The commanders of the world's two largest communist armies have seen the future, and to their horror, it works. Generals in Moscow and Beijing are organizing conferences and ordering up studies, but their conclusions are already clear: neither the Soviet nor the Chinese armed forces can match the high-technology weapons and tactics the U.S. displayed in its swift demolition of Iraq.
It is not just that American M1A1 tanks made scrap metal out of Soviet T- 72s, which they did, or that Iraqi pilots of top-of-the-line MiG-29s were unwilling even to engage U.S. planes, which they were. Worse, from the Soviet...
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