Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground war in the gulf comes closer, so does the prospect of chemical * warfare. If U.S. troops have to fight on a poisoned battlefield, will their gas masks and protective suits keep them safe? The not completely reassuring answer...
...public opinion, despots find it easier than do the leaders of democracies to march their countries into battle. But once they begin a war, Americans have an appetite for victory. If Saddam Hussein is betting that antiwar protests can grant him a triumph he cannot win on the battlefield, the odds are much against...
...consultant who trains salespeople to handle stress, says Saddam's fluttering eyelids may be a sign of mental breakdown. "When salesmen start blinking, they're usually in trouble," says Molloy. "The guy looks like he's falling apart." While medical researchers are split over the significance of rapid blinking, battlefield commanders confirm that the symptom is common among soldiers who have endured heavy bombardment...
...with, it will come in more than one place: a broad flanking movement far to the west, for example, possibly accompanied by a Marine amphibious landing in Kuwait and multiple feints at the fortified front as well. Because the Iraqis have no reconnaissance planes in the air and no battlefield intelligence aside from what they can see over their sand walls, they will not know which thrust is the main one. They are also blinded by a shortage of night-fighting equipment and their inability to communicate with each other under electronic jamming...
Although the populace is more willing to ask what it can do for the country than at any time in three decades, Bush only talked about sacrifice on the battlefield, not on the home front. Whether out of fear of linkage between the war and oil, or a wariness of doing anything reminiscent of the sweater- wearing, thermostat-lowering Carter Administration, Bush devoted just 30 seconds to the crucial question of energy policy...