Word: brutes
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...military has been here before: caught in a conflict where the thing it does best--fighting--can't win the war. In Iraq today, brute force is a wasting asset, as Major General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, knows firsthand. On a hot late-summer day, his soldiers entered Baghdad's Sadr City slum to quell attacks from militiamen loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Chiarelli's troops came under fierce fire as dozens of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) pounded their vehicles, and roadside bombs blew the tracks off a tank. For four hours...
...Brute Behavior Why did they do it? Psychologists have a disturbing answer for why U.S. soldiers acted so badly...
...Fine-tuning at this point, refining, rather than brute-force drilling,” explained...
After all, the team hardly needs brute-force drilling...
...installing the new color units in the quirky basement caverns of The Crimson’s 14 Plympton St. home required a mix of “brute force and finesse,” according to Tom Loesch, president of Impressions Worldwide, which supplied and installed the new equipment...