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...American M1 Abrams tanks maneuver through war games on the West German plain, NATO strategists worry about how to protect them from increasingly powerful Soviet antitank missiles. Last week the Army announced the development of an armor that will give the Abrams far better combat survivability. "This isn't a 10% upgrade in protection, this is a 100% upgrade," said Phillip Karber, a vice president of the weapons-testing BDM Corp. and an expert on tanks. The new armor, containing depleted uranium encased in steel, will not reduce the tank's top speed of 42 m.p.h. The Pentagon says that...
Since at least World War II, Soviet doctrine has placed extraordinary emphasis on offense, specifically on the use of massive tank and artillery formations as well as swift-moving mechanized infantry units. The theory was born partly out of the determination never again to have to fight a war on home soil. While a switch to a defensive strategy could simply signify a shift of resources, with more being devoted to protection against attack, it might also mean that Moscow is determined to reduce overall military expenditures, perhaps as part of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's drive to speed...
Scott jumps on Brian, tackles him, pushes his head into a rubber pole and sits on him. Clifton throws Laura at Shanique. Alia and Victoria try to smoosh elastic bracelets into the fish tank; Taneeya climbs up the indoor sliding board and smashes the basement window with a wooden hammer; Paul, not yet , walking, tries to lift himself up against a shelf, and it topples backwards; Laura and Sahar startle and cry; Clifton and Adam take off all their clothes and run around the snack tables in a circle whooping...
Then, like a hawk spotting a squirrel, Anderson banks sharply left and dives. Crammed into a cockpit no bigger than half a phone booth, he has the sensation of "riding on the tip of a pencil" when he wrenches the F-16 sideways, almost upside down. The tank appears below him through his canopy ceiling. For a microsecond the world is turned on its back. Anderson is pulling the stick toward him to "lift" the plane horizontally and down. Simultaneously, he eyes a cockpit screen called a heads-up display. The tank, seen distantly through the screen as if through...
...would relish the chance to make his critics eat their words once again. "I suspect that George Bush might surprise people by being bolder than expected," says Mitchell Daniels, a former head of the White House political- liaison office and current chief of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank. "He might break out of the mold...