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...clear loser in the latest Middle East shuffle is the Soviet Union. Not only was Moscow's military hardware outclassed on the battlefield by American-made Israeli arms, but the Soviets' much touted alliances with Syria and the P.L.O. produced little more than rhetoric. The Soviets' conduct also cast doubt on the widely held assumption that they were spoiling for a chance to put their supposed military superiority to a test in a showdown with the U.S. When the opportunity presented itself in Lebanon, Moscow bunked...
...cost of the war is being felt here, not because the Iraqis are losing on the battlefield but because this nearly landlocked country is experiencing a severe economic pinch after 23 months of fighting. The vastly superior Iranian navy, which the Ayatullah Khomeini inherited from the late Shah, has effectively sealed off the vital Shatt al Arab waterway. With the exception of military hardware, which is flown in, Iraq's supplies must arrive by land routes from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Result: astronomical consumer prices. A quart bottle of drinking water costs $25. If you are desperate...
...summit of nonaligned nations in September does not augur well for security. It also underlines the view of my friend, the Basra merchant, that the Shi'ites may not be as loyal to the Saddam government as we are told. There are two fronts in Iraq today: the battlefield in the desert, and the Shi'ite fifth column in the cities waiting for Khomeini's forces to arrive...
...select group of 15 U.S. Army officers went to Livermore, Calif, last year to do what no one had done since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: set off nuclear weapons in a battlefield situation. The action took place, TRON-like, entirely with in the circuitry of a large research computer, but the officers sitting in front of the machine's display screens were not just playing video games. They were in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the Pentagon's request to test the world's most powerful combat simulator. The fate of the earth after the fall out cleared...
...Defense Department believes that the Janus program can train officers to think more clearly about the costs and benefits of battlefield strategies. As one retired officer puts it: "You don't learn about these weapons on the rifle range." Certainly participants learned some pointed lessons at Livermore. One was the tendency of even veteran officers to "go nuke" indiscriminately. "If they were caught out of position, they would try to retrieve the battle with nuclear weapons," says Janus Director Donald Blumenthal, a retired Army colonel working at the California weapons-research laboratory. One officer who let his position deteriorate...