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...buildup, ordered last week to counter what the Pentagon called Noriega's "heavy-handed tactics," will raise U.S. troop strength along the 50-mile-long Panama Canal to 11,800 officers and men. Noriega commands the 15,000 member Defense Forces...
...faces stained brown and green with camouflage paint, parachuted onto a dry cow pasture in central Honduras. The 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers formed a defensive ^ perimeter, crouching in combat positions. But instead of an enemy force, they faced an army of photographers and cameramen -- a fitting confrontation for a troop deployment that was more media event than military action...
...land battle. ALBM is intended to supply computerized intelligence to the "electronic battlefield" that the military has been developing as part of its evolving command-and- control strategy. When completed, this system will enable commanders to explore war games and battle scenarios, test tactical hypotheses and plan weapons and troop deployment. But the information-processing requirements of a major-theater war would be enormous. Managing a battle is not a case of dealing with one source of data rapidly but, rather, simultaneously processing data about air threats, supply lines, weather and the positioning of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Whether...
Oppressive poverty, political repression, lack of medical care, and the excessive concentration of power and wealth in a few hands are conditions which have given rise to rebellion throughout the region. Yes, Republicans have deferred attention from these pressing problems by favoring military aid and quick troop interventions. Yet by limiting its actions to countering the administration, Congress also fails to solve the true problems. The Congress should develop programs which would attack the underlying economic and social ills in Central America--something the United States has not even tried to do since the early 1960s...
...building more weapons systems than are necessary to ensure the national defense. Troop levels could be trimmed, especially if the U.S. insists that its allies share more of the burden of defending the free world. Defense specialists in Congress and the Administration can choose from among several possible cuts: reduce the size of the aircraft-carrier fleet from 15 to twelve and cancel two planned carriers before construction begins (a saving of $3.5 billion in 1992); cancel the Stealth bomber ($7 billion); kill the C- 17 transport plane ($2.3 billion); freeze annual spending on the Strategic Defense Initiative...