Word: krepinevich
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...Pentagon likes to say that if its forces are attacked, they will prove themselves the meanest dog in town. That might be true if one armed unit confronts another, but, says Andrew Krepinevich, a retired officer who heads the Defense Budget Project in Washington, the analogy works only for dogfights. "Those who might target U.S. forces," he says, "might compete not as dogs but as fleas." In other words, sniping, ambushes, car bombs and other kinds of terrorism do not offer clear targets for U.S. retaliation...
...battlefield. There will, no doubt, be bureaucratic and even cultural opposition within the military to this new form of fighting. "It's a lot easier to pick up girls in the bar if you're a fighter-wing commander than if you command a drone wing," says Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who directs the Defense Budget Project, a think tank on the military...