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...Congress balked at a U.N. request that the U.S. pay 31 percent of the cost, President Clinton has been seeking other sources of financing. One idea is for the U.S. to contribute equipment to the force instead of cash. And, much as the Bush Administration did during the Persian Gulf War, Clinton will appeal to wealthy Persian Gulf and Asian countries to help out with...
...this high? Pulling back the curtain on the Pentagon's battle plan discloses a patchwork of arbitrary decisions and inflated threats. In 1993 the Administration concluded that the U.S. military needed enough forces to win two "major regional contingencies," each akin to the Persian Gulf War, at the same time. But there is growing sentiment in defense circles that the nation's two-war strategy is wrong, at least in light of expected funding levels. "The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high budget," says Pentagon cost analyst Franklin Spinney. A study by the Center...
...past six years, the military has deployed its clandestine units of spies in Panama, the Persian Gulf and Somalia, among other places. The U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force operatives, who number nearly 1,000 (compared with the CIA's 5,000), will be centralized by October under the existing Defense Intelligence Agency, an outfit that for the most part analyzes the data collected by the CIA, the Pentagon's satellites and defense attaches at U.S. embassies. Centralized discipline is designed to correct past problems of rogue agentry and wasteful spending...
...style did him in. "He was consumed by his work, and it ultimately proved his downfall," Thompson says. "He was not a manager, and that was really unfortunate, because he had a lot of good things to say. Among Democratic lawmakers, he was the only one who called the Persian Gulf war right...
...assisting the fbi in the search for McVeigh's accomplices. McVeigh spent his military career in a single 110-man unit-what the military once called a "cohort unit." Membership in such a unit meant that McVeigh went through basic training, on to Fort Riley and then to the Persian Gulf War with the same individuals. fbi agents are tracking down and questioning members of McVeigh's unit. "We're not saying this contributed to his problems," one Army official said, "but it meant he spent a long time with the same people, developing relationships. That could cause trouble...