Word: armoring
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...darkest moments of our post-Vietnam experience, U.S. Army General Bill DePuy visited Israel. It was right after the 1973 October War, when Israeli forces defeated a series of massed Syrian armor attacks on the Golan Heights. This was a climactic battle, and the victory was close and costly...
Syrians got their equipment and tactics from the Soviet Union. The U.S. Army worked closely with Israel. Together, we saw the need for more powerful tank guns; longer-range, all-weather optics; thicker armor; and better coordination among units. Defensive tactics were refined, complementing Israel's already formidable offensive capabilities. For Israel, it had been the fourth war in 25 years. The Israelis were unchallengeable on the ground and in the air--at least in conventional terms...
Although HUPD issues its officers body armor, it does not require officers to wear the armor while on duty...
...tenth of the country's armor can fit on a single commercial freighter, and last week Canadian troops had to storm that freighter to get it back. The equipment, en route home from Kosovo, had been held up by the shipping firm because of an unpaid bill...
...also fumbling for a way to explain his opposition in 1986 to a call for the release of Nelson Mandela from a South African prison. And he has been mostly silent on why he was one of only 21 House members who voted against a bill to regulate armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets, then one of just four who voted against a ban on plastic guns that cannot be picked up by metal detectors...