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...China has indicated that it plans to send civilian diplomats to that meeting, and it's not yet clear whether we'll do the same or send military guys. Plainly, the reason we got all wrapped around the axle here was because of miscommunication between China's military and civilian leaders, and we don't want to do anything to complicate matters on that front...
...Cold War, most military confrontations were strategic stand-offs between the world’s superpowers. Now, most armed conflicts are ethnic civil wars in small countries. And unfortunately, the primary aim of this new warfare has been to inflict as much misery as possible on the civilian population of the other side, as demonstrated by the civil wars in the Balkans and Rwanda...
...Israeli authorities apprehended a terrorist cell in Ramallah led by a member of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s personal guard, which admitted responsibility for eight separate lethal attacks and confessed that they had been on their way to lay several bombs in Jerusalem’s civilian centers. Then another cell of four Palestinian terrorists, including a Palestinian policeman, were apprehended trying to leave Hebron, also on their way to carry out an attack. The IDF termed the closure a success and it was lifted. The following day a Palestinian walked out of Bethlehem down...
...here? Images of war have long helped sway opinion: the summary execution of a Viet Cong by a South Vietnamese police chief defined that war's casual cruelty. But victim photographs have usually better served the outgunned, like Iraqis leading media tours of purportedly civilian sites bombed during the Gulf War. For the overdog, the device risks showing weakness: pictures of American POWs in Vietnam undermined rather than galvanized support at home. But the Israelis, who in the first intifadeh suffered the ill p.r. effects of pictures of their soldiers firing on rock-throwing protesters, have learned that a measured...
Several senior officers on the submarine testified that they thought Waddle was going through the emergency-ascent routine too quickly but did not want to challenge him with civilians present in the control room. During the inquiry, Rear Admiral Albert Konetzni, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force, looked over at Waddle in the courtroom and said, "He is like my brother, if not my son. I'd like to go over there and punch him for not taking more time." But Waddle rigorously defended the procedures onboard the Greeneville, denying that he had cut corners on safety...