Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already been raised by experts about conventional ideas of how to deploy armor and airpower on the battlefield. Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs, notes that "Soviet technology in Arab hands has consigned to history" an era in which the "tank and aircraft ruled the battlefield." The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow enabled the English foot soldier of the 14th century to overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding his Snapper [antitank missile...
Universal Lessons. This could have enormous implications for NATO. The alliance calculates the balance of strength between itself and the Warsaw Pact nations largely in terms of tanks and aircraft. NATO does not seem to have paid as much attention to antitank missiles as has the U.S.S.R. Moreover, it has generally regarded surface-to-air missiles as primarily defensive weapons. The Egyptian thrust across the Suez Canal demonstrated that these missiles can also play an offensive role, enabling an attacking force to establish and hold a beachhead. With the extremely mobile SA-6, beachheads can be expanded by slowly moving...
...flimsy," "inconclusive" and "not materially different from what was going on throughout the crisis." For example, they said that the Soviet airborne units had been on and off alert ever since the end of the war's first week and that they had always had their own aircraft for transport...
...reorganize their armies and improve officer training. Although the Egyptians expelled some 17,000 Soviet technicians and advisers in July 1972, more than 1,000 were in Egypt when the war erupted. War supplies continued to arrive with Syria receiving more than 60% of its 300 or so combat aircraft since January of this year. The Soviets tutored Egypt in the tactics that enabled its army to quickly send troops across the Suez Canal...
DURING THE LONG YEARS of the Indochina War, Thailand served as a giant aircraft carrier for the United States military, providing six bases where American bombers refueled before once again bombing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Thailand was ruled by a rightist military dictatorship--headed by Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn--that used American aid to bulwark their own positions atop Thai society...