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...egotism was what made him famous and then, in his fight with Harry Truman over the conduct of his last campaign, brought him down. It was what set him apart from the good gray men like Eisenhower, Marshall and Bradley, those modest servants of the democratic spirit on the battlefield. It made him one of the great characters in our military history. It is the great reason to do a film about him, and it is simply a shame to turn him into a dull fellow onscreen-which he never was in life...
...methods have sure changed. Nowadays, they talk about the coming of the electronic battlefield...
Down at our level, we have some pretty fancy electronic gear too. There's SOTAS-stand-off target acquisition systems-which use moving target radar to tell us exactly where enemy troops are massing. And REMBASS, which stands for remotely monitored battlefield sensor system. It uses acoustic and seismic sensors to fill in any gaps in surveillance -say, where the terrain "blinds" a radar system. They had something like it in Viet Nam to detect troop movements. One of these years, we'll be getting RPVS -remotely piloted vehicles (don't you like all the initials?). That...
DESPITE THEIR EGOCENTRICITY, the tribe members evoke sympathy for their cause. Hair extends beyond individuals to a more depersonalized and timeless struggle against the status quo, a fight that appears doomed before it reaches the battlefield. When Claude is carted off to Vietnam, he leaves the tribe behind, singing about "facing a dying nation" and pleading to "let the sunshine in." By this time, the audience is completely on their side...
Most of the battlefield gains seem to have been made by the Moroccans. In part, though, the lift in Zaïre's fortunes was due to the fact that Mobutu belatedly shipped additional pay, food and weapons to his 4,000 soldiers in Shaba. In the interests of boosting their morale, he made a rather bizarre request of Washington: that some 16,000 cases of canned Coca-Cola be included in the $15 million in "nonlethal" military equipment the U.S. is sending to Zaïre. It seems that potable water for the thirsty soldiers is in short...