Word: antitank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult to get too huffy about the deal after reading Brian Keenan, Terry Waite and Terry Anderson on their years in chains and filth. Is a hostage worth 300 TOW antitank missiles or 50 Hawks? We know the argument: rewarding terrorism breeds more terrorism. But what if the hostage is your son, brother or husband, suddenly stripped of humanity and lost in a world that reads like Kafka with kaffiyehs...
...that Israel occupies in southern Lebanon. In recent months Hizballah launched Katyusha rockets into Israel proper and generally stepped up its operations. The group has got much better at what it does, more energetic and more professional. Israeli intelligence says the guerrillas have acquired improved armaments, including Russian Sagger antitank missiles. They have learned to coordinate several feints to mask a swoop on their real target. "They are now more sophisticated in their modus operandi," said a senior Israeli officer...
...obtained from Afghan arms bazaars or a sympathetic stockpiler like Syria. To counter the Serbs' 105-mm artillery pieces and T-72 tanks, the Muslims could use Western-made counterartillery radar, which Washington would have to ( supply directly or through allies. The Pentagon would want to ship TOW antitank weapons and light armored vehicles -- fast, mobile carriers useful for keeping forces together -- as well. One nonlethal item of great utility would be tactical radios to improve Muslim command and communications. Since the U.S. is reluctant to get involved on the ground, it might turn to Turkey, which already smuggles weapons...
...Operation Restore Hope a failure? The U.S. sent in 25,800 soldiers armed with machine guns, tanks, rocket launchers, antitank weapons and helicopters at a cost of $30 million to $40 million a day to carry out a humanitarian mission. They accomplished the primary goal: saving thousands of Somalis from imminent starvation. The Americans and their allies in the 24- nation expedition created at least some oases of safety in a desert of anarchy. And they blazed the way for a new kind of U.N. force -- not the lightly armed peacekeepers of the past but "peace-enforcing" troops toting enough...
Today the situation is very different. The United States has a large standing army for its defense; unless citizens begin acquiring F-16's and antitank missiles, popular unrest will not be very effective against the national military. Individual gun ownership is no longer necessary for maintaining the safety of the country...