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...rendered in favor of the disputant who has the greater force at his command. War is an emotional and expensive method for solving world problems, expensive not only in financial terms but also in rivers of human blood. War, now as always, has its purpose in human society--the battlefield is the final and supreme court in the international dispute. In the old days the battlefield was more or less confined to certain areas, but modern technology has brought all parts of our planet within its perimeter. The question today is, will the nations of the earth reject...
...wallpaper salesman in Buffalo, Spahn was just ripening in the minors when he went into the Army in 1942. A combat engineer, Spahn won a battlefield commission and was wounded by shrapnel in the action to repair the Remagen bridge for the first troops to cross the Rhine. Spahn shrugs off both the wound ("It was only a scratch in the foot'') and the promotion ("I got it only because all our officers were killed...
...found that there had been little change in training since the early days of World War II. "But there is 100 years', perhaps a thousand years', difference in terms of warfare," says Polich. At a time when five enlisted men are supposed to operate nuclear-armed battlefield missiles with the power of 1,000 World War II bombers, instructors were still droning through confusing, poorly illustrated lectures more likely to put students to sleep than turn them into well-trained technicians. Says Polich: "In the old days we used to hand the student 62 Ibs. of manuals...
...CIVIL WAR. Like newsmen in the 1860's passengers ride to the battle lines in white, horse-drawn correspondents' wagons, get caught in a blistering crossfire. Plastic corpses-eight in grey, eight in blue-litter the battlefield; farmhouses burn; cannon balls seem to plop within inches of the customers. Crossfire is Freedomland's favorite device: the "Buccaneers" concession sends paying guests on a port tack between two fiercely battling pirate ships; and throughout the Wild West, Indians are forever blazing away at anything that moves, usually past the noses of tourists...
...Pershing solid-fuel ballistic missile, with a range of more than 300 miles. Mounted on its own tracked vehicle, which serves as transporter and launcher, the Pershing is an enormous improvement over earlier battlefield ballistic missiles, e.g., the Sergeant, which moved in three segments in three trucks, took the crew half an hour to assemble and fire...