Word: expertly
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...computer screens. Identifying tanks and soldiers in pictures beamed back from a KH-11 Keyhole satellite is often a matter of counting dots on a computer monitor. "With 6-in. resolution you get a pixel for each shoulder and one for the head," says John Pike, space intelligence expert at the Federation of American Scientists. "That's hardly enough even to differentiate between military and civilian...
...badly damaged an enemy's forces are, and that is to inspect them after the war is over. "Every country that attempted bomb-damage assessment in modern history has been proved wrong once analysts had a chance to visit the battlefield," says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based expert on Iraq's military. But Saddam Hussein probably has a pretty good idea what condition his troops are in. His last-minute attempts to strike a deal last week may be the best bomb-damage assessment of them...
Despite these strains, the Pentagon asserts that the U.S. and its NATO allies could fight the Soviets in Europe if necessary and at the same time handle a challenge elsewhere. Others are not so sure. "The gulf deployment," says Lawrence Korb, a Brookings Institution military expert and former Defense Department expert on manpower, "puts to rest that idea." Says Washington defense analyst Steven Canby: "Let us pray that we don't face any new threat elsewhere...
...Dimitri Simes, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yeltsin must do more than agitate to throw the bums out. "While people still like him, will still vote for him," says Simes, "they're losing confidence that he can make a difference." But Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, maintains that though Yeltsin's reform ideas may not be detailed, he has as much of a program as anyone in Soviet politics, including Gorbachev...
...first with Secretary of State James Baker. Also taking part was Dennis Ross, director of the policy-planning staff and the State Department's chief expert on the Middle East. What was immediately evident to us was that while taking an interest in the details, Ross listened to my explanation in a reserved way, if not to say quite negatively. The main idea -- making Iraq understand that once troops were withdrawn, we would be ready to discuss the Arab-Israeli issue in order to resolve the Palestinian problem -- drew a decidedly negative response...