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Part of the problem with overall U.S. strategy, reformers say, is that it is based too much on attrition warfare, relying on heavy weaponry and long supply lines to overpower an enemy along fixed fronts. Even the new Rapid Deployment Force has become bogged down with such weapons as the...
Although the Pentagon is uncomfortable with much of what the reformers propose, some of the military's doctrines have been evolving in a direction that emphasizes maneuver warfare. An example is the Army plan called AirLand Battle. The idea is for the first line of allied defenders to confront...
Even before the election campaign began, however, Kohl's rosy political prospects started to fade. First, a wave of sympathy began to build for the defeated Schmidt, whose term of office ended when the small, centrist Free Democratic Party deserted his coalition to join Kohl's conservative alignment...
It was also a highly provocative maneuver. The area chosen for the exercise is part of a surreptitious battleground used by Nicaraguan exiles in a growing counter-revolutionary war against their homeland. U.S. Air Force pilots learned about the covert war the hard way during Big Pine: two days after...
A former Ambassador to Hungary, Andropov was chosen by Brezhnev in 1967 to continue the gradual "politicization" of the KGB. He took over a security service still demoralized after several reorganizations. Andropov set about winning friends among the power groups hostile to the secret police. The military, for example, has...