The United States Moves across the Pacific: The A.B.C.'s of the American Problem in the Western Pacific and the Far East Kenneth Scott Latourette

1946 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-370
Author(s):  
Rixford K. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Western Pacific

Fixing the Far East Air Forces and Creating the Pacific Air Forces

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Laslie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Final Rank

Kuter left Maxwell to take command of the Far East Air Forces (FEAF). As Lieutenant General Kuter flew to his new assignment he was promoted to full general shortly after midnight on May 29, 1955. For an officer whose first flight was in a bi-plane, the importance of assuming his ultimate final rank on a trans-oceanic flight was surely not lost on him. During his career, the United States Army Air Corps had transitioned to a truly global and independent Air Force capable flying Kuter rather comfortably to his new assignment. The Air Force, like Kuter had fully matured and reached a pinnacle thought impossible as little as a decade ago. Kuter had grown with this Air Force, molding it, organizing it, shaping it and giving it the ability to do span the globe. General Kuter helped to reorganize the command and transitioned it to the newly created Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), becoming the new unit’s first commander.

International Organization For Colonial Development

1951 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Baker Fox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Military Aid ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Military Security

The contrast between brave American words in support of colonial aspirations and United States military aid in support of colonial powers putting down native insurrection is painfully sharp. Checking the spread of Soviet imperialism and liquidating the remnants of old-style European imperialism are objectives which seem to stand in the way of each other. Military security can apparently be purchased only at the price of popular hostility in the colonial world. And friendship may prove unpurchasable at any price.Foreign policy making always involves a reconciliation of not wholly compatible goals, but the dilemma which United States colonial policy poses in Asia is peculiarly distasteful. What we face there today we might tomorrow face in Africa or the Pacific islands. Some action has to be improvised in the Far East at once. But this crisis also requires the United States to remove the conditions which will present similar predicaments elsewhere in the future.

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