flexible response in a sentence
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- Kennedy's strategy of flexible response, managed by Robert McNamara, was aimed to reduce the possibility of war by miscalculation.
- Much of President John F . Kennedy's flexible response policies came from the position papers drawn up by this group.
- Fundamentally, the notion of flexible response was to " increase the ability to confine the response to non-nuclear weapons ".
- President John F . Kennedy abandoned the policy of massive retaliation during the Cuban Missile Crisis in favor of flexible response.
- Saxbee is also an academic writer having published " Liberal Evangelism : a flexible response to the decade " in 1994.
- McDonald's success in the 1960s was in large part due to the company's skillful marketing and flexible response to customer demand.
- It is defense economics without algebra, says a friend, tracing the alliance's mission from mutual assured destruction, to flexible response, to peace-keeping.
- By the late 1960s they moved to a war strategy that lessened the dependence on nuclear weapons, resembling the West's flexible response.
- From 1967 however, under'flexible response', the aim became to build up conventional forces so that, if possible, nuclear weapons might not be needed.
- That policy was abandoned in the latter years of the Cold War by one of " flexible response " to Warsaw Pact attacks.