Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most entertaining sideshow of the war in Kosovo is staged almost every day at the Pentagon's press briefing room. There exasperated reporters conduct jousting sessions with uniformed military commanders in vain attempts to divine the most banal of battlefield data information. How many NATO air strikes have been aborted because of bad weather? "I'm afraid I can't get into that level of detail right off the top of my head," Vice Admiral Scott Fry said at a Pentagon briefing early in the campaign. How about an approximation? "I'd prefer not to even approximate it." A ballpark...
...Wars inevitably end at the negotiating table, but what transpires there generally reflects the balance of force between the combatants. That which is not wrested from an adversary on the battlefield generally can't be coaxed out over a shiny table, and the amount that NATO or Milosevic concedes will be determined by which side has more stomach to continue the fight. In the absence of a decisive military outcome, compromises are inevitable. The only stable deal is one that each side can sell to its supporters as a victory...
...military, however, hasn't given up trying to make the laser into a weapon. Ronald Reagan's ill-fated Star Wars program called for orbiting X-ray lasers to zap enemy missiles, and the Army is still experimenting with battlefield lasers. While they won't slice enemy soldiers in half, they can temporarily blind troops...
...aggregate prime-time audience for the three leading cable news channels--CNN, MSNBC and Fox--more than doubled at the height of the scandal and has predictably dropped way off since then. Less predictably, the battlefield looks different since the smoke has cleared. Fox, the youngest and least widely carried of the three (38.8 million homes, vs. 47.8 million for MSNBC and 75.9 million for CNN), has moved past MSNBC and into second place in the important prime-time hours, with a lineup of talk shows featuring Bill O'Reilly, Catherine Crier and conservative-liberal duo Sean Hannity and Alan...
...battlefield is "3G," the so-called third generation standards for mobile phones. Before you yawn, check out what a 3G phone is supposed to offer: regular voice but also digital data at 2 Mbps. That's faster than a T1. MORE...