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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...
...getting a bargain guaranteed. Prices have edged up as yesteryear's bare-bones outlet stores full of seconds and irregulars have given way to today's fancy discount malls full of first-quality goods. "You need a good eye or you can still get ripped off," observes Mark Trainor, an Austin computer salesman browsing for clothes at San Marcos Factory Shops, one of two outlet malls off the interstate highway between San Antonio and Austin. "There are good buys at the discount malls but not great buys," warns consumer advocate Mona Doyle at the Consumer Network, based in Philadelphia...
Iraqi antiaircraft defenses are formidable: they include hundreds of Soviet- built surface-to-air missiles and perhaps 4,000 modern antiaircraft guns. "A hundred or more lost U.S. aircraft would be a fair estimate" for this phase of the campaign, says retired Marine General Bernard Trainor. Other predictions range...