Word: strike
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...large, structured attack with strategic intent against the U.S. could be prepared and exercised under the guise of unstructured 'hacker' activities." The U.S., it added, might not even know it is under attack. "There is no nationally coordinated capability to counter or even detect a structured threat." Such a strike could "cripple U.S. operational readiness and military effectiveness" by delaying troop deployments and misrouting cargo planes, trains and ships...
Senior Pentagon and intelligence officials have told TIME that senior White House aides have been considering a top-secret presidential directive spelling out what agencies of the government would defend against infowar or retaliate with a strategic attack by the U.S. (A Clinton adviser even fears an information-warfare strike before next year's presidential election; one of his jobs, he says half-jokingly, is to find a "Cabinet member to blame if something really bad happens.") Senior officers say that in the future, the President's black bag containing the instructions for launching a nuclear strike may also have...
Just days after the Croatian army broke the seige ofthe Bihac safe area, Serb forces appear ready to strike back. From Bihac, TIME's Edward Barnes reports that a massive combined force of Krajina and Bosnian Serbs is approaching the town from the south. Croat and Bosnian Muslim army officials expect a major battle for the area within the next few days...
...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...
...Democrats, who have seen this coming, are using the 30th anniversary of Medicare to launch their pre-emptive strike. "I got the message of the 1994 election," Clinton declared at a birthday rally, "and I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Again and again, the President poked at the soft spots in the G.O.P. numbers, charging that the $270 billion taken out of Medicare would be used to pay for the G.O.P.'s $245 billion in tax cuts "for people who don't need it." Gingrich replied that Clinton was trying to scare senior citizens...