Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that a cease-fire could permit some repairs and possible adjustments of Iraqi forces. These benefits could be minimized by the terms of the allied announcement of a truce, which might preclude the rebuilding of bridges or the redeployment of armored units. Pinpoint attacks by our smart bombs could stop these actions even during the respite period...
This profile has confounded some traditions about what makes a good soldier. Military conventional wisdom warns against infantry soldiers who are too smart or inclined to dwell on the risks entailed in combat. "But you can't have space-age hardware without space-age personnel," says Lieut. Colonel Alexander Angelle, a former recruiting officer now in the gulf. "Some people ask, 'Don't street fighters make better soldiers?' The answer is 'No, they don't.' They require more discipline and are less able to get the job done...
...erode once ground fighting commences. No doubt, some will. But the same public opinion polls that now show war approval rates as high as 90 percent also reveal that a growing majority expects a long and hard struggle. Far from being just temporarily titilated by the precision of smart bombs and Patriot missiles, Americans appear willing to stomach the messiness inflicted by tanks and rifles...
...friendly fire, in a clash near the Kuwait border. On Feb. 9 he returned home to Coulterville in a flag-draped casket, both a hero and a haunting reminder of war's real cost. His handsome freckled face reflects the human toll of a conflict sanitized by high-tech smart bombs and camouflaged by antiseptic acronyms like KIA (killed in action...
Clarice Starling, FBI trainee, is one smart cookie, brighter and more acutely intuitive than the men in charge. Yet she treats them all -- bosses, bureaucrats, the occasional serial killer -- with an elaborate respect whose irony shows only at the cutting edges. When an asylum director sneers that Starling has wasted his time, she replies, "Yessir, but then I would've missed the pleasure of your company, sir." That second sir is the smooth stiletto...