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...this forgotten war is training the pilots who may have to take on Saddam better than any exercise over an Arizona desert ever could. Indeed, as President Bush hurled rhetorical thunderbolts at Saddam from a United Nations podium last week, the Iraqi leader's troops were busy firing live ammo at U.S. planes. "They shoot at us every day," Captain Patrick Driscoll said last week, hours after his F-15 dodged ground fire from Iraqi forces while flying over northern Iraq. "You can't let your guard down for a minute...
...gizmos--robots that can crawl from building to building, miniature drones that can spy around corners, acoustic sensors capable of taking out snipers--are still unproven. The hottest "new" technology at last month's war game: John Deere two-seat Gator tractors, which can zip through narrow passageways bringing ammo and supplies to the front and returning with casualties...
...city of Jalalabad. He took possession of property the Taliban had used as an ammunition dump: three buildings full of rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, tank shells and "enough AK-47 cartridges to last for 10 years," as one of his fighters told a TIME correspondent late last year. The ammo was enough to make Qadir, already rich from the opium trade, a power to be reckoned with not only in Jalalabad (where two other warlords laid claims to power in his absence) but in all of Afghanistan...
...growing disparity between U.S. and European capabilities has profound implications. NATO has always grappled with the issue of "interoperability" - whether U.S. tanks, for example, can fire Belgian ammo. Such problems can only grow as the U.S. services deploy high-tech "next-generation" weapons and adapt their war-fighting doctrines accordingly. As Europe's capabilities atrophy, dependence on America to do the dirty work will deepen. But dependence breeds resentment on both sides, and already in Europe voices can be heard decrying America's go-it-alone interventionism. Across the Atlantic the notion of a feckless Europe unable and unwilling...
...American in a Harley-Davidson cap and mirrored sunglasses raised Dave on the radio. "Shit...shit...O.K....Shit...O.K. Hold on, buddy, we're coming to get you," he said. Then, cutting the radio, he turned to his commander: "Mike is MIA. They've taken his gun and his ammo. We have another guy. He managed to kill two of them with his pistol, but he's holed up in the north side with no ammo." As a hurried discussion of tactics began, Harley-Davidson went back to his radio. Then he cut in: "Shit. Let's stop...