Word: battlefield
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...over-represented in uniform, the study says, while those from families earning more are under-represented. The higher-income, better-educated recruits are especially prized by the Army because they have the skills needed to master the increasingly complex equipment that now accompanies a military force onto the battlefield. Army officials have acknowledged the steady slide in recruit quality, but insist that no unqualified soldiers are being sent into combat...
...reasons for al-Qaeda's wanting Bhutto dead, including her commitment to democracy, her secular views, the blowback it will create for Musharraf, and her gender. Beyond that, Zinni says al-Qaeda - making marginal progress in Afghanistan, backsliding in Iraq, and rebuffed in Somalia - is looking for a new battlefield. "I really think they're trying to ignite Pakistan into the kind of chaos they need to survive," Zinni says, "and create a fundamentalist, even radical, Islamic government." "This is one of the worst things that could happen to Musharraf," he continues. "In part, because he'll be accused...
...Educated and from a well-off northern family, Tram volunteered for battlefield duty on the southern front at the tender age of 24, just after graduating from medical school. She spent three and a half years operating a clandestine field clinic for communist soldiers in the jungles of Quang Ngai, in what was then South Vietnam, and began keeping a diary shortly after arrival. "Operated on one case of appendicitis with inadequate anesthesia," reads her first entry, dated April 8, 1968. "I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once...
...like Osama bin Ladin appear more purposeful—though no less horrible.It will always be difficult to view the intentional murder of innocent civilians as rational, but “What Terrorists Want” makes it possible to see terrorism as a chosen tactic for an asymmetrical battlefield. By viewing terrorism more objectively, Richardson gives hope that we can develop and implement a plan to overcome it.—Staff writer Eric M. Sefton can be reached at esefton@fas.harvard.edu...
Sheehan, who worked with Halberstam while covering the Vietnam War, spoke on Halberstam’s bravery in combat and the stature it afforded him among soldiers. “If you go into the battlefield with them, you become a comrade, and that lasts you all your life,” he said...