Word: commandant
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Since the day Bill Clinton was sworn in, his command over the armed forces has suffered from the sort of contempt rarely shown by the men and women in uniform toward a newly minted President. Believing that 12 years of Republican indulgence has habituated the military to calling its own shots, the President has dreamed of reaffirming civilian leadership over the Pentagon. But his hands have been tied both by his image as a draft dodger and by the popularity and political adroitness of General Colin Powell, the extraordinary Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who virtually dictated...
...mainstream military -- a lot of Baptist, small-town Southern boys. Administration sources also confirmed that over the next five years Clinton may be prepared to spend up to $20 billion more on defense than he originally promised. With Les able to offer more, Clinton might finally take real command at the Pentagon...
...threat has catalyzed events in a way that forces all sides into critical decisions this week: NATO will have to decide what to bomb and under whose command. In order to avoid being bombed, the Serbs must demonstrate that they will live up to their promise to pull back a step from Sarajevo. Izetbegovic and the Bosnians will have to choose between defeat at Geneva and extinction. And all these decisions must be made at roughly the same time...
...opposed any action other than the most limited retaliation for attacks on U.N. forces. Eventually the allies cobbled together a compromise committing the alliance to prepare air strikes but not specifying when or how to undertake them. They left undecided knotty issues of whether the U.N. or NATO would command the strikes, the range of acceptable targets and the degree of Serb aggression necessary to trigger the raids...
...Sword family now resides in Fairfax, Virginia. Sword's father, Rod, is a colonel in the Canadian Air Force, and serves as liaison to the United States Air Force Command, according to a family friend...