Word: brutalize
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...outraged by, and mourn, the brutal murder of Danny Pearl as much as anyone who did not know him personally. His death was unprovoked and senseless, and cannot but prove exceptionally counterproductive to the perverse aims of his abductors. Yet I mourn also for my country, Pakistan. This nation of 140 million, as much as Pearl himself, is being held hostage by fringe elements from within who, with their acts of barbarity, present an image of Pakistan quite at odds with the country I know and love...
...country just emerging from a brutal civil war and still teeming with armed warlords? Especially if you don't have a military of your own? For Hamid Karzai, the answer sometimes is just to take care of the little things. On a recent afternoon, Afghanistan's interim leader decides to take the pulse of the capital, Kabul, on foot. Before setting out, he removes his trademark green-striped Uzbek robe and puts on a less flashy overcoat. Accompanied by a pair of aides but no bodyguards, he strolls through the palace gates to check out the city. He stops...
...monarchy, caste and feudalism: nearly 2,000 had perished while gaining little ground. But since Nov. 23 when the Maoist rebels ended a four-month truce and launched a string of attacks across the nation, it has become clear that the rebels, who take as a model Peru's brutal Shining Path, have transformed themselves into a lethal force. Since then, Nepal's civil war has claimed another 900 lives. Peace negotiations have been abandoned; Parliament last week extended the state of emergency by three months and the talk now is of full-scale war. "I no longer believe they...
...weapons and tactics used by the guerrillas in Mangalsen have fueled suspicions that they have received training and aid from India's equally brutal communist rebels. Most of the Maoists' political leaders, including the group's founder, former agricultural student Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda, have found shelter across the border in the northern jungles of Bihar State. The emboldened rebels are also striking isolated army posts to seize automatic weapons. The arms used with such devastation at Mangalsen?5-cm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and Indian self-loading rifles, according to Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times...
...broken. The idea took root that war's central purpose was to "find and engage [the enemy] in order to end the entire business as quickly as possible." Subtitled Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...