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After graduating in 1956, Schwarzkopf took on various Army assignments and later served two tours in Vietnam, first as a paratrooper advising Vietnamese airborne troops, then as commander of an infantry battalion. Twice he was wounded in action; three times he won a Silver Star. On one occasion, he tiptoed into a minefield to rescue a wounded soldier; it scared him to death, he told a reporter later. Says his sister Sally: "He went off to Vietnam as the heroic captain. He came back having lost his youth...
CIVIL AFFARIS. If Kuwait is retaken, a battalion of workers will use Stateside skills in such areas as public health, safety and finance to begin restoring the country's infrastructure. A team of lawyers will begin sorting out international-law matters, and engineers will supervise reconstruction of destroyed areas. They will be helped by members of the Army's Special Operations Force who speak Arabic and know the region...
Once the last American trip-wire battalion is gone, Germany will feel liberated in some respects but vulnerable in others. Then what? Will the government in Bonn -- or perhaps by then Berlin -- ask for help from Britain and France, which have their own independent nuclear deterrents? German pride would make that expedient unattractive...
Like the rest of the soldiers of the 101st Battalion in Komura, Kyaw Lin is tired. A few weeks earlier, he and other men in his squadron waded across the river into Thailand, chasing a battalion of Burmese troops that had slipped across the border to attack the Karen position from the rear. Karen troops battled the Burmese in the Thai village of Wang Kauo; by the time the fighting was over, twelve Karens and 70 Burmese were dead, and the village was a charred ruin. Kyaw Lin remembers stepping over dead bodies, but little else. He likes to keep...
Twenty-three years after the fact, Denny McClellan's recurring dream is still vivid. Once again he is 18, back on patrol ten miles northwest of Danang in the company of equally wary, heavily armed grunts of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines. His M-16 is loaded for Charlie, and a couple of grenades are within easy reach in his flak jacket. His field pack weighs 40 lbs., and the day is surpassingly hot. The lance corporal his buddies call "Red" is sweating heavily. His squad leader, not much older than McClellan, gives a hand signal, and the patrol moves...