506
  • Military budget, 188–194, 219, 416–417
  • National security policy, 22, 24–27, 70
  • Planning structure, 23, 31–32, 34, 462–463, 478, 539n
  • Soviet strategies, 350, 355–358
• Russell, Vice Adm., 123
• Salinger, Pierre E. G., 16, 55
• Saunders, Harold, 231n
• Schaetzel, J. Robert, 298n
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 106–107
• Seaborg, Glenn, 499n
• Sealift capability. See Airlift/sealift capability.
• Shepard, Capt. Tazewell, Jr., 107, 308, 491
• Shoup, Gen. David M., 11–13, 27, 52, 123, 141n, 234, 446, 491, 590
• Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), 82, 125–129, 181–187, 308–309, 491
• Skybolt program. See Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Smith, Gen., 232–234
• Smith, Bromley, 15n, 107, 455, 479, 499–503
• Smith, William Y., 188n, 194n, 283n, 297n, 301–302, 350n, 480n, 488, 499n, 513n, 537n
• Sorensen, Theodore C., 1, 65, 68n, 106, 219n, 227n, 457n, 479, 499n
• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 52–53, 246, 282
• Soviet military capability (see also Intelligence; Soviet strategies), 28, 213
  • Ballistic missile defense and, 3–4, 395, 419–422
  • First-strike capability and, 403–404
  • Interdepartmental Committee Report, 344, 356–357, 361–363, 367–377, 379
  • JCS memoranda, 156–158
  • Military budget and, 145–146, 148–149, 163
  • Missile gap, 32, 67, 468–469
  • National Intelligence Estimates, 3–4, 6, 83–101, 115–118, 131–138, 301–302, 332–343, 431–435, 473–477, 486–488, 513–524
  • NSC discussions, 342–343, 543–544
  • Reaction time, 152–153
  • Soviet strategies and, 86–92, 200, 204–208, 341–342, 344, 356–358, 361–362, 524–525
  • Special National Intelligence Estimates, 199, 201–202, 204–205, 207
  • Strategic Air Command position, 436
  • Strategic retaliatory forces and, 4, 46–48, 156–158, 403–407, 550–553
  • Tactical nuclear weapons, 299–300
  • U.S. capability comparison, 46–48, 156–158, 568–573
• Soviet strategies (see also Soviet military capability), 7–8, 240, 312
  • Interdepartmental Committee Report, 343–344, 349–351, 355–380
  • Kennan position, 286–287
  • National Intelligence Estimates, 6–10, 86–92, 341–342, 469–473, 524–525
  • Special National Intelligence Estimates, 198–209
• Soviet Union (see also Soviet military capability; Soviet strategies), 509
• Special National Intelligence Estimates.
  • See National Intelligence Estimates.
• Staats, Elmer B., 415
• Stahr, Elvis, 423n
• Stevenson, Adlai E., 257–259
• Stoertz, Howard, 343
• Stoessel, Walter J., Jr., 31n, 34n
• Strategic Air Command (SAC), 28, 123, 161–162, 436
• Strategic defense programs (see also Ballistic missile defense; Military budget), 64–65, 220, 316–317, 536
  • Defense Department recommendations, 39–42, 162–164, 178–181, 526–533
  • JCS discussions, 451, 594–595
  • State Department position, 189–191
• Strategic retaliatory forces (see also General war strategy; Military budget):
  • Basic national security policy review, 103–104, 244, 303, 313–316, 437, 482
  • Budget Bureau position, 534–536
  • Defense Department recommendations, 44–45, 103–104, 138–152, 161–162, 398–416, 429–430, 498–499, 545–564
  • General war strategy and, 75, 549–550, 553–564
  • Hyannis Port discussions, 220
  • JCS discussions, 233–234, 451, 590–593
  • JCS position, 75, 156–158, 195–197, 387–389, 437, 482
  • Kaysen position, 103–104, 209–211, 225–228, 384
  • McNamara speech before the North Atlantic Council, 442–444
  • National Security Policy Committee position, 1
  • Net Evaluation Subcommittee Report, 500–501
  • Soviet military capability and, 4, 46–48, 156–158, 403–407, 550–553
  • State Department position, 25, 188–189
  • Taylor position, 126–129, 390–392
  • WSEG Report, 14–15
• Strategic situation (see also Soviet strategies; specific topics), 3–10, 507–513
• Tactical nuclear capability/strategy, 2, 7, 299–300
  • Basic national security policy review, 272, 283–284, 319–321
  • Defense Department recommendations, 42, 70, 104, 580–584
  • JCS position, 70–74
  • McNamara speeches before the North Atlantic Council, 278–279, 444
  • McNamara study, 294–299
• Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., 109n, 110n, 111n, 130, 152n, 458n
  • Ballistic missile defense, 214–215, 430, 448
  • Basic national security policy review, 260n, 267n, 272–274, 283–285, 330, 436–438
  • Counterinsurgency capability, 78, 229–230, 231n, 381, 484, 491
  • NSC Special Group (Counter-insurgency), 236, 254, 454
  • Police assistance programs, 248, 249n
  • Progress reports, 352–355, 467n
  • General war strategy, 499–500, 502–506
  • Limited war capability, 571n
  • Military budget, 178n, 188, 217–219, 415
  • JCS discussions, 233, 446, 450, 453, 588–589, 594
  • National security policy planning structure, 478–479
  • Soviet military capability, 299–301
  • Soviet strategies, 349, 379–380
  • Strategic retaliatory forces, 126–129, 390–392
• Thailand, 255, 354, 578
• Thompson, Llewellyn E., 52, 479
• Titan program. See Strategic retaliatory forces.
• Underdeveloped countries. See Nonaligned countries.
• United Kingdom, 245, 288, 389
• United Nations, 9, 223, 246, 258, 291–292
• U.S. economic aid, 19–20, 22–23, 33, 245, 460, 488–489
• U.S. Information Agency (USIA), 22
• U.S. military aid (see also Counter-insurgency capability), 48, 51, 233, 245, 488–489
• Vance, Cyrus, 426
• Venezuela, 354
• Vietnam, 50, 241, 255, 542, 578
  • Basic national security policy review, 246–247
  • Counterinsurgency programs, 29–30, 49–50, 52–53, 254–256, 353–354
• Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), Report No. 50, “Evaluation of Strategic Offensive Weapons Systems,” 14–15
• Webb, James E., 544
• Weiss, Seymour, 194n, 219–220
• Wheeler, Gen. Earle G., 330, 446, 448–450, 491, 589–590, 595
• White, Gen. Thomas D., 11, 13, 27, 51–52
• Wiesner, Jerome B., 18–19, 22, 219n, 300n, 431, 457n
  • Strategic retaliatory forces, 429n, 499n
• Yarmolinsky, Adam, 468–469