Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...orders and local commanders who ignored them. Should the outside world be less worried about Russia's military prowess because the army seemed for the moment incapable of acting as an instrument of aggression? Or more worried that generals who still control nuclear weaponry scorn the commands of their civilian superiors...
Russian bombers were supposed to target the Grozny television tower, the rail terminal, the presidential palace and a few military installations. But the air strikes went badly from the first, hitting residential buildings, dropping flesh-shredding cluster bombs and touching off a worldwide cry of outrage at the high civilian casualties. Some critics accused Yeltsin of trying to terrorize the Chechens with indiscriminate bombing, but military experts do not see it that way. "The bombing," says a U.S. Air Force officer, "doesn't look like terror as much as incompetence. A lot of them can't find the targets they...
...soldier and a Haitian civilian were killed in an exchange of gunfire at a checkpoint in the Haitian village of Gonaives this morning. Another soldier was also injured when a pickup truck rammed into the checkpoint and the passenger came out shooting. U.S. troops killed the attacker. Although the incident appears isolated, TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says, it has ended a "long string of good luck" in the U.S. peacekeeping operation. "There's been a sense of, how long can this last? But it looks like the American military has responded quite forcefully."U.S. troops will transfer authority...
...supplies to reach its residents freely for the first time in months. The four-month old cease-fire now is holding for most of Bosnia with the sole exception of Bihac, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslim leaders continue to shell government-held areas. Sarajevo has been closed to civilian traffic since July...
...legal ramifications of the Chechen war are cloudy, the means the Russians have used leave little room for ambiguity. Their indiscriminate bombings of civilian populations are clear violations of the rules of war and the dictates of decency. It is these humanitarian violations more than anything else that have turned the tide of world opinion against the Russian invasion. Moreover, the Russian people seem to have little stomach for the war, which has been greatly unpopular since its initiation almost a month...