Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plans to make the R.D.F. rapidly deployable are still rudimentary. The Air Force once proposed to build 130 huge C-X transport planes at a total cost of $17.2 billion, but characteristically wanted to design a plane that could both fly between continents and hop from one battlefield to another, and that could carry heavy tanks and artillery yet land on short, rough runways. In May, the Senate Armed Services Committee, fearing that such a supertransport would take forever to build, all but cut off funds for development. The Air Force is now talking of building an unspecified number...
...reveal qualitative comparisons. For example, the Soviets have nothing to match a brand-new U.S. spy plane, the TR-1, that went into service last week; its cameras from an altitude of some 80,000 feet can draw a picture of enemy movements 200 miles beyond a battlefield. Though the Soviets have more submarines, the U.S. can easily detect where they are?whereas the Soviets, so far as is known, have never tracked even one of the 2,000 voyages that U.S. missile-firing submarines have made, some of them very close to the U.S.S.R.'s shores...
...engines cannot tolerate dust; the command-control-communications-intelligence network, designed to control military maeuvers from a central point, which works, under ideal conditions, 38 per cent of the time; the TOW missile, launched by a soldier, which demands that he stand absolutely still in the middle of a battlefield for ten seconds while guiding his warhead at a far-off tank; missiles guided by t.v. cameras that destroy fenceposts as often as enemy targets; and even an Air Force flashlight so electronically sophisticated that almost every pilot bypasses it for $1.50 Japanese models that have the advantage of fitting...
...Arab neighbors. It had achieved a fair measure of prosperity and a high living standard for its 3.9 million citizens. Yet beneath the surface gaiety Israel's mood was troubled. The once exuberant young democracy, the land of gardens in the desert and triumphs on the battlefield, showed signs of age, uneasiness and uncertainty. In many ways it seemed a nation at odds with itself, with its past, with its values. The vision of the future once so boldly defined by its leaders seemed somehow out of focus. Faced with a world more complicated than the one into which...
...McFeely takes pains to show, Grant was no war lover. At Cold Harbor, it was Robert E. Lee who used his sharpshooters to pin down any movement on the battlefield, and Grant who pleaded with him for a chance to collect the wounded. Eleven years later, in 1875, when a new rebellion threatened to break out in Mississippi, Grant refused to commit federal troops lest a new war begin...