Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar condemned reported Allied attacks on civilian traffic...
...vowing to deploy the POWs as human shields at "civilian, economic, educational and other targets," Saddam aimed to curtail the allied aerial campaign, the plan backfired as miserably as his earlier threat to put the now released Western hostages to the same use. "America is angry about this," said an irritated President Bush. "If ((Saddam)) thought this brutal treatment of pilots is the way to muster world support, he is dead wrong." Saddam's tactics also aroused disgust in Europe. "He's a man without pity," said British Prime Minister John Major. Both Bush and Major hinted that they might...
...against the war. What Saddam has apparently failed to grasp is that unlike the shaky policy that maintained the U.S. presence in Vietnam, Bush's goals enjoy the support of the United Nations, a multinational force, Congress and a vast majority of Americans. Moreover, Saddam's blatant disregard for civilians -- his initial holding of unwilling Western "guests," the torture and killing of unarmed Kuwaitis, his ongoing Scud attacks against civilian targets in Israel -- has ensured that he will not be lionized as Ho Chi Minh was during the Vietnam War. If anything, his brutality has strengthened allied public and official...
...fast and suffer the fewest casualties possible. Apart from that, Schwarzkopf is concerned that his long hours in the Riyadh war room prevent him from visiting his troops as often as he would like. When he does venture out, he is always accompanied by four military bodyguards in civilian clothes and armed with AR- 15 rifles. On a recent tour, Schwarzkopf gazed across the Saudi border into Kuwait and declared that it was the most peaceful moment he had had in weeks. Then it was the general speaking: surveying the vast expanse of desert, he pronounced it perfect for tank...
...censorship. The drama in the gulf commands eerie and unprecedented high-tech global attention, and yet the volume of real information about the conduct of the war is small. The public does not know how effective the allied strikes against Iraq have been, for example, or how heavy the civilian casualties may have been. Clausewitz's "fog of war" -- a phrase endlessly repeated these days -- has become a bright electrical cloud of unknowing...