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...Chaos or repression? A Soviet strategist argues for a third alternative...
When General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked to evaluate Saddam Hussein as a military leader last week, the allied commander telegraphed his answer with a derisive "Ha!" Then, with studied scorn, Schwarzkopf elaborated, "He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military...
...most profitable quarter in nearly a year. Assets of mutual funds -- including risky small-company and junk-bond funds -- grew a record $59 billion in January, and the frenetic pace continued in February. "This is the first popular war since World War II," explains Bill LeFevre, senior stock-market strategist for Tucker Anthony. "You could very well see the consumer celebrate by buying that postponed car, TV or refrigerator. This will go a long way toward turning the recession into recovery." Stocks have accurately forecast seven of the eight recoveries since 1949, while the biggest bull market in history started...
...needed at the front on Day Five. Relying less on brute force than on operational elegance, it requires commanders to concentrate their efforts on attacking the right thing in the right place at the right time. The enemy's crucial "center of gravity" -- a term borrowed from Prussian strategist Karl von Clausewitz -- is that target whose destruction will have the greatest ripple effect on the enemy's overall military operations...
Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine general and former Vietnam War strategist, has appeared around-the-clock as a top military analyst for ABC News. In his spare time since the war started, he is director of the National Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government...