Word: battlefield
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...clear loser in the latest Middle East shuffle is the Soviet Union. Not only was Moscow's military hardware outclassed on the battlefield by American-made Israeli arms, but the Soviets' much touted alliances with Syria and the P.L.O. produced little more than rhetoric. The Soviets' conduct also cast doubt on the widely held assumption that they were spoiling for a chance to put their supposed military superiority to a test in a showdown with the U.S. When the opportunity presented itself in Lebanon, Moscow bunked...
France, which is home for 300,000 Armenians, has been the major battlefield for the extremists' war against the Turks. Terrorists have launched over 40 attacks on Turks or Turkish facilities and killed four diplomats. Last September, Armenian terrorists killed a security guard, wounded the vice consul and held 51 people hostage while they occupied the Turkish consulate for 15 hours...
...summit of nonaligned nations in September does not augur well for security. It also underlines the view of my friend, the Basra merchant, that the Shi'ites may not be as loyal to the Saddam government as we are told. There are two fronts in Iraq today: the battlefield in the desert, and the Shi'ite fifth column in the cities waiting for Khomeini's forces to arrive...
...select group of 15 U.S. Army officers went to Livermore, Calif, last year to do what no one had done since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: set off nuclear weapons in a battlefield situation. The action took place, TRON-like, entirely with in the circuitry of a large research computer, but the officers sitting in front of the machine's display screens were not just playing video games. They were in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the Pentagon's request to test the world's most powerful combat simulator. The fate of the earth after the fall out cleared...
...Defense Department believes that the Janus program can train officers to think more clearly about the costs and benefits of battlefield strategies. As one retired officer puts it: "You don't learn about these weapons on the rifle range." Certainly participants learned some pointed lessons at Livermore. One was the tendency of even veteran officers to "go nuke" indiscriminately. "If they were caught out of position, they would try to retrieve the battle with nuclear weapons," says Janus Director Donald Blumenthal, a retired Army colonel working at the California weapons-research laboratory. One officer who let his position deteriorate...