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   (4) Our strategic plans for a shooting war and our covert devices in
the cold war must be so designed ,as mutually to complement each other.-
   (5) Administrative techniques must be modernized So that policy
can -be translated into action with the minimum of delay..
   ('6) The time fator which divides our potential strength and forces
in being must be cult downby llarge-ýsaletooling and planning efforts.,
  (7.)1- We' shouli use every method of economic warfare which. could
possibly throw the enemy off schedule or off balance.-This would have
a good psychological effect both in our camp land in the camp'of the
enemy. In othervwords, the efforts of ia "Department of Dirty Tricks"
should be commensu',ratewith that of all otheragencies.
  (8) We must ýhave a much vaster propaganda machine to tell our
story at home and abroad.
  [Here follo;ws Pa.rt II, "Specific Comments."]
Part, 4II Additional Comments
  Wemust meet- the threat of international communism': in the field

,of ideas and this means we must capitalize on our standard'of living,
th&e ro1e of the individual, ;and the fact ithat our system is based.
on a
freedom of choice. Mr. Lovett is: convinced that'we have-the latent
competence to do this job; because if we can sel levery useless article
known-to         I man i large quantities, we .should be able to: selour
Very-
ine story in largeir quntities.
-He suggested that we ned not wait for -a bbuild-upof ou material
power to accept the" challenge 6of the communists in the cold war and
Start actingF eXactly 'as thugh we Were under fire: from an invading
army. In the war in which we areprese ntly engaged, we should fight-
with no holds barre. We should findevery weak spot inthe enemy's
armor, both on the periphery and.at the center, and-hit him with any-
thing that comes to -hand. Anything we do short of an all-out effort
is inexcusable. Weshould cause them trouble wherever we can. There
are plenty of partisans and dissidents on the.enemy's borders and
withinhis' scamp who are willing to figh1,t with their liVes if we give
them some leadership and if they are convinced thaýtwe are going to-
stlck'with:the job until we have finished it.-
   The fact that the Kremlin can make up its mind and move faster
 than we ,can is' partly'due to the -difference in -our objectives, partly
 due .to the inherent nature of thedemocratic system, but also due-to'
 poor operating procedures on our side-and this last can be and must
 be co~rrected He suggested that we make a: thorough study of all eco.-
 nomic warfare possibilities, including preemptive buying. Mr.,Nitze
 said that  A greAt deal of study and a great deal.of action have been
 taken in .his. feld, ad that f romuwhat we can see now we cannot
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