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From the very beginning of the cold war, Western military planners have been preoccupied by a single goal in case of war: keeping columns of Soviet tanks and troops from reaching the heart of Europe. When the U.S. held a decisive nuclear edge, NATO threats to use battlefield nukes against the Warsaw Pact's numerically superior armies were a very effective deterrent. But the Soviets continued to strengthen both their nuclear and their conventional forces. As a result, Europeans began to be concerned that the U.S. would not use its nuclear arms to defend the Continent, for fear...
...report acknowledges European fears that a nuclear exchange on the battlefield could not be limited and would quickly turn into a continent-wide holocaust. It suggests that a buildup of conventional forces is a credible alternative because it would provide NATO commanders with a greater range of options for checking a Soviet advance, thus making the use of nuclear weapons less likely. To repel the first invasion forces in a Warsaw Pact blitzkrieg across Central Europe, the committee of strategists urged NATO to acquire more sophisticated ground-and air-launched conventional missile systems that could be targeted at Soviet bloc...
...opener and flattening parking meters and lampposts. The blast, thought to be the worst incident of urban terrorism in South African history, killed at least 17 people and injured almost 200 others. Said a stunned eyewitness: "The whole scene, with dead and dying in the street, looked like a battlefield...
...Battlefield Earth, Hubbard...
TIMES ARE HARD for Israeli diplomats serving at the United Nations. Their Arab counterparts have converted the halls and chambers of the organization into an ideological battlefield almost as intense as the real one back home. While the most flagrant acts of international illegality are silently ignored, a coalition of Arab, Communist, and Third World countries noisily churns out hundreds of anti-Israel resolutions in every U.N. forum. So the diplomats were probably not surprised to learn last week that the U.N. is scheduling a conference in Vienna this July to examine "an alleged alliance" between South Africa...