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...fierce night attacks and sweeping armored maneuvers, all supported by highly lethal area weapons and long-range precision-kill capabilities. Political constraints will be relaxed, and control of the actions will be delegated to on-scene commanders. Unfortunately, significantly greater casualty rates can be expected among both military and civilian populations...
Soldiers pouring from such aircraft will be climbing into wheeled vehicles, not the tracked tanks that have been the backbone of Army armor for more than a half-century. The civilian world's fascination with off-road vehicles has generated improvements the military wants for itself. Twenty years ago, only tracked vehicles could traverse squishy terrain. Today tire pressure can be adjusted from inside the cab--the softer the ground, the softer the tires--meaning heavy, tracked vehicles no longer have a monopoly on mobility. "If technology permits," says Shinseki, in what some of his colleagues see as battlefield blasphemy...
...looting. The West urged Nigeria to take charge, and in February 1998 the ECOMOG intervention force seized Freetown, restored Kabbah to power and arrested Foday Sankoh, who was later sentenced to death. But a year later, the RUF overwhelmed ECOMOG and recaptured the capital, freeing Sankoh and savaging the civilian population. Government control was only restored after weeks of fierce fighting, in which Nigerian troops at times matched the brutality of the rebel fighters...
...become infamous in the past year for recently revealed human rights abuses. Fueled by a diamond smuggling operation, the RUF has forced natives to hunt for diamonds. The RUF has stormed civilian villages and amputated legs and arms of civilian men who are prominent in the community...
...term insurgency, and when ECOMOG withdrew recently, complaining that the mission was too costly, the RUF became emboldened. The peace deal was supposed to mean giving up their control over the diamond fields, but that wasn't something an exceedingly brutal army - which had adopted systematic dismembering of the civilian population as a tactic of war - was willing...