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Examines the proposal of the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon to improve the nation's nuclear counterforce capability against Russia and its implications for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Rationale behind the proposal; Changes in U.S. strategic policy in the late 1950s and 1960s; Description of the triad of strategic offensive forces held by the U.S.; Categories of programs proposed in the 1975 U.S. defense budget.

Speculates the chances of Senator Eugene McCarthy's victory in primaries in Illinois. Views expressed by people during McCarthy's campaign in Chicago; Schedules of campaigns of McCarthy in the state; Importance of preferential voting for McCarthy; Strategy of McCarthy to use every resource during his campaign in order to reach every voter in the state; View of McCarthy that the state needs an income policy for the poor; Comparison of the position of McCarthy and Senator Edmund Muskie in preferential primary in the state; Opinion expressed by McCarthy regarding his Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.

Reports on the strategies used by the U.S. soldiers to fight off a large unit of Viet Cong guerrillas in Saigon, Vietnam. Details on the operation plans of the soldiers; Number of air troops deployed; Counter offense made by the guerrillas; Information that the day following the night of the attack, and in the following days, Vietnamese troops streamed into Plei Mrong and the surrounding jungles.

Argues on the nuclear strategy of the administration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy as of September 1962. Attempts of the administration to overcome the nuclear dilemma; Details of the controlled response nuclear strategy outlined by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara at Ann Arbor, Michigan in June 1962; Factors that prompted the timing and method of announcing the no-cities nuclear strategy; Objective of a nuclear war.

Presents information on the defense and disarmament program of the U.S. Revision in the scope and direction of national security policy of the U.S.; Emphasis on guerrilla warfare; View that there has not been much change in the defense policy of the U.S. administration under the leadership of U.S. President John F. Kennedy; Opinion that the Kennedy administration has instituted important changes in military strategy.

Focuses on the prospect and psychology of Richard M. Nixon, U.S. Vice President, after getting presidential candidature of the Republican Party for the U.S. presidential election. Description of the mental state of Nixon after withdrawal of Nelson Rockefeller as contender for Republican candidature; Beginning of the political career of Nixon with frustration; Failure of Nixon as an politician in the U.S. politics; Starting of Nixon's campaign with efforts to build up the party organization; Policy of Nixon to divide his opposition party members; Reason behind Nixon's failure to handle the economic conditions; Decline in the position of Nixon during his presidential campaign term.

Highlights the conference of the American Ordnance Association (AOA) at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida regarding weapons and military strategy to be used by the U.S. armed forces for future wars. Objectives of AOA; Theme set by president of AOA John R. Allison for the conference; Need to create new non-nuclear effective weapons that could detect war at the lowest levels; Weapons used in the bombing in Vietnam.

The article focuses on the Vietnam War in 1965 relative to the alleged continuous presence of U.S. armed forces in South Vietnam despite the weakening Communist Viet Cong. It points out U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's plan of increasing its military support in the country, which sparks the issue that several South Vietnam soldiers were quitting to let the U.S. pursue the war. Meanwhile, it discusses events depicting the strategies of U.S. troops which resulted to the alleged temporary victory.

Presents news concerning world politics. Effect of the Allied offensive in the western front on the Germans' war strategy; Ways by which international finance can be made as a practical means by which public opinion may be brought to bear within the limits of a strict technical neutrality; Implication of the opposition to the draft of the New York constitution on the character of the state's voting population; Order of expulsion of the Jews and suspension of the Jewish press implemented in Germany.

This article presents news including an evaluation of the psychology of the German defense in World War II by studying a map of Germany as Adolf Hitler has redrawn it. Also discussed is the lack of evidence that proves that the German troops have abandoned their positions in Greece and nearby islands as suggested and the emergence of the Japanese term “basic sea area,” which refers to the land-locked area that the Japanese require in order to maintain their empire.

This article presents news including the invasion of Germany from the west with a stride by the United States army that raises hopes for the end of the war. Also discussed are the military efforts of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, which has continually forced the German army to modify their own strategic plans and the divisions that make up the German Nineteenth Army holding the Channel coast.

This article presents news including the unnecessary speech made by General Dwight D. Eisenhower that the United States is destined to win the was sooner or later, the land-bound strategy of the Russians and the sea-bound strategy of the Western allies in the war, and the sedition trials in Washington, D.C. of prewar pro-fascists in the United States.

Focuses on the training of army personnel for the real assault task. Lectures on amphibious techniques and vocabulary of technical words and phrases referring to the period between the initial landings and the launching of the main counter-attack; Curriculum of thoroughness and intensive invasion preparations; Practice of loading with each vehicle having an assigned deck space, pushing a trailer or a gun; Expertise of driving and driver-directing; Exercise of signaling and waterproofing of radios and vehicles; Training at Assault Training Center, with cold, uncomfortable and muddy conditions to give a real picture of war; Teaching of strategies for counter attack against the German forces.

