...Nation or this administration. No other challenge is more deserving of our every effort and energy. Too long we have fixed our eyes on traditional military...single missile or the crossing of a single border. We intend to profit from this lesson. We intend to reexamine and reorient our forces of all kinds —...

...long we have fixed our eyes on traditional military needs, on armies prepared to cross borders, on missiles poised for flight. Now it should be clear...single missile or the crossing of a single border. Now, contrast that with the testimony we have just heard from the former Director of the CIA, that...

...long we have fixed our eyes on traditional military needs, on armies prepared to cross borders, on missiles poised for flight. Now it should be clear...single missile or the crossing of a single border. We intend to profit from this lesson. We intend to reexamine and reorient our forces of all kinds —...

...military needs, on armies prepared to cross borders, on missiles poised for flight. Now it should he clear that this is no longer enough — that our security...single missile or the crossing of a single border. JOHN F. KENNEDY We still tend to conceive of national security almost entirely as a state of armed...

...the allies disheartened. Kennedy had warned the American Society of Newspaper Editors early in 1961 that "our security may be lost piece by piece, country...single missile or the crossing of a single border." Pointing up the centrality of world opinion and morale, he reminded Congress in May 1961 that "it is...

...this bitter struggle reached its climax in the late 1950s and the early 1960s," though it might end "without the firing of a single missile or the crossing of a single border," since the losers would be "the self-indulgent, the soft societies," whether or not they had the bigger...

...cautioned that the war of words was real. "Our security may be lost piece by piece," said the president, "country by country, without the firing of a single missile or the crossing of a single border." Political propaganda was a key part of Communist world strategy, and both Radio Moscow and the Voice...

...multiplied. Still, despite the obvious reluctance to intervene, Vietnam's importance was never in doubt. "Our security may be lost piece by piece, country...single missile or the crossing of a single border," Kennedy told one audience.1 Like Truman and Eisenhower before him, he and just about everyone else...

...long we have fixed our eyes on traditional military needs, on armies prepared to cross borders, on missiles poised for flight. Now it should be clear...single missile or the crossing of a single border." He concluded: "We intend to reexamine and reorient our forces of all kinds — our tactics and our...

...voices in Asia and Latin America — these messages are all the same. . . . Now it should be clear . . . that our security may be lost piece by piece, country...firing of a single missile or the crossing of a single border.41 Two years later, after the unsuccessful invasion of the Bay of Pigs and confrontation with...