Word: battlefield
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...toward short battles conducted at long distance by increasingly intelligent machines. Defense experts predict that the next arms race will be to develop the smartest, stealthiest and most accurate weapons and to demonstrate their superiority convincingly enough in advance to avoid risking lives and expensive hardware on the battlefield...
...reliable rule of statecraft that it is hard to win at the bargaining table what you are unable or unwilling to win on the battlefield. Henry Kissinger, a cold-eyed realist and practitioner of power politics, knew this well. During the four years that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wanted to speed up troop withdrawals and, in Kissinger's view, undercut U.S. leverage at the Paris peace talks. And after the peace accord was signed in January 1973, he repeatedly...
...VIETNAM WAR WAS AMERICA'S LONGEST ON THE battlefield and probably as damaging to the national psyche as the Civil War. In some important ways it is not over yet. Just a few days of Senate hearings were enough to revive the country's faded memories of bloodshed, the accusations of official duplicity and the anger of the 1970s. Names and faces out of the past returned to Capitol Hill to wrangle and dispute, 20 years later, the fate of American servicemen who did not come home from Indochina...
Hellbent to harvest a crop they did not plant, the loggers leave behind a battlefield strewn with war's spoils: misshapen logs and stumps, distorted and twisted beyond belief--the grotesque deformities of wooden corpses...
...twins. We wage fratricidal war -- ego vs. id, propriety vs. instinct, the will to do good vs. the itch to raise hell -- on the battlefield of our split souls. What is civilization if not the successful repression of the evil twin in all of us? And what is cinema if not an artful evocation of that same malevolent impulse? Seeing a thriller, we are schizo sibs: the part of us that is scared and the part that knows it's only a movie...