Word: bayonetting
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What went wrong? What happened is that Mogadishu exposed the first post-cold war mirage: in foreign policy, particularly foreign policy at the point of a bayonet, there is no such thing as pure humanitarianism. Once you go beyond relief to policing, you have to shoot...
...West can prod, but only the leaders of former Yugoslavia can decide on a course. For now,they seem bent on further anarchy. "Too many people, too often and too fast, are prepared to resort to the use of the gun and the bayonet," says Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. As Lebanon demonstrated through 16 years of misery and chaos, no outside force can impose peace on a country -- or leaders -- bent on war. Perhaps the West can only sit back and wait until the ethnic groups feel they have no more blood to give. Then, when they...
...Bible, and he read in it, as he did every morning, for about 10 minutes. It brought him little comfort. At this moment of crisis, facing a threat that imperiled his life, his command and his whole world, America's greatest living military hero, the bemedaled veteran of bayonet charges through no-man's-land in France, seemed paralyzed. When he did go to his nearby headquarters, he issued no orders to his forces. Officers seeking instructions found themselves barred from his presence...
...Kuwait that he did not extend his defensive line of berms, razor wire and mines more than a few miles west of the Kuwait frontier that faces Saudi Arabia. The struggle for Kuwait, he said in January, would finally depend on "the soldier who comes with rifle and bayonet to fight the soldier in the battle trench." In that, he boasted, "we are people with experience...
...lines, the participation of blacks in the Union Army, the role of women and the use of spies. The series has a special knack for resonant details and lucid generalizations. The unprecedented number of casualties, explains Foote, was due to the fact that war's technology had outstripped tactics: bayonet charges were outmoded, but few generals realized it. After its conquest by the Union Army on the Fourth of July in 1863, the city of Vicksburg, Miss., did not celebrate the holiday for another 81 years...