Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offensive struck along a 700-mile line, penetrating Krajina in 30 places. Tudjman threw 100,000 soldiers--the full battle strength of Croatia's army--against about 50,000 Serbs. For the most part, the Croats have been armed from stocks of Soviet weapons that were supposed to be destroyed after the cold war but instead found their way to the black market or were sold to Croatia by Ukraine, despite the U.N.-mandated embargo against trading in arms with the former Yugoslavia. "There is no stopping this now," says one military expert, referring to the offensive. "It is what...
...successful dive, the number of submersibles expanded dramatically. The American Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's workhorse, the three-person Alvin (still in operation), was launched in 1964. And the first robots-on-a-tether--the so-called remotely operated vehicles, or ROVS--were developed several years later. The Soviet Union, France and Japan began building their own submersibles, either for military or scientific reasons, and for the first time scientists could systematically collect animals, plants, rocks and water samples rather than study whatever they could dredge up in collection baskets lowered from the surface...
...propose to hunt? The value of such an investment can only be in its ability as a deterrent; this, in turn, can only work effectively if there is a clarified target. During the Cold War, such a vehicle made excellent sense; it could loom menacingly around the Soviet continent, ready for immediate deployment in the event of a security crisis. In the age of isolated ethnic and regional conflict, the deterrent value of one additional submarine is virtually nil. In fact, unless the conflict directly involves us, it will not even be a factor...
Since the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the final time in 1991, however, things have changed. The days in which we could simply and unilaterally "bomb 'em to hell" when the occasion arose are finished. Regional conflicts call for complicated, multilateral resolutions. And because collective initiative is harder to set in motion, most conflicts are too large in scale by the time action is taken to be conveniently solved by our much-favored hit-and run air -strike. We learned this a little in the Gulf War; the Bosnian conflict has bitterly rubbed...
...OCTOBER Russian candy company fends off the country's first post-Soviet hostile takeover...