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...strategy got its first real test in Operation Desert Storm, when 228,500 Guard members and reservists were called up for active duty in the biggest mobilization since the Korean War. More than 100,000 of these part-time soldiers were sent to the Persian Gulf, while the remainder filled in Stateside for the departing regular forces...
...know O rings could stiffen in the cold. It is no knock on the spacemanship of the astronauts to admit that space is a difficult and dangerous place -- just on the salesmanship of the agency that put them there. NASA's strategy resembles George Bush's in the Persian Gulf: get the troops over there, and then the people will have to support them. NASA has always believed it has to put people in space in order to have public support. The folly of the space shuttle was that it put human lives at the center of every space operation...
During the Persian Gulf war, George Bush knew that he needed both his domestic constituents and his international peers on his side. And he had them...
Fortunately -- and this is a real luxury for magazine journalists -- we could wait until the war was over, and events began to move into historical perspective, before we sent the chapters off to press. The result of these efforts is Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf, a 240-page hardback volume that began appearing in bookstores last week. The book, which is being published by the Time Inc. Book Co. and distributed by Little, Brown and Co., contains 129 color and black-and-white illustrations, many of which have never been published...
...reason for hesitancy is that the Western powers are a long way from agreeing on an answer to Gorbachev's pleas for aid. Though Gorbachev has not mentioned a precise sum (he did say last week that if the West could spend $100 billion on the Persian Gulf war, substantial funds should be found to save perestroika), aid on a scale large enough to be effective would be very expensive: $30 billion over five years is an often mentioned figure. The Western nations are by no means sure they either can or should spare the money. "Why give pennies...