Word: battlefield
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...Middle East. The Arabic language likes to inflate politics with supernatural meanings: a mere mortal enemy -- George Bush, for example, or the West -- may be transformed into the Great Satan. The phrase has moral and dramatic clarity. It is a bright blade of denunciation flashing on a battlefield of absolutes. But it is difficult for Arabs to use such a weapon against a mortal friend -- against a brother...
JORDAN. King Hussein's worst fear is that Iraq and Israel will use his country as their battlefield. The most dangerous threat is that Israel will fly through Jordanian airspace to retaliate for Iraqi missile strikes. Hussein has vowed to repulse any intrusion, but that would draw him into a conflict in which he has nothing to gain. Even if Jordan manages to stay out of the actual fighting, there are other possibilities for its destabilization. Aggravated by the gulf conflict, tensions between the country's Palestinian majority and Bedouin minority, to which the King belongs, could spark an uprising...
...Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams insisted that any nonpool reporter who tried to observe U.S. troops in action would promptly be "escorted back to a rear unit and, as soon as possible, back to Dhahran." Many Americans would like to believe that the Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield but in the headlines. The Pentagon denies it shares that view, but its actions gainsay its words...
...BATTLEFIELD HISTORIANS. Military History Detachments from all the services have been sent to the gulf to collect and preserve maps and other documents that will eventually become the official history of Desert Shield for the National Archives. Also on deck: service members with artistic talent to do sketches documenting troop life in the sand...
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE. Another unit will attempt, primarily through radio broadcasts and air-dropped leaflets, to "alter the psychological environment of the battlefield and affect audiences far beyond the confines of the battlefield area." Translation: spread disinformation among the enemy. This unit would also start a free newspaper in liberated Kuwait. If hostilities are carried into Iraq, PSYOP will discourage the civilian population from supporting Saddam's army...