Word: protractedness
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Perhaps the American people lost that presumption when they elected and re-elected Bill Clinton, but then again, history tells too many sad stories in which demagogues exploit decent and honest people. The more disturbing indictment of the American people comes from public opinion polls taken since the Monica S...
But the more offhand and random the brutality of the Serb rulers, the stronger the support for the emerging nationalist K.L.A. The Vojnik uprising looks like the start of a bloody, protracted guerrilla war that could spill over into the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where 350 American troops are...
WASHINGTON: It's official: The United States can no longer win a nuclear war. At least, not a protracted one. From the late 1940s until yesterday, the Pentagon was technically allowed to bomb the blazes out of any foreign power, take their nukes on the chin, and sit tight in...
Still, the first directive on nuclear war since Reagan shows that the finger on the button is also on ? or near ? the national pulse. "I'm not sure that many people believed there was some credible definition of what it would mean to prevail in a protracted nuclear war," said...
Clinton Nixes Nuke Option The President has excised protracted thermonuclear exchange from the Pentagon?s playbook, but limited use of nuclear weapons remains an option.