USMC Officer, Cold War Military Paranoia
USMC Officer, Cold War Military Paranoia
On Preview Cassette 210171 C MS/CUs unidentified white male United States Marine Corps officer (either general or colonel; can t see pins on epaulets) speaking to off-screen reporters: "The basic thrust of the challenge is that the Soviet Union, somewhere back in the late 1950s, and accelerated by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, has made a very strong effort in developing not only their naval force but their total maritime strength. The Soviet Union, for example, in 1955 ranked about 21st in terms of total dead-weight tonnage among maritime nations and they have climbed to a point now where they re just behind us. They have been building at a rate over the last five years of about a million tons per year. Their maritime fleet is increasing greatly, and certainly, eventually they will be a challenge to this regard. They may even surpass U.S. maritime tonnage within the next 2-3 years." Military Cold War paranoia speech.