Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon announced that it will spend $500 million over five years to encourage U.S. companies to compete with Japan in the production of flat-panel computer display screens. The screens can be used in cockpits and armored vehicles, and as displays in soldiers' helmets, and on battlefield maps...
...confusion in Bosnia -- on the battlefield as well as in diplomatic quarters -- did little to help the Administration think out an effective policy. After two U.N. peacekeepers were injured on Friday, the U.N. military commander in Bosnia, Lieut. General Sir Michael Rose, suggested further air strikes to enable his military observers to withdraw from the battlefield. But Akashi, who was in the Bosnian Serb headquarters in Pale trying to resuscitate negotiations, was not willing to approve the request. The next day when the Serbs began encircling Gorazde, Rose and Akashi called for "fairly robust air cover," according to a senior...
When the Clinton Administration had quietly encouraged limited strikes on the Gorazde perimeter earlier in the week, it had several aims in mind. It was trying to rob the Serbs of another battlefield victory, inject new life into stalled peace negotiations and redeem its own recent bumbling performance, when senior officials publicly contradicted each other about the prospect of air strikes. While the bombings were technically NATO operations in response to a request to protect U.N. peacekeeping troops, in practice the attacks were a U.S. experiment: an attempt to use limited military force to end the fighting in Bosnia...
Some military analysts believe that deadly misjudgments are made more likely by battlefield technology that hands over decisions to computers. Defense officials acknowledged that last week's mishap is likely to hamper efforts to improve the capability of new U.S. weapon systems to fire on an enemy from far away. "We were just really beginning to push beyond-visual-range technologies," says an executive at McDonnell Douglas, builder of the F-15C. "This is going to put a brake on that...
...care reform. Congress last month passed, and President Clinton signed, a bill that outlaws smoking in all public and some private schools. And last Friday U.S. Department of Defense restrictions went into effect that ban smoking in all military work spaces, ranging from military bases to tanks on the battlefield...