Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Days passed. The Joint Chiefs of Staff resisted sending the Independence, arguing that such a force, obviously no more than a token, would be no match for Saddam's giant war machine. Just before the invasion, with the Iraqi army now poised for assault, the White House overruled the Pentagon's concerns and ordered the warships toward the gulf. The decision probably came too late to impress Saddam...
...hours later, at 5 p.m., senior State Department officials, joined by representatives from the Defense Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the White House and the CIA, met behind closed doors in Secretary of Defense James Baker's conference room. There, CIA Deputy Director Richard Kerr made an ominous prediction: Iraq would invade within six to 12 hours. At 8:30 that evening, Kerr's prediction came true...
...potentially fatal pitfalls facing such an ungainly coalition. Yet the so-called AirLand strategy, adopted in the 1980s by NATO as a counter to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, proved to be more than a knockout military punch. Because NATO relies on a central command of joint forces, the doctrine managed surprisingly well to integrate the polyglot gulf alliance...
...anything, we have made sure every step of the way to coordinate our actions with the BSA to make sure we would not do anything to which the BSA objected. Our joint statement should have made it clear to everyone that we were united against both the Confederate flag and the swastika. Not only have we succeeded in preserving the relationship between Hillel and the BSA, we have strengthened it enormously...
Several days before, Hillel and the Black Students Association (BSA) had released a joint letter condemning the display of both swastikas and confederate flags. And early this week, groups organized by BSA held "eat-ins" in the Kirkland and Cabot dining halls. At the eat-ins, the association's president, Mecca J. Nelson '92, called for a strong response to the Confederate flags from University and College administrators, including "a policy that will prevent this kind of thing in the future...