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...have enough troops to do what needs to be done now," Shalikashvili told me. Second, these would have to be real soldiers, mentally tough, physically fit and combat ready. "Any peaceful checkpoint can become a battlefield in a heartbeat," said retired Major General Bill Nash, who commanded U.S. troops in Bosnia. There is fierce disdain within the Pentagon for the passive U.N. peacekeepers who stood by while thousands were murdered in Bosnia's ethnic cleansing. Finally, the Extreme Peacekeepers would have to be placed within the existing Army command structure, most likely in the special-operations command-home...
...know where to drop them." What's needed is intimate knowledge of neighborhoods where the insurgents gather. And that's something the U.S. and its coalition allies lack. "The U.S. Army does not have a fraction of the linguists required to operate in the Central Command's area of responsibility," says a report from the Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
Does China's success in manned space flight command our respect? As long as the communist government there continues to deprive the Chinese of their basic human rights, the answer is a resounding no. It is well known that there are numerous democracy advocates, religious workers and protesters against corruption incarcerated in Chinese jails and labor camps. Whether China's space program is being developed for peace or war is yet to be seen. But freedom-loving people of the world need to be vigilant against dark forces. Timothy Ho Anaheim, Calif...
...that's everybody--you're at risk of inconvenience, intrusion or, technologists fear, much worse. Building better defenses to protect home computers, business networks and civic infrastructure must therefore be--however cliched it is to say--the Next Big Thing. In 1999 security incidents reported to the CERT Command Center, a federally funded research group, totaled 9,859; from January to September of this year, there were 114,855. Security spending has grown 28% a year since 2001, the Gartner research firm reports, while overall tech budgets have expanded just 6%. And a three-day war game in July...
...Intensifying the unpredictability were the President's starkly contradictory actions. Kumaratunga declared a state of emergency, then declined to sign the order two days later. Nevertheless, she then ordered a nationwide deployment of the army, which subsequently denied receiving any such command. Announcing that the President was assuming control of the peace negotiations?which have been led by Wickremesinghe and are being brokered by the Norwegian government?her spokesman said the cease-fire with the LTTE "will stand." Kumaratunga then declared the cessation "invalid" but said, "My commitment to peace is total." Most worryingly, in two addresses to the nation...