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...China's more realistic strategy grew out of the 1991 Gulf War. Back then, its military doctrine, "People's War," hadn't changed since the Korean conflict, when it sought to drown U.S. forces in human waves of troops. China's top brass was stunned by the power of the U.S. air campaign and by cnn clips of smart bombs diving through ventilator shafts. In response, they shaved a million men off their army, and embarked on a modernization campaign. But they drew another lesson too: that Iraq had erred by not attacking U.S. forces as they arrived...
Saddam's rhetoric is probably overblown. Iraqi soldiers may well surrender as readily as they did in 1991 after 38 days of heavy bombing. But the Iraqi leader, intelligence officials believe, is shrewdly calculating that the U.S. military brass--and the American public--cannot stomach the prospect of sizable losses in such an exchange. Think back to the debacle in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 (chronicled in the movie Black Hawk Down), when 18 U.S. troops were killed, prompting a quick American withdrawal from that African nation. In Iraq there is the added risk that Saddam will use biological or chemical...
...Lone rose to speak. Several groups claimed to be behind the attack. One of them, Al-Arifeen, a new group, said: "We will continue such attacks on all who are participating in the polls." MEANWHILE Hairy Monsters U.S. special forces got a dressing down from their commanders after top brass back home saw photos of bearded and turbaned Americans guarding Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Close shaves were ordered all round. But the suddenly exposed chins proved vulnerable to the sun. "The guys are really burning out there," said a U.S. special operations officer in Kandahar...
Beneath the brass plating, the board's impact is harder to discern. Though its quarterly, two-day sessions take place in Rumsfeld's inner sanctum, the board's two full-time employees run the operation from another floor. Perle sets the agenda and briefers. The members take no votes, do not strive to reach a consensus and write no reports. Instead, they wrap up each session sharing what they have learned with Rumsfeld, who is free to ignore what he is told...
...never to have Elvis on his show, was so thrilled by his guest's effect on the show's ratings that he announced on camera, "I wanted to say to Elvis and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy." Such sentiments did not keep the network brass from issuing an historic decree to the cameramen: Elvis was to be shot strictly from the waist...