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...German strategist Helmut von Moltke once observed, "No plan survives contact with the enemy." For the 101st Airborne Division that dictum struck with a vengeance. But, according to LTC Lehr this was a good thing. "In the past, the Army has had a tendency to try and fight according to plan, not according to what the enemy or situation dictated," he said. "This time we adopted our plans to what the enemy was doing." Moltke would have understood. His second dictum states, "War is a matter of expedients...
...political analyst by any means, even less of a strategist, but I feel that I should express my utter revulsion at the present situation. The last straw was the excellent article that appeared this past Friday in The Crimson, entitled “Harvard Stands to Profit From War” (News, April...
...fund company T. Rowe Price, expects a healthy annual growth rate of 3.5% in the second half of this year and 4% in 2004, assuming--as any bullish case must--that the war keeps going well and there is no major terror event. Byron Wien, chief U.S. market strategist at Morgan Stanley, says investors who wait for a stock pullback will be disappointed. "The economy has done remarkably well in the face of high oil prices, a cold winter and the geopolitical concerns," he says. "Take those away, and it should really improve." He predicts that the market will rise...
...should start to perk up now that companies around the world have used three lean years to shed fat and restructure. Foreign stocks were hit harder and are cheaper relative to earnings potential than stocks in the U.S. "The U.S. has to turn first," says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, because it remains the world's leading economy. "But then Europe and Asia will move further, faster," he predicts. His favorite regions are parts of Europe--notably Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands--Hong Kong and South Korea, and emerging markets Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Stocks...
...have had a change of heart. During his election campaign, Papadopoulos had the crucial backing of AKEL, Cyprus' powerful communist party, which is strongly in favor of reunification. "Papadopoulos had to soften up because ... AKEL is traditionally moderate and open with the Turkish Cypriot community," says one Cypriot political strategist in Nicosia. In his victory speech, Papadopoulos made a point of pledging to work with Turkish Cypriot "compatriots" to find a settlement. International mediators have been trying to find a solution to the Cyprus question since intercommunal fighting broke out on the island in 1963. The 1974 division occurred when...