Word: battlefield
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...spies, including a sailor based at the U.S. Navy's giant Hampton Roads facility in Norfolk, Va. Wayne Gilbert, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, complains of a continuing influx of Russian agents disguised as businessmen and tourists. In the Belgian episode, SVR spies had targeted a sensitive nato battlefield communications system. Elsewhere in Europe, the Russians have shown interest in everything from electronic banking systems to civilian computer software with potential military applications...
...disadvantage. The Slovenes had Slovenia, the Croats Croatia, and the Macedonians Macedonia, but the Yugoslav Albanians never had a republic of their own. Instead, they were concentrated in the province of Kosovo in southern Serbia. Worse luck still, that piece of real estate included the site of the famous battlefield where Lazar lost to Murad...
...potential for unintended assault from an ally's gun is a fact of life on the battlefield. But sometimes tragedy is avoidable. Last week a British inquest decided that two U.S. pilots had acted with reckless indifference to the rules of combat when they inadvertently killed nine English soldiers during the gulf war. The American officers, the jury determined, had failed to verify map coordinates for their targets before opening fire on vehicles they believed were Iraqi. The British government indicated it would not press charges against the pilots...
...ownership of Thomson gives it control of the firm. Carlucci argues instead that such French firms enjoy considerable autonomy. Dozens of international firms have classified contracts with the Pentagon, he points out. Thomson-CSF itself shares with GTE a $4.3 billion contract for the state-of-the-art battlefield-communications system that played a critical role in the gulf war. For that matter, Martin Marietta shares classified contracts with Thomson-CSF for sophisticated terminally guided munitions. James Bell, chairman and president of Thomson-CSF Inc., the American subsidiary, told the U.S. Congress, "Thomson-CSF has an impeccable record on compliance...
...military, Newman argues, provided overly optimistic battlefield assessments after American advisers were sent to Vietnam in the early 1960s. These were designed to encourage Kennedy to continue America's commitment there. Newman contends that Kennedy eventually became aware of this deception, but he went along because it served his own secret purpose: to withdraw some of the U.S. advisers under the guise that the war was going so well that they were no longer necessary. The "elaborate deception," Newman writes, "was originally designed to forestall Kennedy from a precipitous withdrawal, but he was now using it -- judo style -- to justify...