Focuses on advertising in wartime. Report that advertising in all media, has increased about 60 percent over the prewar level, according to the U.S. States Department of Commerce; Usage of the unspent advertising money for war; Observation of the vice-president of the National Association of Manufacturers regarding the trend of advertising; Slogan of the War Advertising Council; Significance of the promotion of war campaigns; Discussion of the national advertising in magazines, newspapers and on the networks.

Focuses on the problems that U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower dealt with when his troops campaigns in North Africa. Account of events surrounding the speculations of a civil war between Henri Philippe Pétain's loyalists and French patriots in Algeria led by general Henri Girourd; Measures taken by Eisenhower to deal with the chances of native mutiny in Algeria amidst anti-ally propaganda by the Axis powers within the Arabs; Use of French police force to circumvent the activities of German and Italian agents; Efforts of Eisenhower to deal with the German forces landing from the borders of Sicily, Italy; Account of the popularity of Eisenhower among French and British troops; Events surrounding Eisenhower's plans to invade Italy.

Highlights the importance of a friendship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Reasons of both moral and military nature behind the friendship; Enmity towards a third party is a transitory ground for friendship; Strategy favoring towards the friendship; Need to deepen and extend this friendship; Difficulties in creating this friendship; Sharing a common social philosophy by the Communists and the Catholics; Requirement of a common understanding between Catholic Christendom and Soviet communism.

Focuses on the issues related to the World War II around the world. Strategy of Japanese to invade the United States so that the Allies suffer disadvantage of two-front war; Establishment of a single overall agency to direct war production and manpower; Possibility for a separate peace between the Allied forces and Italy being discarded by the Secretary of State of the U.S.; Discussion about probable route to be proceeded by the Allies around the Mediterranean region; Image of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain despite of confusion of the political picture in France and North Africa; Condition of French refugees and people under control of the Nazis; Need for the Allies to free native Jews and American occupants in French North Africa; Criticism of the Gallup Poll for wrong prediction about election results; Workers to be taken out of civilian occupations for war production or military services.

Focuses on military strategies to be applied by the U.S., in order to win the Second World War. Discussion on the Caporetto battle, and the practical elimination of Italy from that war; Lessons learnt by the nation from its failure to destroy German army in Libya; Need for the nation to achieve unification of military strategy and supply and the clearest possible flow of thought between the both; Weaknesses of the U.S. Army.

Focuses on the establishment of a "new European order" by Nazis, as part of their strategy to win the war and shape the peace. Failure of French Emperor Napoleon I as there was no economic basis for the unity of his empire; Report that the military technology of Napoleon's age made it impossible for one master nation to hold a monopoly of force; View economic disunity of tariff barriers and small exclusive national markets as the reason for Europe's troubles, which were made worse by political disunity; Integration of Europe economically by making Germany the great market foodstuffs and raw materials and the supplier of industrial goods; Use of Nazi theory of racial inequality to justify slavery in Neuropa; Creation of a new all-European aristocracy.

Presents an insight to the strength and strategy of the European powers in case of outbreak of war. Information on two opposing camps, namely, Axis powers including Germany, Italy, Hungary and Spain and Allies including Great Britain, France, Poland, Rumania, Greece and Turkey; Comparisons of military strength are stated in terms of divisions, which are fully organized battle-units of infantry, artillery and auxiliary branches; Statement that in naval field the advantage is in favor of the Allies, however the Axis has air superiority; View that Allied control of the oceans would make it possible to bring resources, both in men and supplies, from every part of the Great British and French Empires, and from neutral countries while the Axis powers, from the very outset of the war, would be dependent entirely upon Continental resources; Possibility of victory seems inclined toward the Allies.

This article analyzes the U.S. policy of containment towards the domination of Soviet Union, after nearly four years of its launch in March, 1947, with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine. The strategy of containment stands at the center of current U.S. policy. Its beginning marked the end of the effort to get along with the Soviet Union an effort pursued with ever-diminishing returns and ever-increasing skepticism during the first year and a half of the U.S. government. At its inception, this policy aroused serious misgivings among most left-of-center opinion and a few independent commentators like Walter Lippmann. Such misgivings were based on a number of predictions as to the consequences of the containment strategy.

Russia's absence from the Quebec meeting has raised questions on Far Eastern strategy. China's strategic position in the war against Japan--comparable to Russia's position in the war against Germany--would seem to require Chinese participation in planning the grand strategy of the war in the Far East. China is potentially a strong military nation, but despite the sacrifices of six years of warfare its power is still largely potential. On the few occasions when the Chinese have had adequate air support they have shown an offensive capacity that should be recognized in planning the future strategy of the war against Japan.

The article focuses on issues regarding the integration of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) into a deterrent strategy built around manned aircraft. It says that the U.S. ponders on a workable strategy that could provide maximum protection for the public and discourage attacks from enemies, considering the management of long-range missiles in manned aircraft. The Air Force and its civilian advisers, along with the Army and Navy, struggle on the kind of defense strategy for the nation.

