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...Edward Luttwak was not impressed. Said he: "The fact that they do not stress readiness as much as we do may say something about their idea of who will strike first; readiness is only important for the side being surprised...
...control of oil power is power itself--military power," in the immortal wordes of "Miles Ignotus" (Latin for unknown soldier), described by Harper's as a "Washington-based professor and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level US policy makers" and rumored to be the pseudonym for Edward Luttwak, a well-known conservative "defense" intellectual close to Washinton's defense and "intelligence community...
Generally, the agreement seems to pose no new strategic danger for either side. Its merit is that it seeks to place some kind of cap on nuclear development-even though that cap does not fit very tightly. Observes Edward Luttwak, a Pentagon strategist: "The Air Force and the Navy can keep building whatever they want." So, of course, can the Soviet forces. Indeed, as each side maneuvers for the strongest possible position within the new arms limits, pressures toward a multibillion-dollar race to improve weapons may prove irresistible. By 1985, when the projected pact would...
...attrition against Israeli defenses in the Sinai. But in the current war, the Israelis find themselves also facing the SA-6, a Soviet-built missile so new that it has never before been used in combat. In fact, according to British Military Analyst Edward Luttwak, the Soviet army itself has only limited quantities of the SA-6. Lethally accurate, it is responsible for downing most of the 70-odd American-made F-4E Phantoms and A-4E Skyhawks that Israel lost in the first week...
...shot. In South Korea, a mere 3,500 men in an army of 600,000 put General Park Chung Hee in power. Luttwak's little classic explains how so few can fool so many. By revealing the necessary delicacy of timing-a single miscalculation of hours or minutes can send the plotters to their execution-he also shows how easy it is to prevent a coup. In his appendices Luttwak offers other advice for despots eager to cling to their posts. It resembles that given by one of the tyrants of ancient Greece. Asked how it was that...