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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, July 3, 1959
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
.1
Lack of National Direction
Said to Be Major Weakness
Happenings that affect the
future of every individual; Na
tional and international prob
lems inseparable from local
welfare.
“Has the balance of power in to
day’s world shifted to Soviet Rus
sia and away from the U. S.? Would
Russia win and the U. S. and her
Allies iose if war should break
out now or in the foreseeable fu
ture?”
These enormous questions, which
are being asked throughout the
world, lead off a U. S. News &
World Report article entitled: “So-
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viet Threats: Power or Bluff?” In
seeking answers the magazine went
to military and diplomatic leaders
both here at home and in key capi
tals overseas. Here are its findings:
First, we are still ahead of the
Russians in the ability to wage total
war—that is, nuclear war in which
the ultimate weapons would be em
ployed to bring absolute destruc
tion to an enemy. We would, how
ever, sustain devastating damage
on our own side even in victory.
Second, the Russians have an ov
erwhelming edge in the ability to
wage non-nuclear wars—that is, so-
called limited wars in which con
ventional weapons and only the
small tactical atomic weapons
would be employed. Her armies are
far larger than those of ourselves
and our Allies and are powerfully
supported with air power.
Our military leaders think it
will be some time before Russia
will have enough long-range ballis
tic missiles to cancel out our pres
ent superiority in intercontinental
manned bombers. It quotes a top-
level general as saying this about
all-out war: “Assuming exhaustion
of nuclear stockpiles in the early
exchanges, both U. S. and Soviet
Russia would lose their major pop
ulation centers and the bases need
ed for support of large-scale mili
tary forces operating beyond their
borders. If, under those circum
stances, the concept of ‘residual
superiority’ can be entertained, the
margin probably would lie with the
United States because of its great
er and more efficient industrial and
transportation system.
“The problem of the U. S. then
would be twofold: to find the will
to go on with the war; to reorgan
ize so the war could be pressed un
til the enemy surrendered.”
At the same time, many military
men are doubtful if the total weap
ons would be used in another war.
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Both sides, they think, would
shrink from unleashing them and,
perhaps, ending civilization as we
understand it.
U. S. News also quotes an Ameri
can authority as saying: “It is in
the realm of national strategy and
supporting military strategy that
the balance of power seems unmis
takably to be in favor of the Rus-
sions.
“They seek destruction of the
non-Communist world and gear all
strategy to that concept. The U.
S. seeks only to contain the Com
munist nations and has no plan be
yond that. . .” There is, in other
words, a lack of national direction
on our side—and that, says the mili
tary men, becomes an increasingly
serious weakness in our position.
Finally, U. S. News presents an
interesting British view of U. S.-
Soviet rivalry. It is based on the
belief that a delicate balance is
being approached, if it does not
exist now'. Specifically: “In a few
years, the British experts conclude,
the difference between American
and Russian thermonucl^r striking
power will be academic. Both will
possess enough to totally devastate
the other. Then the growing ‘nu
clear stalemate,’ they believe, may
be complete.”
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