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...high-technology weapons proliferation, the cry of strategic depth has become a swan song. Sharon cited the recent wave of Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel as a preview of the type of activity (this time in range of major cities) that Palestinians would undertake given any autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza. But the short-range Katyushas of today will very soon be medium range SCUDS from North Korea. In the face of advancing technology, a country whose survival depends on "strategic depth" will find itself in an awful bind, needing more and more depth to offer...
...gliders and small planes. Popov quickly discovered that conventional chutes would not work because most accidents happen so close to the ground that the canopies do not have enough time to inflate. To get around that problem, Popov devised a parachute that could be completely deployed by a tiny rocket in a matter of seconds. Since then, the company he founded to make the product, Ballistic Recovery Systems of South St. Paul, Minnesota, has sold 10,000 parachute systems for ultralight and homemade aircraft and, he says, has saved 73 lives...
...takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft's engine conks or another plane clips the Cessna's tail off, all the pilot has to do is pull a handle in the cockpit. That ignites the rocket, which deploys the parachute. The plane drifts to earth for a safe, if still somewhat bumpy landing...
...third of the Arab neighbors with which Israel has been at odds. Israeli military forces still occupy a self-proclaimed security zone in southern Lebanon that they seized during the 1978 invasion. Guerrillas there killed seven Israeli soldiers in early summer, touching off escalating exchanges of artillery and rocket fire and eventually Israeli air strikes; when the smoke cleared, about 300,000 Lebanese refugees had been driven northward to escape the conflict. Lebanon, however, has become a satellite of Syria in everything but name; if Israel can negotiate an agreement with Damascus, Beirut should follow quickly...
...will be to stage large-scale terrorist operations into Israel. The Israelis will still command the bridge connecting Jordan and Jericho, but they will no longer control Gaza port. Today the Palestinians have no missiles that can reach Israel from the occupied territories, but a simple, crude Katyusha rocket smuggled in by sea could hit the Israeli city of Ashkelon, only eight miles away...