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Rare 1960s Department of Defense film examining America’s military posture against expanding communist aggression worldwide. Features Secretary Robert McNamara’s historic briefings, spectacular missile and nuclear tests, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Vietnam escalation, and U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic.
• Opening titles and dramatic montage of global communist advances
• Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara news conference on communist aggression
• Military funeral at Arlington National Cemetery
• ICBM missile launches (Minuteman, Titan) from underground silos
• Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile test firing at sea
• Nike-Zeus and Nike-X anti-ballistic missile system tests
• Atomic bomb blast effects, Nevada Test Site (mushroom clouds, destruction)
• Underwater nuclear detonation shockwave footage
• Gulf of Tonkin incident: USS Maddox under attack (August 1964)
• U.S. Marines and 82nd Airborne deploy to Dominican Republic (Operation Power Pack, 1965)
• San Salvador earthquake relief efforts (1965)
• First major U.S. ground combat troops arrive in South Vietnam (1965)
• Vietcong guerrilla warfare and village searches
• B-52 Stratofortress bombing missions over Vietnam
• UH-1 Huey helicopter insertions and medevac operations
• Pentagon briefing room scenes with McNamara and Joint Chiefs
• Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis recap footage
• U.S. military readiness montage: carriers, fighters, tanks, troops
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