Word: armoring
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...COVER-UPS For the fashion-conscious, the market is flooded. You'll find everything from a flashy rubber "jam jacket" to glow-in-the-dark cases, executive "podfolios" and designer gear from Pucci and Coach. The Schwarzenegger of the bunch is iPod Armor, a $50 anodized aluminum, foam-lined hard case ideal for skateboarders, snowboarders and other sports enthusiasts who tend to fall down...
...Michael Moseley, the air-war commander, said on April 5, the day the U.S. Army entered Baghdad. "We're not softening them up. We're killing them." Later on, in its assessment of the damage the U.S. had wrought, the Pentagon focused on devastation to the Guard's armor, concluding, for example, that all but two dozen of their 800 tanks had been destroyed or abandoned. But a central mystery of the war remains: What happened to the people, the thousands of Republican Guard soldiers arrayed outside Baghdad who were subjected to the full wrath of the most powerful military...
...evidence that TIME's team collected indicates that relatively few members of the Republican Guard were actually killed in the fighting. According to the accounts, the Iraqi forces for the most part survived aerial bombardments by keeping their distance from their armor, which U.S. pilots targeted with great precision. Then as U.S. ground troops approached, the Republican Guard generally fled. Many of them appear to have acted on their own, motivated by fear and self-preservation. In Baghdad, according to a high-ranking Republican Guard officer interviewed by TIME, troops were actually instructed to desert. This may help explain...
...most part, the U.S. hit these forces first from the air. In many cases, drones were used to locate Iraqi armor, then bombers were called in to destroy it. Of the 28,000 bombs and missiles that American pilots dropped during the war--70% of which were smart--about half were directed against the Republican Guard. Judging from the look of the battlefields today, the bombing was largely surgical. In the open market in Mahmudiyah, five tanks were hit from the air while they were parked in alleyways so narrow that their gun turrets could not be turned. The storefront...
...Harvard, these kinks in the armor were certainly not new but left the squad as vulnerable as ever before. The Crimson is 0-9 this season in games in which it attempted fewer than 20 shots...