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...battlefield. Henry Kissinger, a cold-eyed realist and practitioner of power politics, knew this well. During the four years that he negotiated America's exit from Vietnam, he regularly resisted those people -- ranging from Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the doves in the Senate -- who wanted to speed up troop withdrawals and, in Kissinger's view, undercut U.S. leverage at the Paris peace talks. And after the peace accord was signed in January 1973, he repeatedly advocated military pressure to force the communists to comply with the bargain...
...Pentagon's gargantuan overall budget, that hardly amounts to a dime's worth of difference. Neither candidate devotes much public attention to military issues; neither has been heard to utter the phrase "peace dividend" in campaign speeches. And with good reason. In this recession-blighted election year, cutting troop levels and slashing Pentagon budgets can mean higher unemployment. The formerly onerous burden of military spending now looks to presidential -- and congressional -- aspirants very much like a jobs-and-votes program. Clinton hews closely to the Administration line on defense for other reasons as well: to pre-empt Republican charges that...
...using the sayarot is to pinpoint Palestinian troublemakers and reduce contact and friction with the general population. Since the commandos went into large-scale action, the army has cut back routine patrols, maintained fewer outposts and limited the imposition of curfews in Palestinian towns and villages. Overall troop strength in the territories has been trimmed a third, from 10,000 soldiers to about...
...much did Moscow know about U.S. plans to survive a nuclear attack? A former KGB official says spies watched for signs that the U.S. was preparing a nuclear attack by monitoring late-night activity at the Pentagon and keeping track of troop movements. The KGB and GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency, also used agents to try to discover the location of the bunkers set aside for U.S. leaders. "We did find out some of the operation code names and hiding places," claims the official. Sometimes the U.S.'s own planning methods tipped off the Soviets. Says the official...
Many critics applauded Madonna for hiring poor gay Blacks, Latinos and Asians to work as dancers on her tour. hooks point out that these same critics usually ignored the way Madonna was portrayed as the cutely condescending mother/dictator of a troop of exotics and emotional cripples...