Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inconclusive Claims. Amidst the talk, shooting continued along the ill-defined border of the Western Sahara. Back and forth went the battle for two tiny desert wells that each side claimed as its own, Hassi Beida and Tinjoub. As the Algerian troops inched forward across the windswept, desolate battlefield, it appeared to one Bible-versed correspondent that men were "as trees walking."* The Algerians had no radios; orders were simply shouted back and forth, echoing clearly across the valley to the Moroccans. "Hey, Mohammed, give them a blast with the 75 recoilless rifle. That's right...
...blue defenders, supposedly vaporizing the town of Pon-tarlier (pop. 16,000). Smoke machines puffed up mushroom clouds to simulate utter destruction. The blues responded by dispatching a couple of Mirage VIs to drop 60-kiloton bombs on a red town of equivalent size. Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, the blues sprayed 15 tactical nuclear weapons on the reds in an area ten miles long and ten miles wide. More puffs of smoke aux champignons. Fifteen minutes passed, and the blues advanced in tanks and on foot. France won. Among army strategists, felicitations all around...
...weapon; if they fail to deter, and France is falling, then and only then are the bombers to be used to drag the attacker under with France. They cannot be used on routine, tit-for-tat bombing missions as the war games suggested. As for the frantic, 15-weapon battlefield broadside, so lavish a use of atomic weapons in so small an area (particularly on French soil) amounted to nothing more than an old-fashioned artillery barrage, reduced to absurdity. And why move into the area 15 minutes later? What would be left to attack? How could one protect tanks...
Litton is making plenty of other bets on the future. It is at least two years ahead of the field in making portable command and control systems that can be airlifted by helicopters to act as battlefield operations centers. It is working on a device to control the weather, on an electronic retrieval system for libraries, and on quick-cooking microwave ovens-Litton's first real consumer product-for the potentially big electronic-cooking field. Though Litton is now selling thousands of electronic and computer projects individually, it is quietly gearing up for a massive entry into complete electronic...
From a graveyard at the fringe of the battlefield, a Viet Cong heavy machine gun knocked out an APC. But supported by government air force planes, which swept over the Red positions in screaming, shallow dives firing rockets and dropping napalm, the reinforcements rolled straight onto the Reds, mashing scores of the Communist troops into the stinking paddy mud with their huge steel treads. At last the Reds broke and ran, leaving behind 83 dead...