Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike the current police chief, Anthony G. Paolillo, who is retiring this spring, the police commissioner will be a civilian appointed from outside the department. The city decided to hire its first-ever commissioner last year, when several city councilors criticized the the department's current leadership structure...
Iraq. Invaded and pillaged Kuwait. Threatened to invade Saudi Arabia. Launched unprovoked, terrorist missile attacks on innocent civilian targets in Israel and called for world-wide terrorist attacks on American interests...
Patrick Clawson, a resident scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, is convinced that the Iraqis "will be in desperate straits by the end of 1991." There is general agreement among civilian experts that the sanctions will inflict severe damage in one to two years. But Clawson adds, "We're seeing a slow deterioration, not a collapse...
...dropped leaflets, to "alter the psychological environment of the battlefield and affect audiences far beyond the confines of the battlefield area." Translation: spread disinformation among the enemy. This unit would also start a free newspaper in liberated Kuwait. If hostilities are carried into Iraq, PSYOP will discourage the civilian population from supporting Saddam's army...
...fight is about upholding international law. Iraq should not have invaded Kuwait. No question. But this rings a bit false coming from the country that just last year was condemned by the United Nations for another "flagrant violation of international law": the invasion of Panama. the number of civilian deaths resulting from the invasion of Panama were of the same order of magnitude as the number of civilian deaths caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait...