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In an op-ed, former WP military reporter George C. Wilson wonders why, if the military now expects most of its missions to be related to peace-keeping and counter-terrorism, President Clinton and Secretary of Defense William Cohen continue to allow the Army to spend millions on tanks, the Navy to keep buying $2 billion submarines, the Air Force to keep buying stealthy $160 million fighters, and the Marines to buy $40-$60 million vertical take-off-and-landing troop carriers instead of much cheaper helicopters.
A piece deep inside the WP brings news that a Russian missile specialist has warned that the nuclear ICBMs aboard Russia's older submarines are wearing out so badly that their continued deployment threatens "hundreds of Chernobyls."
Such a situation might be a bilingual education class, about which stereotypes can abound, or life aboard a nuclear-weapon-equipped submarine, a situation few readers will ever experience themselves but may need to get a feel for in order to understand staff selection, training, and management on modern submarines.
German submarines aggravated the supply problem and threatened ships stopping in the islands to refuel for the remainder of the Atlantic crossing.
The ships were commandeered to carry troops or become floating hospitals, and the waters around the islands were infested with German submarines.