Word: chessboard
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Perhaps the most profound development, in the view of many specialists, is that the Middle East alignment has been altered. Says Harvard Professor of Government Nadav Safran: "The whole chessboard has been changed by the move of one of the major pieces on that board-Egypt." This move significantly reduces the chances of yet another war in the region. Explains American University President Joseph Sisco, who was the State Department's chief Middle East adviser under Henry Kissinger: "Without Egyptian participation, war is simply not a viable Arab option at this point. The treaty thus deepens the irreversibility...
Addressing the military aspect of such a strategy, Luttwak suggested "putting some more forces back on the East-West chessboard. We should not do it with pawns such as ground troops but with queens and bishops, like high-technology weapons." Agreeing with this somewhat, Hyland nonetheless wondered whether such a move would be politically feasible. He said that "we Americans do not like long, protracted struggles or conflicts. So we are constantly driven to find some simplistic solutions-SALT, détente and others-to the problem. But there is no easy or quick substitute for being prepared to confront...
Replacements, shifts and even some mysterious deaths among the Chinese military have provided further evidence of Hua's continuing struggle to put down opposition to his post-Mao regime. Last month eight generals were shifted from garrison to garrison like so many foot soldiers or pawns on a Chinese chessboard. One Hua supporter, General Fu Ch'ung-pi, was appointed commander of the Peking garrison?a highly strategic position...
From the time of Caesar's Commentaries onward, military historians have tended to treat armed combat as a means to larger political ends or the chessboard on which generals tested strategy. There are, to be sure, shelves of How-I-Suffered-in-the-War stories. But Keegan wanted something more, a broad, systematic answer to the question that most bothered his Sandhurst students: "What is it like to be in a battle...
...unlikely that Nixon was too gravely disturbed by the evidence of South Korean subversion, even if the object of the activities was the United States government. It is all too easy to conjure the nightmare of two despots like Presidents Nixon and Park, plotting over a global chessboard--with their own countries as sacrificial pawns...