Drew Middleton

Its officers claim they have the best peacetime Army in history—but can it last?

Do not let presidential politicking fool you, says this outspoken advocate of new weapons systems and longrange arms development: the United States “is taking too long to produce the weapons necessary for maintaining the present precarious military equilibrium“ of the Soviet-American seesaw.

In Arab capitals, a reporter discovers a newfound confidence. In Israel, he senses a more realistic attitude toward the Arabs. But there remains a brooding uncertainty that peace and prosperity will ever be more than a Middle Eastern mirage.

How an ostensible stalemate has changed the balance of power between Israel and the Arabs, and heightened the danger that another war between them will be a wider one.

“Oh, boy, oh, joy, where do we go from here? Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey City pier.”