Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these people are conflict, and the tactics employed in Korea and in Vietnam tend to show that "fire power-attrition" is questionable, something should be done to bring this matter to the attention of as many voters as possible before Administration budgets commit this country to more of the same...
...Israel invaded Lebanon, Prime Minister Begin cited the example of Britain's act of self-defense, thus justifying his own nation's move. Other analogies are more certain. Both the British and the Israelis applied short-term solutions to long-range problems. Both could have avoided armed conflict through negotiations (though this would have been harder for the Israelis), but either because of carelessness, stubbornness, arrogance or suspicion, each chose not to. Both told their allies that what they were doing was good not only for themselves but for the world as well. Both saw themselves functioning as liberators. Both...
...Buenos Aires warned that any cease-fire in the Falklands would be "precarious" so long as British forces remained on the islands. While the Argentines seemed willing to suspend hostilities for the moment, they left open the possibility of further fighting. If the fragile cease-fire broke down, the conflict could easily escalate into a new and possibly even more violent confrontation, since the British have not ruled out the possibility of answering additional attacks with the bombing of Argentine airbases and the mining of Argentine harbors...
...effective airborne early-warning system to protect its naval task force from surprise air attacks, the British asked to borrow an undisclosed number of U.S. AWACS. Washington refused on the grounds that American servicemen, who would be necessary to man the aircraft, should not become involved in the conflict...
...other Warsaw Pact nations maintain in Europe. In the American view, a Western no-first-use pledge would remove a powerful deterrent to a Soviet attack in Western Europe, and thus increase the danger of a war that would start out with conventional weapons but rapidly escalate into nuclear conflict. The presumption: whichever side was losing the conventional arms struggle would be sorely tempted to use nuclear weapons, whatever promises it had made...