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Making the numbers look better became the chief objective of the war. Those charged with evaluating the battlefield situation felt compelled to prettify the picture to please their higher-ups. Accurate but unpalatable reality was not in demand; visions of success, however far-fetched, were. When the body counts reached Washington and the Oval Office, they inevitably showed relatively few friendly casualties and massive enemy losses. So we must have been winning, right...
...French are the most adulterous. The Danes, the most tolerant. The Italians-what other nation produces as many sobbing tenors?-are the most melancholy. And the British, perhaps because their green and pleasant land has not been the battlefield the Continent has been in living memory, are the most willing to go to war for Queen and country...
...flexible response" that both the U.S. and its European allies accepted years ago: the use of tactical nuclear weapons would not necessarily lead to nuclear holocaust. If the Soviets were to attack in Europe with their overwhelming superiority in conventional arms, NATO could choose to respond on the battlefield with tactical nuclear weapons, a threat meant to deter any invasion in the first place...
...publicly, they have never said any such thing. They are saying that all measures must be taken to prevent nuclear war. There exists a fear of nuclear confrontation here and in Europe, and it has been heightened by your President's statement that Europe might become a battlefield for tactical nuclear weapons. In America, people are less sensitive to these matters than in Europe and the Soviet Union because World War II was fought over here...
...once remarked that "it's very difficult to be his wife, but it's wonderful to be on the sidelines watching him. He doesn't ^ like anything that's conventional, and he must do everything to perfection." Fearless to the point of folly on the battlefield, he initiated the tradition of Israeli officers personally leading their troops into battle. His extraordinary courage and enormous stature inevitably made him a lightning rod for Israel's triumphs and tragedies. No Israeli political figure soared to such heights of public esteem as did Dayan in the wake...