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Envisioning a future of casualty-free pushbutton wars? Get Over it.
Robert McNamara had his whiz kids. Donald Rumsfeld has his whiz geezer--Andy Marshall.
Upon taking office, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld pledged to undertake a bold reorientation of our armed forces to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. And he turned over a key part of the job to Marshall, the almost octogenarian policy planner who has been one of the biggest boosters of the so-called Revolution in Military Affairs. Marshall and other reformers want the armed forces to take even greater advantage of America's technological prowess--specifically our mastery of the microchip--by developing weapons systems capable of hitting targets with pinpoint accuracy ...
- Armed Forces `unprepared' for attack in Gulf War
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London CHRISTOPHER BELLAMY June 15, 1994 700+ words
BRITAIN'S Armed Forces were unprepared to meet...East which led to the 1991 Gulf War, a report by the all...service just before the Gulf War. British forces also lacked...to hold an inquiry into Gulf War Syndrome, which has allegedly...
- GULF WAR SYNDROME SURVEY.
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) June 30, 1998 700+ words
...literature relating to so-called Gulf War syndrome. Armed Forces Minister John Reid said that...Government on illnesses suffered by Gulf War veterans. Dr Reid said...suffered by veterans of the 1991 Gulf War conflict. The veterans have...
- Soviet hawks fly again. (criticism of Americans from the Soviet military) (The...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 23, 1991 700+ words
THE Gulf war has revived a strain of anti-Americanism...quality if not quantity. Before the Gulf war the Soviet armed forces were already reeling from a series...a threat to Soviet security, the Gulf war represents another defeat for Soviet...
- Armed forces in gulf not fully prepared for chemical warfare.(Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Parker, Richard February 12, 1998 700+ words
...attack than troops got during the Gulf War. Troops can expect better gas...in this crisis, as in the 1991 Gulf War, the armed forces are not fully prepared: The military...the chillingly close call of the Gulf War, when military leaders knew Iraq...
- Gulf War vets examined for pesticide poisoning
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Ian Burrell December 12, 1996 700+ words
...medical experts yesterday admitted that 54 Gulf War veterans are being examined for possible pesticide...defence select committee which is examining Gulf War syndrome. Nicholas Soames, the armed forces minister, admitted on Tuesday that Parliament...
- Gulf war syndrome? `No - it was pesticides'
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Ian Burrell October 5, 1996 700+ words
...believe in the so-called Gulf war syndrome say it has caused...refuses to acknowledge that Gulf war syndrome exists. Nicholas Soames, the armed forces minister, said last year...recognition FEBRUARY 1991 - The Gulf war ends. JUNE 1993 - Gulf...
- GULF WAR HEALTH CONCERNS TO BE STUDIED, CLINTON TELLS VETERANS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) November 12, 1996 700+ words
...many who served in the Persian Gulf War and praised the war hero he...to the sacrifices of U.S. armed forces, Clinton reassured Gulf War veterans that his administration...these cases and to provide our Gulf War veterans with the medical care...
- Gulf War pesticides under investigation
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel October 5, 1996 700+ words
...now plaguing Persian Gulf War veterans, the Ministry of Defense said Friday. Armed Forces Minister Nicholas Soames...conditions that some Gulf War veterans have suffered...British veterans of the Gulf War have complained of symptoms...
