Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massive scale of death and destruction" is cited as evidence of the violation of the supposed "norm of proportionality" in the use of force. Yet it must be noted that many of the initial, unsubstantiated casualty figures have been discredited as being gross exaggerations of the actual total by the Palestinian Red Crescent, headed by Yasser Arafat's brother...
...Actual wars, in Lebanon and the Falkland Islands, made correspondents out of many more readers. Five covers recounting the fighting in Lebanon brought 2,461 letters. It soon became clear that events had triggered a sharp shift away from the support TIME readers have traditionally given Israel. More than 700 wrote after the Oct. 4 cover story on the Beirut massacre, "Israel, a Shaken Nation." Sentiment was 3 to 1 against the Israelis. "My sympathy for Israel's struggles is wearing thin. I am revulsed beyond sympathy," said one. Another agreed: "The underdogs have become the dogs...
...waste and mismanagement in military spending, whether for major strategic systems like the B-l bomber or basic weapons such as tanks and rifles. The reformers argue that new systems should be carefully examined not only for what they can do on paper, but what they can do in actual combat-and at what cost. The central question: how to get more bang for the buck...
...more than 95% reliable. They turn out to be less than 60% reliable. A review by the Defense Science Board in 1981 is blunt in its criticism of such built-in electronic testing devices: "While these promises looked good on paper and were incorporated into almost all specifications, the actual field performance has been nothing short of a disaster...
...producing a fireball. That is not a theoretical danger. The M113 also is made of aluminum, and M113s carrying Israeli troops went up in flames in Lebanon. During the invasion, Israeli troops rode on the exposed areas of the M113-not inside it. Since the Bradley is designed for actual combat, it is far more likely to be hit, and since its armor is twice as thick, there is twice as much aluminum to vaporize...