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There are many other troubling assumptions in our strategic thinking. For example, what is one to make of the threat to inflict "unacceptable damage on the enemy should he strike? Who has ever defined "unacceptable damage?" using what standards? and whose norms? I will pass over these matters, however, to proceed to an issue of especially grave importance for the U.S.-USSR military competition, namely the concept "strategic" itself...
...generals do not deny the possibility of conventional engagements between the major powers, but they look upon these as mere skirmishes in a protracted conflict in which the employment of strategic weapons will prove crucial. It will be crucial because the punishment which the enemy's nuclear missiles can inflict on one's armed forces--the troops, their command, and their logistic support--is potentially so devastating that no commander can consider deploying them for combat until and unless this threat has been substantially lifted. This, of course, entails preemption, and its literature leaves no doubt that the Soviet Union...
...strength. Since the Gospels are basically collections of episodes that were set down for inspiration and information, a film that follows them faithfully cannot help jumping from event to event without much narrative flow. However, the movie is also mercifully spared the hype that commercial film makers usually inflict on biographies of Christ, as in Nicholas Ray's 1961 remake of Cecil B. DeMille's silent epic King of Kings and George Stevens' overwrought 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told. In this new film, there is no digression into the sexual enticements of Salome, no subplot...
Pirate starter and winner Candelaria fought off a sore back, a sore shoulder, and pulled rib cage muscles to inflict real pain on the Orioles. Helped by two double plays, he held the Birds, who got the leadoff man on base 4 times, in check for six strong innings...
...fierce battle in the Senate for ratification. The fight will be fierce because SALT'S opponents, who believe the treaty concedes a perilous degree of Soviet superiority, are determined and well organized. They number almost one-quarter of the Senate, and need only one-third to block ratification and inflict a disastrous defeat on Carter's presidency...