Word: battlefield
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...talking about the financial situation, we have taken loans from some of our Arab brothers [about $20 billion was provided by gulf states for the Iraqi war effort]. Bankruptcy is not a possibility. If we are required to stop any of our development projects to meet battlefield requirements, we shall...
...authority, each questioning of his wisdom and experience as a battle to be waged and won. A general as well as diplomat, he yearned to snap out crisp orders and enjoy the quick responses. He tended to look at the world as an army commander would look at a battlefield, measuring supply lines, possible alliances and the adversary's ability to inflict or withstand judgment...
...crisis deepened, Washington labored last week to satisfy its recalcitrant Israeli ally while seeking to salvage its ties with Arab moderates. The Soviets watched from the sidelines, denouncing Israel and the U.S., as their own Middle East clients, the P.L.O. and the Syrians, took a humiliating drubbing on the battlefield. Although Moscow warned that its national interests were threatened by Israel's invasion, U.S. officials privately noted with relief the mildness of the Soviet reaction...
...fortunes changed in the Middle East, the Syrians were losing both equipment and face. Humiliated on the battlefield by the Israelis, they were criticized by every Arab state for their failure to fight wholeheartedly for the Palestinians and their willingness to make a separate ceasefire. The situation in Syria has been complicated by the arrival in Damascus last week of some 2,000 Iranian volunteers, wearing green headbands and holding aloft pictures of Ayatullah Khomeini. Their mission: to help Syria wage war on Israel?despite the arms aid that Israel provided the Khomeini regime in its war against Iraq. There...
...achieved many of its military objectives. The PL.O.'s military capacity had been reduced, the Bekaa Valley missiles were destroyed, and Syria had been shown to have a weak army and few Arab friends willing to defend it. With little more for Israel to gain on the battlefield, it was clearly to its advantage to stop fighting and begin the diplomatic struggle to achieve its broader political objectives in Lebanon...