Word: trainor
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...only established late-night analysis program (Nightline) and the deepest bench of star correspondents. During the war, that army of talent simply outgunned its rivals. The network boasted the most coolly authoritative anchor (Peter Jennings), the sharpest interviewer (Ted Koppel) and the best military analysts (Tony Cordesman, General Bernard Trainor). For lucid wrap- ups of the day's events, ABC was the place to turn -- and judging from its wide lead in evening-news ratings during the most heavily watched weeks, the place most people did turn. When ABC ran a late-night rebroadcast of General Norman Schwarzkopf's victory...
Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine general and former Vietnam War strategist, has appeared around-the-clock as a top military analyst for ABC News. In his spare time since the war started, he is director of the National Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government...
Reflecting on his experience in the military, Trainor says he is able to compare the current Middle East crisis to those that the U.S. has faced before. As a scholar now, Trainor can take the time to think about long-range issues--problems that often escape current military officials...
...Trainor and other policy analysts, notibly Walburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, say that policy makers' inattention to military history and scholarship has led them astray. For instance, Galbraith and Trainor both say the Administration is relying too heavily on the use of air power against the enemy--a tactic that proved largely ineffective during World War II and Vietnam...
...Historical evidence has proven that the use of air power does not necessarily win the war," says Trainor. "In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, it had little impact...