Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major exchange in October, casualties on both sides were relatively light. The Israelis put their own losses at five soldiers killed, 26 wounded, two vehicles destroyed, and a Piper Cub downed by a Soviet-made SA-2 missile. The Egyptians admitted to four soldiers killed, 39 wounded and 72 civilian casualties, as well as extensive damage to 14 oil tanks at the Suez and Nasr refineries...
Ideally, decisions concerning complicated weaponry?and the Sentinel system is one of the most complicated ever devised?should be the quiet business of Government: its civilian leaders, military men and scientists. That has not been so with the ABM, as the defensive system is now known. The question of whether the U.S. should install an ABM network?and how extensive that network should be?has suddenly become a national issue that has immense strategic, political and social ramifications for the American people and perhaps the rest of the world. The debate over that issue, warned New York Republican Senator Jacob...
...Syria's feuding with Iraq, moreover, he saw his hopes for a united Arab "eastern command" dashed. Two weeks ago, when Israeli Mirage jets raided Arab commando camps in Syria and, ac cording to Tel Aviv, shot down two ob solescent MIG-17s, Assad suffered fur ther humiliation. Civilian leaders criticized his forces' antiaircraft skills...
...lunch for a normal afternoon's work. But it had been a close call. The cyclo contained a Claymore mine and two pounds of plastique. The combination failed to ignite, and despite all the shooting, no one was injured. The attacker, still wearing the Ranger uniform, and a civilian were arrested and later interrogated by Huong's personal security...
Track C. The Army is also revising its curriculum to include more academically oriented courses. At eleven campuses, it is now testing an experimental course known as Track C, which uses local civilian instructors to teach cadets in their first two years. In the course entitled "Concepts of Warfare and National Defense," for example, civilians teach the political, economic and geographical aspects while an Army officer expounds on the military side. In addition, the Army has raised the academic credentials of its professors of military science; it now demands that they hold at least a master's degree...