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...situations are not analogous, except in one sense: the consequences of military action are unpredictable. I learned this as Secretary time after time after time: we did certain things we thought would lead to certain results, and the results were different. The Soviets have learned the same thing. Nobody predicted at any particular point in the 1960s the evolution of events in Vietnam. And I think what Powell and Schwarzkopf and the Marine generals have said here, and said very responsibly, is "We can predict the outcome but not the blood costs, particularly; we know...
Such an increase in older faculty could lead to substantial policy changes, some administrators predict--policies which some say would throw the security of tenure into question. For instance, Harvard may institute a plan that asks scholars to review their colleagues, to judge whether they are remaining productive...
...pass that when the story of the gulf war is sifted and studied, the achievements of four-star Army General H. (for nothing) Norman Schwarzkopf will rank with those of Montgomery and Eisenhower and Alexander the Great -- or George McClellan and William Westmoreland. It is too early to predict how well or badly the war may go. Many battles are yet to be fought; many men are yet to die; thousands of innocent people are yet to suffer; a sure peace is yet to be forged...
...which Hannibal in 216 crushed the forces of Rome. "It was the first real war of annihilation, the kind Norman wanted to fight." He desperately wanted to lead his country's forces into a major battle. "We'd talk about these things in the wee hours, and Norman would predict not only that he would lead a major American army into combat, but that it would be a battle decisive to the nation...
Although professors disagree about the course of U.S. policy, most Middle East experts here are unanimous in their sense that the war will have serious consequences that may not have been fully considered. Most say they cannot even begin to predict what a post-war Middle East will look like...