14-06-2013, 05:03 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I think Eisenhower was also highly resistant to sending in US troops (except for Lebanon in 1958), but unfortunately he overcompensated in the other direction by building enough nukes to blow up the planet.
Didn't Ike inherit the massive US military build-up from Truman and his Sec of Def Robert Lovett?

