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...Bundeswehr in 1971, took command of an armored tank division in 1976, then moved to a high-level staff job at the defense ministry in Bonn. In 1982, after Kiessling became a deputy to U.S. Army General Bernard Rogers, the NATO Commander, his progress was halted. A personality clash with Rogers apparently encouraged Kiessling to take early retirement effective next April. In September, Kiessling cleaned out his office at NATO headquarters in Casteau. Belgium, and shortly before Christmas he was relieved of his command...
...Proxy wars. Careful as they have been to avoid a military clash, the superpowers run a constant risk of being dragged into one by the action of allies or clients they cannot control. One example: if the incessant factional strife
...Lebanon broadens into a general Middle East war, Syria could call on Moscow to intervene militarily under a 1980 treaty. The ambassadorial exchanges between Washington and Moscow on avoiding a clash would have a greater chance of success if diplomatic contacts between the two capitals were more frequent and less antagonistic...
...tomorrow, then of a long period of angry immobility in superpower relations; of an escalating arms race bringing into U.S. and Soviet arsenals weapons ever more expensive and difficult to control; of rising tension that might make every world trouble spot a potential flash point for the clash both sides fear. The deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations to that frozen impasse overshadowed all other events of 1983. In shaping plans for the future, every statesman in the world and very nearly every private citizen has to calculate what may come of the face-off between the countries whose leaders?...
...through Damascus, and this includes showing the Americans he can hurt them." With both U.S. and Soviet soldiers in the region, that strategy also risks igniting a superpower clash...