NARRATOR TELLS OF THE POTENT FORCE OF U.S. ARMS THAT HELD THE COMMUNISTS AT BAY DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS & IN GERMANY DURING BERLIN CRISIS,
EFFECTIVELY DETERRING NUCLEAR WAR BY VIRTUE OF IT'S STRENGTH. (THE COLD WAR)

KHRUSHCHEV GESTURES WITH HIS ARM IN SPEECH AT THE UNITED NATIONS. MONTAGE FLEEING EAST GERMAN REFUGEES ENTERING THE WEST IN DROVES.

CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: "TIBET TORN BY REVOLT". THOUSANDS OF TIBET REFUGEES ON ROAD TO INDIA TO ESCAPE THE RED TERROR.

CASTRO WAVES HIS ARMS IN SPEECH TO MASSES AS HE BETRAYS OWN REVOLUTION AND EMBRACES COMMUNISM.

NEW YORK SUNDAY NEWS HEADLINE: "RED CHINESE
INVADE INDIA". MONTAGE- INDIAN CROWDS RALLY IN
NEW DELHI. YOUNG MEN ARE WEIGHED IN PUBLIC FOR
THE ARMY. MS- DOCTOR INSPECTS THEIR THIN BODIES
AS THEY LINE UP

NARRATOR TELLS OF ARMY'S CAPABILITIES TO CONDUCT "NASTY LITTLE WARS" AS WELL AS PREPARATION FOR BIG ONES WITH OBLIGATIONS TO NATO, U. N. AND OTHER ALLIANCES

"HAWK", NIKE "AJAX", "SERGEANT", NIKE "HERCULES", SHOWN AT MISSILE SITES THROUGHOUT WESTERN EUROPE AS PART OF OUR DETERRENCE FORCE.

MONTAGE- SPECIAL FORCES ADVISORS TRAIN VIETNAMESE
VILLAGERS.

MONTAGE RUSSIAN MALE AND FEMALE "TECHNICIANS" ARRIVE IN CUBA.
CUBAN WOMAN PINS A MEDAL ON KHRUSHCHEV IN CUBA.

NEW YORK WORLD TELEGRAM HEADLINE: "REBELS REPORTED CRUSHED BY CASTRO'S TANKS, PLANES", IN THE BAY OF PIGS FIASCO.

HUGE VICTORY PARADES IN CUBA WITH LARGE PHOTOS OF CASTRO CARRIED BY THE CROWDS.

JFK SPEAKS TO CONGRESS ASKS FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO MEET WORLD MILITARY NEEDS

EAST BERLIN POLICE BEGIN ERECTING THE BERLIN WALL ON AUGUST 13, 1961

NATO FLAG WITH THE EIFFEL TOWER IN BACKGROUND

VILLAGE IN SOUTH VIETNAM BURNS. U. S. ADVISERS ASSIST SOUTH VIETNAMESE. SOUTH VIETNAM SOLDIERS SIT INSIDE U. S. HELICOPTER GOING ON A RAID.

PRIME MINISTER NEHRU REVIEWS HIS TROOPS.
MAKES A SPEECH TO HUGE CROWDS. OTHER INDIANS MAKE DRAMATIC APPEALS AS PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE SOLIDARITY

INDIRA GANDHI SPEAKS ON MIC TO THE CROWD.

KHRUSHCHEV WAVES HIS HAT FROM THE KREMLIN WALL DURING A MILITARY PARADE IN RED SQUARE.

AERIAL PHOTOS SHOW BUILD UP OF ICBM MISSILES IN
CUBA POINTED TOWARDS U.S.

MONTAGE U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS LAUNCH THEIR JET PLANES OFF CUBA. GROUND CREWS LOAD PLANES WITH BOMBS AND BULLETS AT HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE IN FLORIDA, AS JFK'S SPEECH IS HEARD.

JFK VISITS AIR FORCE BASE.

"ARMY IN ACTION: THE FINEST TRADITION"
HISTORY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER AND THE HABIT OF THE UNITED STATES OF DISARMING AFTER EACH CONFLICT AND PUTTING THE COUNTRY IN A POSITION OF MILITARY WEAKNESS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THROUGH WWII.

MONTAGE REENACTMENT OF COLONIAL DAYS WITH MEN BUILDING LOG CABINS AND FORTIFICATIONS.

MONTAGE REENACTED REVOLUTIONARY WAR SCENES, AND OUR FOREFATHERS MEETING TO WRITE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, BILL OF RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTION.

MONTAGE REENACTMENT PIONEER IN BUCKSKINS WALKS FORWARD WITH HIS KENTUCKY RIFLE READY, MINUTEMAN, CONTINENTAL ARMY, WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR, WWI, GI JOE OF WWII AND KOREAN WAR SOLDIERS ALL WALKING FORWARD WITH RIFLE IN HAND. HISTORY OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS

NARRATOR SPEAKS OF A COUNTRY THAT BY CHOICE HAS NEVER BEEN MILITARILY MINDED AND HOW IN WARS SUCH AS THE REVOLUTION, WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR, WWI AND WWII, WE HAD TO ACQUIRE STRENGTH.

MACARTHUR WADING ASHORE IN PHILIPPINES.
SOLDIERS WAVE JAPANESE FLAGS AND WEAPONS ON JUNGLE ISLAND. DEAD AND WOUNDED BEING CARRIED IN STRETCHERS.

DRAWING DEPICT WASHINGTON SAYING A PRAYER AT VALLEY FORGE. REENACTMENT OF HARDSHIPS SUFFERED BY SOLDIERS MARCHING DURING BLIZZARD.

MONTAGE GIS WORK OUTDOORS IN CLOTHING SUITED TO THE CLIMATE TROPICAL OR ARCTIC.

MONTAGE WWII 155MM, 8 INCH AND 250MM HOWITZERS REPRESENTED OUR ARTILLERY, ALL SHOWN BEING FIRED. IN CONTRAST A GROUND-TO-GROUND MISSILE IS FIRED.

CO-PILOT IN REAR SEAT OF WWI PLANE DROPS A BOMB, BY HAND, FROM HIS COCKPIT SEAT
BOMBS EXPLODE AMID THE TRENCHES. GERMAN AND ALLIED PLANES IN A DOG FIGHT IN WWI.

MONTAGE IN OPERATION "BIG LIFT" WHEN 15,000 COMBAT-READY U. S. SOLDIERS WERE AIRLIFTED FROM FORT HOOD, TEXAS TO GERMANY IN OCTOBER 1963

CU NARRATOR TALKS OF MAN, THE "ULTIMATE WEAPON" AND SHOWS A MODEL OF A BRAIN ON HIS DESK.

BLACK HONOR GUARD SOLDIER GUARDING THE GRAVE OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AT ARLINGTON.