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...without a hitch. But as a test of Honduran military ability, the exercise appeared to be a failure. The ill-trained Hondurans were unable to cope with the 1,300 tons of equipment rained on them by the U.S. Nor did they show any great mastery of the battlefield discipline necessary to repel a hypothetical Corinthian advance. The 528 Honduran paratroopers dropped into the war-game zone, for example, spent two full hours attempting to regroup into companies. When one trooper was slightly injured during a faulty jump, other members of his battalion stood idly by rather than carrying...
...Friedman started out in business as editors of Boston's now defunct counterculture weekly, the Real Paper. There they learned, the hard way, their first lesson in management: somebody has to be in charge. They are not so naive any more. In Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield (Simon & Schuster; 248 pages; $13.95), the two examine competition in American business. The rise and fall of the Real Paper is but one of the case histories that they crack open to extract the techniques of corporate survival...
...Battlefield Earth, Hubbard...
...indeed quite a man. From the Irish precincts of Buffalo, he rose to become a battlefield legend in World War I as commander of the "Fighting 69th" infantry. After the war he grew rich as a lawyer for moneyed interests, constantly dashing off on shadowy foreign missions of commerce or diplomacy. He was a Republican candidate for Governor of New York, acting Attorney General of the U.S. under Calvin Coolidge and an oft-mentioned presidential possibility. When Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to form a civilian intelligence service at the outset of World War II, Donovan followed the dictum...
...need for new American missiles in their countries. A series of official statements, leaked documents and new Pentagon programs suggested that the Administration took more seriously than any of its predecessors the feasibility of a "limited, protracted" nuclear war. The West Europeans feared that their countries might be the battlefield. Finally, Reagan's enthusiasm for a worldwide crusade against Soviet Communism, voiced during a trip to Europe last summer, could hardly have been less in tune with the growing nostalgia there for détente