America Is In Danger By General Curtis E. LeMay Funk & Wagnalls, $5.95 America Is In Danger represents General LeMay’s practical pragmatic appraisal of this country’s security, rounded out by General Smith’s fine sense of history. It is a damning expose of Secretary McNamara’s obsession with cost effectiveness as a substitute for sound military doctrine, graphically showing the decline of our nuclear superiority vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. General LeMay, speaking from experience, explains how the doctrine of civilian control of the military has been misinterpreted as a requirement to ignore the sound military advice of our top military men and to substitute doctrine based on wishful thinking. In a very comprehensive manner, he lays out the strategic situation, deterrence, nuclear proliferation and military superiority.
His analysis of the anti-nuclear movement is very timely today in view of the latest moves by President Johnson to encourage talks with the Soviet Union that will hopefully lead toward nuclear disarmament. Starting with the physical scientists who unleashed the horrible genie of nuclear energy and some of whom feel morally responsible for putting the genie back in the bottle, General LeMay explains that the anti-nuclear movement is a highly charged emotional cause that has attracted many other groups. The peace organizations, and of course Communists and fellow travelers, find that this movement fits well with their aim of weakening America. However, so have many able and well intentioned politicians, diplomats and business men. As a matter of fact, almost every walk of life is represented. These are all people with a crusading zeal to do away with nuclear weapons and save the world from nuclear war.
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