Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colonel Lika -- a nom de guerre -- who commands one end of the Serb salient, is absolutely convinced that the Germans are really behind the war. "We are completing a war against German expansion and the creation of a new world order," he says. "The Croats and the Muslims are the tools of a new German expansion and they can be sacrificed." He is not alone in this conviction. "This is a war against Germany and the Pope," insists another fighter. "Germany wants a warmwater Adriatic port." Never mind that this makes no logical sense. Though many who express this view...
...ammunition. Field officers operate with a great deal of independence from the political leadership and think little of overriding the high command's orders when they are inclined to do so. Many soldiers have the same attitude toward their officers as the officers do toward the politicians. A frontline colonel admitted he commands only as long as the men listen to him. "I am willing to listen," says a fighter, "but I decide...
...Colonel Slavko Lisica heads the Doboj Corps. He claims to have 45,000 men -- a gross exaggeration according to intelligence estimates that put the total Serb troops in Bosnia at no more than 90,000 -- under his command, and controls about 400 sq. mi. of territory substantially "cleansed" of Muslims. The situation map behind his desk shows his lines extending like a pointed finger into Muslim territory. All that would be needed to trap the corps would be for the Muslims to cut through the 10-mile-wide base of the finger with an assault on Doboj...
...story told by an Israeli army colonel while driving through blinding sunlight from the Dead Sea to the Jordan River...
...colonel's parents lost seven children in the Nazi death camps. But the parents survived. After the war they made their way to Israel, where they conceived a son (the colonel), whom they called their "miracle child." Though they doted on him and loved him dearly (as may be imagined), they sent him off at an early age to be raised on a kibbutz -- away from his parents. For the Holocaust, the mother and father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory...