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...battle weary? Would the troops on the front line, many of whom are thought to be ill-trained draftees who know they are cannon fodder, fight hard or give up quickly? For that matter, how battle ready are American soldiers, hardly any of whom below the rank of colonel have ever been in combat...
...American-made, but their crews are Egyptian. Five miles away, a cluster of British-built Chieftain tanks are poised with their guns pointed toward the border. This detachment is part of a Kuwaiti army brigade that managed to escape the Iraqi invaders. "Our mission," says Colonel Ibrahim Al-Wasmi, the unit's deputy commander, "is to return to Kuwait...
Late in 1986, a member of the National Security Council was showing his guest around the White House. They paused before the painting of a group of dogs. That, said Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, was the President's Cabinet; "the one who's sleeping is Bill Casey...
Five of the cadets involved in the episode have resigned, and action is pending against the remaining three, including the woman. Says academy spokesman Lieut. Colonel Greg Dziuban: "The cadets were there to help their friend break off his relationship. They were going to jump out of the closet, but somehow things got going too quickly. Everyone was clearly aware of the prohibition against sex in the dormitory...
When mutineers led by renegade Colonel Alexander Noble overran three military garrisons in the southern island of Mindanao last week with barely a shot fired, observers 500 miles away in Manila feared that a slow-motion coup attempt was under way. According to that scenario, long touted by the military underground, sympathetic "bloodless" revolts would spring up in Luzon and elsewhere in the country, eventually inducing soldiers in and around Manila -- the fence-sitters of previous uprisings -- to side with the rebels simply by refusing to obey orders from generals loyal to President Corazon Aquino...