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...better technology. The idea of lobbing shells through a mobile, rifled cannon hasn't changed much since World War I. Its goal remains to disrupt, not destroy, the enemy. But with every war, new kinds of ever cheaper, ever smarter munitions--guided precisely into their targets by satellites or aircraft--become the kings of the battlefield. They can kill, not merely scare, the enemy...
...than combative 60 Minutes reporter MIKE WALLACE and the chest-thumping U.S. Marine Corps. Unfortunately for fans of hand-to-hand combat, a battle between the two parties has escalated only to a war of words. Within days of a crash of the military's troubled V-22 Osprey aircraft, Wallace attempted to contact the pilot's widow. "I did what any reporter would do," Wallace said. "I made a polite, sensitive call." The officer's family and the Marines disagree. In a letter to CBS executives obtained by the Washington Post, General James Jones wrote that Wallace's "tenacity...
...their own game. In the late 1980s, he took over as CEO of Alcoa, a company that had just about given up on aluminum as a reliable line of business. But O'Neill refocused Alcoa on its core products, made a huge push for workplace safety, sold its corporate aircraft and hacked away at decades of hierarchy to help encourage ideas from the bottom up. He worked out of a 9-ft. by 9-ft. cubicle on the top floor of the Pittsburgh, Pa., headquarters. "It's a pretty nice cubicle," said a friend, "but it's still a cubicle...
...More critically, it's not ready for military missions: It hasn't been approved for the vigorous maneuvers required in combat and lacks the required gun, and Marines can't rappel from it via ropes as required. It also has problems common to cheap cars if not $87 million aircraft: The doors are hard to open, endangering passengers and crew if they need to evacuate quickly; the heating and cooling system isn't sufficient to keep those on board comfortable; and it lacks any bathroom facilities for its ocean-crossing missions...
...early word from the Pentagon today is that if this latest crash has the same cause as April's - i.e., the hand-picked pilots inadvertently let the aircraft slip into a deadly situation from which they could not recover - the MV-22 may be in a fatal dive itself...