To continue to utilize the forces of our Air and Navy without an effective ground element cannot be decisive. - T. R. Fehrenbach

The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary.

The United States will be forced to fight wars of policy during the balance of the century. This is inevitable, since the world is seething with disaffection and revolt, which, however justified and merited, plays into Communist hands, and swings the world balance ever their way.

America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.