U.S. military planners are drafting several options, from limited air strikes to participation in a significant NATO ground force.

Still, there usually will be some liaison personnel that can meet with the regional U.S. planners.

Once the forms of capitalist democracy are in place, they remain very stable, whatever suffering ensues-a fact that has long been understood by U.S. planners.

U.S. planners also hoped that if Americans knew how wildfires would harm the war effort, they would better cooperate with the Forest Service to eliminate any kind of fire.

The 25,000-man ARVN force, which U.S. planners had considered half the necessary size, took admitted 25% casualties, which some estimates put as high as 50%.

U.S. planners want to weaken Iraq's forces with a relentless air campaign and, said a Pentagon briefer, "When they come out, they're easier targets."

The Russians could be relied on to say no to disclosing secrets, which relieved U.S. planners from having to work out more fundamental justifications for their positions.

U.S. planners watched with great concern the activities of German and other European agents in the various Mexican revolutionary camps.

In the end, the expanding world war and the links of its European players with revolutionary factions made it impossible for U.S. planners to pick a Mexican president.

Few U.S. planners acknowledged that Mexico's raw-materials deliveries fueled 40 percent of the U.S. war industry.