America’s Black Eisenhower,

Now, after the allied victory, the Soviets are grappling with what su- perpowerdom means when one’s economy is a disaster, one’s military hardware has been denigrated, and one’s diplomacy has proved inadequate.

SOVIET military men are clearly worried by their close look at NATO’s performance against the largely Soviet-armed and -trained Iraqi military. “The echo of missile thunder in the desert must put us on our guard,” Colonel-General R. Akchurin told the official news agency, TASS. Ironically, the allied victory may ultimately help reformers who are calling for a smaller, higher-tech, and more professional military.