Word: troop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...familiar with," said retired General H. Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm fame, "when it became known in a unit that someone was openly homosexual, polarization occurred, violence sometimes followed, morale broke down, and unit effectiveness suffered." Schwarzkopf argued that the military had its hands full with deep defense cuts, troop reductions and base closures. He also offered a graphic description of how military leaders would respond to any order to integrate gays into the forces: "They will be just like many of the Iraqi troops who sat in the deserts of Kuwait forced to execute orders they didn't believe...
Only forty years ago, a president fired a five-star general because he did not obey executive orders in a reasonable amount of time. Yes, MacArthur was involved with actual troop movements, but years for closing bases and months for integrating gays are certainly unreasonable amounts of time. Clinton doesn't have to sack the Joint Chiefs, but he shouldn't have to put up with gridlock in a branch of government he controls...
...friends and influence people has fallen flat with the military. Since late January, when Clinton announced his interim policy for lifting the military's ban on homosexuals, matters have been difficult. Mid-level officers and enlisted personnel fume about the Clinton Administration's proposed diet of pay freezes and troop reductions. The top brass grumbles about a lack of respect, noting that no generals or admirals sit on the National Security Council and only two of 45 political positions at the Pentagon have been confirmed. "There's an enormous cultural gap between Clinton and this military," says James Doyle, editorial...
...extremely difficult to muster domestic support for lavishing money on a government dominated by neocommunists. If hard-boiled nationalists replace Yeltsin, an anti-Western Kremlin could reverse agreements on cutting nuclear arsenals, sell weapons to dangerous clients like Saddam Hussein, immobilize the U.N. with vetoes, slow down or reverse troop withdrawals from eastern Germany and the Baltics, and invade former Soviet republics in the name of rescuing Russian minorities...
...chance. Creation of a force cannot start until the Security Council passes an authorizing resolution, and no drafts are yet circulating. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has discussed with some U.N. members possible troop contributions to a force that might exceed 20,000. But he has had only perfunctory contacts with President Clinton's advisers, and no one seems to be discussing the vital question of rules of engagement -- that is, under what circumstances the peacekeepers could shoot. So the 25,000 U.S. and 12,000 other foreign troops remaining in Somalia may be stuck for weeks or months...