Word: onslaught
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...Even if Kim should fall to a U.S. onslaught, it's unlikely there will be post-overthrow photographs of joyful North Koreans celebrating the demise of their oppressor. Kim keeps the public in constant fear of a U.S. attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden...
Saddam Hussein must have known that the Republican Guard could not stop the advance of the U.S. military on Baghdad, but he might have imagined it could slow the onslaught. As U.S. forces swept through Iraq from Kuwait, the Iraqi command deployed four divisions--the Baghdad, Medina, Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi--south of the capital in two defensive arcs. The outer arc, about 100 miles long, stretched roughly from Karbala to Kut. The inner one, some 30 miles long, extended from Yusufiyah to Suwayrah. Just how many troops this involved is unclear. On paper, each of the four divisions had roughly...
During their onslaught against the Republican Guard in the southern approaches to Baghdad, U.S. military commanders had grim words to describe what they were doing to the elite Iraqi forces. "I find it interesting when folks say we're softening them up," Air Force Lieut. General T. Michael Moseley, the air-war commander, said on April 5, the day the U.S. Army entered Baghdad. "We're not softening them up. We're killing them." Later on, in its assessment of the damage the U.S. had wrought, the Pentagon focused on devastation to the Guard's armor, concluding, for example, that...
Larry has sometimes wondered, in his feistily Socratic way, whether the onslaught of extracurricular activity is distracting students from their true academic business. I have always stressed that my primary purpose is not to advocate a particular position. I just want the arts to be seriously reconsidered, and I think Larry, Steve Hyman, Bill Kirby and Dick Gross are likely to do just that...