Biography of general maxwell taylor thirteen days

Thirteen Days

President Kennedy:
Okay - let's have it.

NPIC Photo Interpreter:
Gentlemen, as most of you now know, a U-2 over Cuba Sunday morning took a series of disturbing photographs. Our analysis at NPIC indicates that the Soviet Union has followed up its conventional weapons build-up in Cuba with the introduction of surface-to-surface, medium-range ballistic missiles, or MRBMs. Our official estimate at this time is that the missile system is the SS-4 'Sandal'. We do not believe that the missiles are as yet operational. Iron Bark reports that the SS-4 can deliver a three-megaton nuclear weapon 1, miles. So far we've identified 32 missiles serviced by about 3, men, undoubtedly all Soviet personnel. Our cities and military installations in the southeast as far north as Washington, D.C., are in range of these weapons, and in the event of a launch would have only five minutes warning.

General Marshall Carter:
Five minutes, gentlemen.

Gen. Maxwell Taylor:
In those five minutes, they could kill 80 million Americans - and destroy a significant percentage of our bomber bases, degrading our retaliatory options. The Joint Chiefs' consensus, Mr. President, is that thi

XX–XXAssistant Secretary, War Department General StaffXX–XXChief of Staff, 82nd Airborne DivisionXX–Commanding Officer Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division [Sicily]XX-XX–XX-XXMember Allied Control Commission Italy–Commanding Officer Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division–Commanding General st Airborne Division [Northwestern Europe]–Commanding General st Airborne Division [Northwestern Europe]–Superintendent of US Military Academy West Point–Deputy Chief of Staff, European Command–Deputy Commanding General US Army Europe–Chief of Staff, US Army Europe–Chief of Staff, European Command–Commanding General US Sector Berlin [Germany]–Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations (G-3), US Army–Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations & Administration, US Army–XX-XXCommanding General 8th Army [Korea]–Commander in Chief Far East–Commander in Chief UN Forces in Korea–Chief of Staff, US ArmyXX-XXRetired

Maxwell Taylor () var en amerikansk militærofficer og USA's ambassadør til Syd Vietnam i Taylor blev født i Missouri, dimitterede fra gymnasiet og bestod optagelsesprøver til United States Military Academy i West Point. Han tjente som ingeniør- og artilleriofficer, før han omskolede sig i lingvistik. Taylor, en intelligent, veltalende og diplomatisk officer, opnåede hurtige forfremmelser under Anden Verdenskrig og steg fra major til brigadegeneral på mindre end tre år. Han tilbragte det meste af krigen i USA, men tjente også i Italien og under D Day-landingerne. Efter Anden Verdenskrig tjente Taylor som superintendent ved West Point, allieret kommandør i Vestberlin og chef for den ottende armé i Koreakrigen. Fra til hans første pensionering i var Taylor US Army Staff Chief.

I udgav Taylor Den usikre trompet, der skitserer hans synspunkter om amerikansk militærstrategi under Kold krig. kommende amerikanske præsident John F. Kennedy var imponeret over Taylors ideer og kaldte ham tilbage til at tjene som rådgiver. I oktober sendte Kennedy Taylor til Sydvietnam for at undersøge og vurdere situationen der. Taylor vendte tilbage og opfordrede til indsættelse af en 8, mand s

Minutes of the th Meeting of the National Security Council0

Washington, October 20, , p.m.

PARTICIPANTS

  • The President
  • Attorney General
  • CIA
    • John A. McCone, Director
    • Mr. Ray Cline
    • Mr. Arthur Lundahl
    • Mr. Chamberlain
  • Defense
    • Robert S. McNamara, Secretary
    • Roswell Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary
    • Paul Nitze, Assistant Secretary (ISA)
  • JCS
    • General Maxwell D. Taylor, USA, Chairman
  • OEP
    • Edward A. McDermott, Director
  • State
    • Dean Rusk, Secretary
    • George Ball, Under Secretary
    • U. Alexis Johnson, Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs
    • Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the UN
    • Edwin Martin, Assistant Secretary, Inter-American Affairs
    • Llewellyn E. Thompson, Ambassador-at-Large
  • Treasury
    • Douglas Dillon, Secretary
  • White House
    • McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
    • Theodore Sorensen, Special Counsel
    • Kenneth O’Donnell, Special Assistant to the President
    • Bromley Smith, Executive Secretary, National Security Council

Intelligence Briefing

The first twenty minutes were spent in the presentation and discussion of photographic intelligence establishing the presence in Cuba of Soviet intermediate-range and medium-ra

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