Annual Report for the Year 1960 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Annual Report for the Year 1960 Events Of the past year have provided convincing evidence that the American people cannot rely completely on this country's armed forces to protect themselves from Communist domination and slavery. This is not because our military forces lack the power or the will to defend this country, but rather because the nature Of the attacks being made on the United States by its major and only significant enemy are so designed as to render conventional military forces as ineffective as possible for defense purposes. The Armed Forces Of the United States are trained and equipped to directly engage and defeat the military forces Of this country's enemies on the field Of battle, on the high seas, undersea, and in the air. They have no role or, at best, a relatively insignificant one in nonmilitary, unconventional, or political warfare. In these fields Of warfare, it Is the civilian government and population that must bear the major part of the burden of waging both defensive and Offensive operations against the attacks Of the enemy. In the foreword to the committee's Annual Report for the Year 1959 I stressed the fact that, though the vital importance Of massive military strength must not be underrated, the most urgent need Of the free world was thorough understanding of communism - its doctrine, designs, strategy, and tactics. It is my belief that this has been veri fied by events Of the past year. During this period it has been not so much military power, but rather knowledge Of communism's greatly varied and effective methods of subversion - which knowledge makes possible preventive measures and plans Of effective counterattack that has been this country's most needed and important weapon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.