Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed ServicesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 - Legislative hearings |
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Page 33 - I do not think there is any disposition on the part of this committee to deny you needed hospital facilities there, or any other place.
Page 100 - There is an essential difference between the nontechnically trained or experienced administrator and the engineer. Administration is necessarily based on the law of averages. The pure administrator learns how people will act "on the average" and he makes decisions accordingly. Therefore, he can be promoted to ever higher positions and continue to use the "law of averages." The engineer on the other hand cannot be governed by statistical averages. Each decision he makes is concerned with a specific...
Page 240 - ... would have any choice, the ships would be requisitioned. But in a limited war, such as Vietnam, the issue is not as clear; the shipline operators, understandably, don't want to lose their place on the world trade routes and the Government doesn't want to be forced to requisition the ships it needs. Fortunately, in the present situation, we have been able to obtain the needed sealift without recourse to requisitioning, principally through the use of the unsubsidized tramp fleet and through reactivations...
Page 55 - As our potential enemies continue to improve their capabilities over, under, and on the sea, the importance of reducing our dependence on logistic support becomes increasingly critical. Certain cost effectiveness comparisons were made within the Defense Department and cited to support the contention that the advantages of nuclear propulsion in surface warships are not particularly significant. These studies, however, contain a fundamental weakness that, in the opinion of the Joint Committee, negates...
Page 54 - I understand that nuclear-powered task forces have very desirable characteristics. However, the real choice we face is not between a given number of conventional ships for one sum of money and the same number of nuclear ships for a larger sum. The choice is between a given number of conventional ships and a smaller number of nuclear ships at the same total cost.
Page 55 - These studies, however, contain a fundamental weakness that, in the opinion of the Joint Committee, negates their validity. The comparisons cited were based on the assumption that in wartime, logistic support forces will be able to operate unhampered and without losses as they do in peacetime. The defect in this analysis is immediately apparent.
Page 240 - Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I welcome the opportunity to meet with you today — to discuss the adequacy of...
Page 7 - We know from past experience (and we cannot realistically expect it to be otherwise) that, unless the operators are assured a good profit (at prices established in a tight market), their ships will not be forthcoming voluntarily in an emergency. This makes the subsidized liner fleet a very costly form of sealift for the Defense Department to hire, just when it needs it most.
Page 55 - We must plan for time of crisis. It is precisely in such situations that the superior mobility, maneuverability, and reliability of nuclear warships will give the United States an unequaled naval striking force. It is fundamentally illogical and wasteful to fit our new first line warships with powerplants that are, perhaps, already obsolete.
Page 100 - This is the very same reason I must devote so much of my own time and that of my leading technical people to administration — to the detriment of our technical work. I firmly believe that many of our technical failures can be attributed to over-administration and lack of attention to technical detail. New Department of Defense organizations have been set up and they have recruited many of their people from the small number of technical people who were still left.