The article discusses the concept of game theory, a mathematical technique for the analysis of conflict. Game theory is also known as the science of conflict. Its can be derived from the powerful mathematical apparatus that it can bring to bear on the strategic analysis of certain conflict situations. The theory is now applied in a different type of conflict technically called a game. It is only concerned with the logical aspect of strategy. The application of the theory to various games is presented.

The article offers world news briefs for the week of January 8, 1945. Particular focus is given to events pertaining to World War II, such as the criticizing of U.S. military strategy, the political character of Germany's military strategy, and the impact of the German army's control of French ports. The article also discusses political prisoners being held by the British in India, and racial tension in Louisville, Kentucky.

This article discusses news including the landing of the Seventy-seventh Navy Division behind the Japanese lines at Ormoc, the Japanese plan to prevent U.S. troops from accessing the coast of China while the Japanese military sets up a land-communication line across southern China, and the announcement that China has no facilities for making modern weapons for the war.

This article presents information on various socio-political developments involving the U.S. and China. The opening of the all new ledo road will play a significant role in the developments relevant to war on the Asiatic continent. It is observed that the capturing of Wanting province in the China-Burma border will be completed within a few days. Plans have already been made for placing traffic on the new road under strict American-Chinese military control, thus preventing the corruption that minimized the effectiveness of the old Burma Road. It is also assumed that direct communication with Burma may also be reestablished in the near future.

The article focuses on the speculation of the expansion of the Viatnamese war in Cambodia and other countries. It is stated that the public was surprised when U.S. President Richard Nixon disclosed on television about the possible expansion of the War. It is mentioned that at the time he broke the news nearly 50,000 U.S. and South Viatnamese troops were involved in the strikes and was affecting the neighbour countries too. It mentions the infiltration strategy followed by the U.S. Army and the denial of any such action by the administration. The administration kept insisting that U.S. retreat is underway since June 1969 at the time when Nixon informed about the withdrawal of 543,000 troops in Vietnam.

Focuses on recent political developments in the world. Notification given to the U.S. diplomats abroad that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties; Military strategy of Japan regarding the annexation of the province of Jehol; Increase in the military and naval expenditure of the Japanese government; Announcement made by the Chinese Red armies in a manifesto addressed to the people of China; Reaction of the French government toward the Italian proposal for a customs union with Albania; Step taken by U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover to prevent international shipments of arms and ammunition; Information on the bill passed by the U.S. Congress stating conditions under which the Philippines should be given freedom; Confiscation of the American press in Cuba; Reference to the code of ethics of the new Edison Electric Institute in the U.S.; Depreciation of the value of securities in the U.S.; Details about the U.S. Dies bill which extends the present definition of Communism.

The article focuses on the responsibilities of General Peyton C. March as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. It is said that much of the success of the American war operations can be attributed the efforts of March. An overview of his strategy is presented, which is the continuation of the movement of men and munitions to France and outmaneuvering the enemy. His efforts in developing a staff of experts on handling troop shipments, as well as training and supplying the army are also discussed.

Discusses the failure of the Allied campaign in the northern Russian city of Archangel to secure much of the supplies to be guarded. Anticipation of the Bolsheviks of the landings by the removal of all railroads and stores were sent far enough to be secured for the future uses of the Soviet government; Offensive of the replenished Bolshevik troops to force the invaders out of the country; Attribution of the author on the failure of the campaign to the poor management strategies and antagonism on the part of the soldiers; Assertion of the author that the real cause of the debacle is the silence of the government and the resentment at being at war in a futile fight against nobody when and for nothing in particular when the rest of the world had stopped fighting; Experiences of the author in his trip to Archangel; Proclamation of the anti-Bolshevik forces that all Bolshevik sympathizers should leave the city; Establishment of the so-called Military Intervention and the suspension of all expressions of interests and democratic rights; Accompaniment of the conscription for the army was labor conscription in the Military Intervention; Executions of suspected Bolsheviks; Suppression of the mutinies of Russian soldiers; Pullout of foreign troops, embassies, and consulates from Russia.

Cites various shortcomings of the Allied forces regarding the statement of war aims and upon a joint economic and diplomatic policy. Reasons behind the call from Allies to the Central powers for a joint statement to clear their war objectives; Possible benefits from a joint declaration from Allies with respect to their differences; Dependence on the kind of the world the Allies propose to answer the questions regarding their war policy; Citation of anti-German alliance as a dependent factor that can lead to political unity of Allies.

Discusses the counter attack of the American and French troops to the offensive strategy of Germany. Negative effect of the rate of the losses in the German army to their morale; Replacement of the German personnel by prisoners of war and by workmen recruited in Russian territory; Strategic reasons which decided the German staff to temporarily suspend operations; Effectiveness of the cooperation of the Allied forces; Importance of inter-Allies unity of command.

Comments on various social and political issues. Acceptance by the Allied army to the challenge of the German High Command according to its strategic purpose; Moral effect of the U.S. participation to the war on the American nation; Appointment of French General Ferdinand Foch as the commander-in-chief of the Allied armies; Mental adjustment of the English army to the difference between the Great War and to the Napoleonic war; Differences of opinion between the U.S. and Japan on intervention in Siberia.