Word: armored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early scenes of the play, Costumer Phoebe Faux clothed the characters in World War II-era garments. Only Hamlet, dressed completely in black and his father's ghost, in armor, deviate from this theme. This idea, coupled with interesting staging, gives the text an appealing freshness...
...answer almost certainly is no. Doubtless Schwarzkopf's troops could have destroyed more of the troops and armor that Saddam is using to suppress the revolts that broke out almost as soon as the war ended. But that would have meant continuing a horrible "turkey shoot" of fleeing Iraqi forces after the war had effectively been won. The allies' goals were to drive Saddam's forces out of Kuwait and cripple Iraq's offensive military capacity. Both had been achieved before the 100 hours were...
...secret of the transformation from group to mob: a few leaders incite the rest, knotting the rope, throwing it over the limb of a tree. The others allow themselves to be carried passively by the group purpose. Lynch mobs always armor themselves with a sense of their retributive righteousness. They also mean to exert social control by exemplary doses of terror, on the conceit that violence is the only language the victim understands...
...British and French military men couldn't wait to paw over some of the Soviet-supplied Iraqi tanks littering the Kuwaiti desert. They expected the abandoned armor to be a boon for battlefield training and analysis. But many tanks were reduced to smoldering hulks by guided missiles. Others, taken out by A-10 attack planes, at first appear to be in good condition, until survey crews discover a small hole in their exteriors. That hole indicates that shrapnel produced by armor-piercing shells has destroyed everything inside. Although the allies captured thousands of Iraqi tanks, the Americans have found just...
...conducting an orderly fighting retreat. The allies were determined to give them no breathing space to pull themselves together to make a stand -- or to regroup for an assault on the American Army, which had cut them off to the north and stood between them and Basra; the Iraqi armor was heading away from one battle but toward another. In any case, many a general has bitterly rued the day he let a beaten enemy army get away to turn around and fight again...