National Security Seminar, Issue 21

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[Department of Defense], Industrial College of the Armed Forces., 1971
 

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Page 55 - Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
Page 107 - Fourth, a belief that the principal future pattern of this assistance must be US support for Latin American initiatives, and that this can best be achieved on a multilateral basis within the inter-American system.
Page 39 - Mobilization to advise the President concerning the coordination of military, industrial, and civilian mobilization, including — (1) policies concerning industrial and civilian mobilization in order to assure the most effective mobilization and maximum utilization of the Nation's manpower in the event of war...
Page 48 - Norway, the experience of the French in metropolitan planning. Having forged a working partnership, we all have a unique opportunity to pool our skills, our intellects, and our inventiveness in finding new ways to use technology to enhance our environments, and not to destroy them.
Page 182 - ... goals for the next period, and to set in motion policies to achieve them. For all Americans must understand that because of its strength, its history, and its concern for human dignity, this nation occupies a special place in the world. Peace and progress are impossible without a major American role.
Page 11 - Eighth annual report of the activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production with material on mobilization from departments and agencies.
Page 130 - ' to declare war,'' "to raise and support armies," "to provide and maintain a navy," and to call forth the militia to "repel invasions.
Page 99 - Trade and Investment. Foreign investment, symbolized by the multinational corporation, has become increasingly important in relation to the flows of goods which have been the focus of traditional trade policy. We must explore more fully the relationship between our trade and foreign investment policies. — Trade Adjustment. We must learn how better to adjust our own economy to the dynamic forces of world trade, so that we can pursue our objective of freer trade without unacceptable domestic disruption....
Page 34 - Defense language, logistics is the science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. In its most comprehensive sense it includes those aspects of military operations which deal with: (a) design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel; (b) movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; (c) acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation and disposition of facilities; and (d) acquisition...
Page 15 - Anti" campaigns of the early fifties and the attack on the intellectuals following the "hundred flowers" campaign of 1957. The leaders initially proclaimed that it was their objective to transform a weak and traditionally backward China into a militarily strong, modern, industrial state. Economic progress in the years of rehabilitation following 1949 was impressive. They succeeded in curbing inflation, restoring the transportation network, and rebuilding many of the industrial plants destroyed during...

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