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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (256389)	5/17/2002 9:59:15 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Rich, I agree with you about Truman. But defense policy of the United States from 1945 to 1950 (51?), was (at the advent of war) to drop nuclear bombs on an enemy's industrial/population centers till they surrendered. This is why His Administration cancelled the first CVA/Supercarrier (the USS United States) in favor of a nuclear bomber fleet. The belief of his Secretary of Defense was, that the aircraft carrier: was obsolete, expensive, too vulnerable, and basically unneeded in the new reality of nuclear war (the Navy did not agree, and this lead to the "Revolt of the Admirals"). Maybe because Truman actually (I believe) experienced combat, he was looking for a way of sparing the U.S. soldier from the horrors of combat. It does seem that he didn't find combat as romantic as Teddy Roosevelt.