Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called "thinking the unthinkable." In the event of nuclear attack, so the argument goes, to respond by attacking population centers would only leave both countries devastated. Therefore, the United States should be prepared to respond to Soviet attack by knocking out the Soviet's missiles, and thereby halting the assault in its tracks...
...course, as each side develops more accurate weapons systems, deterrence falls by the wayside. This is because each side gains the capability of launching a surprise nuclear assault (destroying the other side's arsenal), to which the other side could not respond...
...several years, the Reagan Administration decided to expand its assistance last fall. What the Americans found was not encouraging. Fully 40% of Lebanese regulars did not have boots or field jackets, and many carried weapons that did not work. Some units had been issued three kinds of assault rifles, each requiring different ammunition. The army's supply depot was "a total nightmare," in the words of an American officer. Crates of military materiel airlifted from the U.S. in 1978 were unopened, and no one was sure of their contents. When Lebanese President Amin Gemayel ordered his army...
...miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator of the Nicaraguan junta, declared confidently that "the counterrevolutionary forces are in serious difficulty...
...panel still accepts John Paul's view that deterrence is "morally acceptable" if it is part of a process leading to disarmament. But the committee clearly remains deeply distressed by the basic concept of deterrence: U.S. willingness to counterattack by launching nuclear missiles. Since such an assault would be bound to kill countless civilians near military targets, it might well conflict with the tenets of the venerable "just war" doctrine, which bars the indiscriminate or disproportionate killing of the innocent...