Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even some of the tank crews were made up of men who had never trained together. The slipshod organization produced not just confusion -- the Russians suffered many casualties from "friendly fire" -- but ineffectiveness in combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support their buddies. If troops do not know one another, the essential bond does not exist, and they tend to shrink from action. The unseasoned draftees had no warm clothes or food to ward off the bitter cold; most did not know where they were or what their mission...
...treated by history as great Popes. John has a more humane face, in some ways a more attractive face: a Pope for the home and the fireside and joyous festivals of the church. John Paul is a Pope for the public forum, for the vast congregation and the open battlefield, where the forces of Christianity fight for survival in an often hostile world. He is an intellectual Pope and a warrior Pope. But he is also, and increasingly, a praying Pope, a man rarely off his knees. He is even coming to resemble Pope John physically: an old, increasingly frail...
...under the pressure of the Bosnian Serbs and quarreling presidential advisers. The Serb triumph at Bihac has brought home the extent of Washington's failure and opened a bitter debate about what to do next. "Our policy is in complete disarray," admits a senior official. The debacle on the battlefield left the White House, senior Administration officials and a leading legislator separately enunciating contradictory positions...
...Grachev had managed to turn the tables on his adversaries. He did so by detailing, in graphic terms, the sorry state of a military that only five years ago was one of the most formidable armed forces in the world. He ticked off the problems like a list of battlefield defeats: pinched budgets, poor equipment, low recruitment rates, unpaid salaries and a decline in military preparedness so precipitous that not a single ground-force training maneuver has been carried out at the divisional level since 1992. Implicit in his words was the accusation that it is parliament, which controls...
...narrowly defined mission: to protect aid shipments to civilians across the war-torn country, not to make or enforce peace. Their mission is based on the illogical premise that it is possible to deliver relief supplies through a war zone without clashing with the army that rules the battlefield. It is as if 50 years ago relief workers had tried to truck supplies to Paris through Wehrmacht lines...