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WASHINGTON -- President Clinton has said in the past that he won't let America's military readiness slip -- but it may be happening anyway. A key measure of Army combat preparedness is how many miles each tank is driven per year in maneuvers. According to a confidential report, Army tanks averaged only 588 miles last year, 75% of what's considered ideal...
...Allies would fight back hard. Their three long, thin lines of defense -- dubbed FEBA (Forward Edge of Battle Area) Alpha, Bravo and Charlie -- are a network of tank traps, fortifications and trenches that mark the front lines as they stood when the first Korean War ended in July 1953. Seoul, which is only 35 miles from the DMZ, has invested heavily in the lines, especially the Alpha line, which crosses the Munsan and Chorwan valleys -- where North Korea would probably push through. Since April, the U.S. has dispatched a battallion's worth of Patriot missiles to South Korea and replaced...
Commissioned as an ensign in May 1943, Rubinwas assigned to a Landing Craft Tank (LCT), whichcarried six Sherman medium tanks in a convoy boundfor Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands...
...pinned down on the beach, with a German division in front of us and only water behind us. We had 7 yds. of beachhead with no cover; the highest thing around was a shale rock. The only way to get off the beach was to blow up a big tank trap that was blocking our way. Finally one of our guys took the trap out with a bangalore torpedo ((a metal tube packed with high explosives)). They sent me to find our commander, Colonel George Taylor, and tell him we'd opened a breach. I stood up and tried...
Last month, after a Northern tank brigade attacked and defeated a force from the South in a town northwest of San'a, the country was plunged into war. As the fighting carried on in the rugged mountains that line the former border between North and South, it was impossible to confirm either side's claims to imminent victory. "There is not a military solution to the Yemen problem," said Robert Pelletreau, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, who was trapped temporarily in San'a after a failed mediation attempt...