Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in December 1980, Military Review, a journal of the U.S. Army, carried a cover story titled "The New Mental Battlefield." In his quirky essay, Lieut. Colonel John B. Alexander wrote that "there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." He equated the first strategic breakthrough in defense E.S.P. with sole possession of nuclear weapons and urged the U.S. to step up its research in the field...
...F.M.L.N.'s skills on the battlefield have been overshadowed by the deterioration of El Salvador's army. Perpetually plagued by inept commanders and a "9t05" fighting mentality, the military improved over the summer but faltered once the rebel offensive began. The poor performance has prompted Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova to shuffle his corps of colonels, but the troops suffer from battle fatigue as much as bad orders. Says a State Department analyst: "The army did not so much go back to their barracks as just run out of steam...
...support for excluding the media was far from universal, but much of it was expressed in gleeful, even vengeful terms. Further, many of the more thoughtful respondents seemed to reach beyond the battlefield issue to reflect deep, far-ranging resentment of the press. Linda Warren of West Hollywood, Calif., wrote to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner: "Journalists are so out of touch with majority values, such as honor, duty and service to country, that they are alienated from the very society that they purport to serve." Duane Bloom of Golden, Colo., argued in a letter to the Denver Post...
...press, by its nature, is rarely beloved-nor should that be its aim. Too often it must be the bearer of bad tidings. Since World War II, journalists have covered the turmoil of the civil rights movement, conveyed vivid scenes of domestic protest and battlefield gore during the Viet Nam War, and participated in the collapse of a presidency. Within the past two years, the press chronicled the pain of 10% unemployment. Increasingly, this bad news has been brought by the emotional medium of TV, which can seem rudely intrusive at both ends of its electronic linkage: at the scene...
...jocund as this: there are some very sober statistics about the "feminization of poverty," on the fact that with current trends prevailing, soon the vast majority of the population below the poverty level will be women and children. And her conclusion is a balanced, thorough look at the battlefield of the war of the sexes after the key early stages...