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That's because the 6-ft. 5-in. Shelton already commands a force that the rest of the military must learn to emulate: the small (47,000 strong), highly mobile Special Operations Command, which includes Green Berets, Navy seals and other elite commandos from all branches of the military. With just 1.4% of U.S. troops, Special Ops responds to the kind of hit-and-run warfare--skirmishes, insurgencies and terrorism--that lie ahead for the nation. As Shelton recently warned Congress, the U.S. military must "transcend traditional force-on-force applications" if it is to remain "relevant...
Araskog keeps intact his perfect record in takeover wars, although his empire is shrinking. When he took command in 1979, ITT had sales of $22 billion. His new outfit will have sales of $5.5 billion. That's a play on an old adage too: How do you make a small corporation? Start with a large...
MARRIED. KARENNA GORE, 23, first daughter of the nation's second-in-command; and primary-care physician ANDREW SCHIFF, 31; in Washington...
...Japanese baseball. The American media wanted a good show, but they also didn't want to see the insufferable George Steinbrenner have the last laugh. The hours before the game were filled with several angry confrontations between sportswriters and Yankee officials, who kept the clubhouse closed at Steinbrenner's command. The owner, not choosing his words carefully enough, said, "I'm just trying to give the players a little asylum down there...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Green Beret commander Henry Shelton is next up to run the gauntlet in hopes of emerging as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having been recommended for the post by William Cohen. If confirmed, Shelton,55, would be the first Special Operations officer to serve as the country's military advisor supremo. The ground commander for the 1994 U.S. invasion of Haiti and the head of the Special Operations Command, Shelton is by all accounts a no-nonsense muti-service military man in a multitask world. Which fits the agenda that awaits him: smoothing...