Word: armoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the relentless and continuous use of air power; the all-out armor, airborne and helicopter assault of the 101st Airborne division on 23 February; the clarity of the objective (drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait); the suddenness of the ground attack; the complete absence of compromise with Saddam's increasingly submissive peace proposals leading up to the decision to unleash the ground forces; and with the sweeping flanking movements and attacks through weak points; the President and the Joint Chiefs were clearly committed to the time-honored principles of war: mass, objective, surprise, maneuver, security, economy of force and simplicity...
...power to prevail in combat -- but the possibility that the Iraqi leader might withdraw from Kuwait at the last minute, keeping his menacing army and maniacal intentions intact. "I mean, this was worrying me," says Bush. "What happens if he does just haul all this armor back along the border, unpunished, unrepentant, faced down by what he knows is a superior army...
...aerial torpedoes were almost impossible to use in water as shallow as Pearl Harbor. Filching an idea from a recent British torpedo raid against the Italian naval base of Taranto, Genda had technicians create auxiliary wooden tail fins that would keep torpedoes closer to the surface; others converted armor-piercing shells into bombs. But drilling was Fuchida's main task, and all summer his planes staged trial runs over Kagoshima Bay in Kyushu, chosen for its physical resemblance to Pearl. Only in September did Genda tell him, "In case of war, Yamamoto plans to attack Pearl Harbor...
Their inexperience at their new positions could be the chink in the Friars armor...
...facing criticism; the managerial decision-making process that was once considered fine-tuned and flawless is suddenly being second-guessed; businesses that were thought to be impervious to economic downturns have proved to be vulnerable after all. In short, American Express is showing that it has chinks in its armor...