Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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March 15--Future Faculty Dean Watt visits Cambridge to get acquainted with the terrain. He takes particular care to visit the Harvard Forest and the Arnold Arboretum, and listens with great attention as Crimson Key tour guide tells him about last year's controversy over ivy on the Houses. He says little during the visit, but pronounces himself eager to "get in there and start shaking up all these dusty old profs...
...Reagan Administration has shown little interest in any serious attempts to fend off an arms race in space. The U.S. delegation to Geneva's Committee on Disarmament, for instance, is permitted merely to study the technical and legal terrain. At the United Nations the U.S. has ignored the Soviets' draft treaty to outlaw all space weapons. There has been no official U.S. response to Yuri Andropov's August declaration of a unilateral moratorium on Soviet ASAT launches...
...into the shallows off the white sandy beaches, carrying hundreds of U.S. Marines in tropical camouflage gear, Harrier jump jets streaked overhead. A six-ship task force was anchored two miles out to sea, while clattering Cobra helicopter gunships provided cover. After landing, the troops pressed forward through swampy terrain. In about two hours they had seized their first objective, an airport twelve miles inland...
...will be no decade-long war of attrition in a tropical jungle against a unified enemy with a long history of successful anticolonial warfare. That was the last war, though the politicians (not the generals this time) are busy preparing for it still. In Lebanon everything is different: the terrain, the players, the tactics, the goals and the intentions of American leaders. But we disdain mundane details like history, geography and strategy. Viet Nam is everywhere. Every exercise in what used to be called containment-55 advisers in El Salvador, for example-is now called "another Viet...
...cruise missile is a comparatively uncomplicated 18-foot long computer piloted low-flying airplane. It adjusts to the terrain, "hiding" behind hills and the curvature of the earth by using "Steulth" technologies which the Soviets do not have. With a range of almost 2000 miles, it may be launched from airplanes, trucks, ships and subs. Easily conceded and mobile, the cruise would be almost invulnerable to Soviet attack, thus maintaining deference no matter what the scenario. A flexible weapon, it is equally effective on hard (silo) or soft (city) targets and useful in either strategic or tactical war. Accurate...