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...start rebuilding the city. (For one thing, if the history of the last war is anything to go by, Moscow's tenure there may be far from eternal.) Instead, Moscow appears set to simply leave Grozny in ruins as a warning to Chechens and other peoples in the restive Caucasus of the price of trying to secede. Of course that would make the shattered city also symbolize Russia's political failure in the region...
...issues. They equally support America's blank check security guarantee to Taiwan. Both have come out in support of NATO's expansion. McCain has spoken in favor of the Bosnian and Kosovar campaigns while Bush one-ups him with his vague promises to lend "support" to "the Baltics, the Caucasus Central Asia and the Ukraine" by "promoting regional peace." And neither seems to have any qualms about the humanitarian implications of America's interventionism...
...kill public support for the war is body bags; they destroy his promise of a low-casualty victory. Though neither side is telling the truth, Russian casualties are plainly mounting fast and becoming harder to hide. Late last week the military admitted that 742 soldiers have died since Caucasus military operations began last August. Two weeks ago they acknowledged 465 dead. Even by those highly suspect statistics, Russia has suffered almost 190 deaths in the past two weeks. In fact, the total war tally is almost double the official figures, a source told TIME: around 1,300 dead, 300 missing...
Caliphs in Cairo, Cordoba and Baghdad rend the unity of Islam, but not the prosperity. Gold from Nubia and the Caucasus is mined into dinars, the common currency from Spain to Lahore; and slaves from Asia, Europe and Africa labor in mines, cities, armies and harems from Cadiz to Samarkand. Meanwhile, Europe is still limping out of the Dark Ages...
Russia's generals have learned some hard lessons. After the blood-soaked debacle of the last attempt to subdue Chechnya during 1994-1996, war gamers went back to the doctrine of the ferocious Russian who first conquered the Caucasus, 19th century general Alexei Yermolov: use siege warfare rather than frontal assault. Make slow advances under cover of heavy guns and bombardment. Avoid close encounters with a lightly armed but fearsome enemy. Applying these principles in their current campaign, which began in late September, Moscow's generals aimed to grind down the rebel force until the remnants would flee back into...