Word: tankful
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There were even heavier and bloodier battles, including tank clashes on the Punjabi plain and in the deserts to the south, along the 1,400-mile border between India and the western wing of Pakistan, where the two armies have deployed about 250,000 men. Civilians were fleeing from the border areas, and residents of Karachi, Rawalpindi and Islamabad were in a virtual state of siege and panic over day and night harassment raids by buzzing Indian planes...
...Defense Department could hire its own computer experts or contract the problems out to private "think-tanks" like RAND. But for social science techniques the DOD needs what universities--Harvard and MIT in particular--have to offer: a first-rate community of behavioral scientist. The DOD's own such scientist don't know what they are doing, two of the Project's leading participants say; and the behavioral scientists of think-tank staffs number fewer than those at a single leading university. Cambridge offers an unusually large and diverse social science community...
...Tank. For all of Cushman's rugged virtues, there were many in the Marines and in the Pentagon-including, some think, Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland-who would have preferred someone else in the top Marine slot. The popular choice in the Pentagon for the job was Marine Chief of Staff Lieut. General John R. Chaisson, 55. Something of a Renaissance officer in the mold of Zumwalt, Harvard-educated Chaisson is a brilliant speaker and a tough-minded intellectual whose interests range far beyond the boundaries of military thought...
Amid the cutbacks in military spending as the war winds down and the intense intraservice rivalry for weapons and manpower, the Marines need an able spokesman in "the Tank." That is where the thrice-weekly meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are held to decide what operational requests will be presented to the President. Though the Marine commandant has a lesser influence in "the Tank," reflecting the size of the corps. Chaisson's supporters both in and out of the corps felt that he was the best man for that difficult role in a difficult time. Had Chaisson...
...road, but there are no soldiers in sight," he cabled. "In fact, not until we reach the small city is there any sign of fighting. We sit down in a semicircle in front of the briefer?Lieut. Colonel C.L. Proudfoot. In a blazing Bengal sun are three Pakistani tanks (U.S.-made Chaffees) and an odd assortment of captured materiel: American machine guns and Chinese ammunition. Proudfoot explains that Pakistani tanks have been probing the border near Boyra since Nov. 17. On the night of Nov. 20-21, he said, a number of tanks were heard approaching Boyra. The tanks reached...