The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, December 23, 1995            TAG: 9512220025
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A10  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   21 lines

BY GOLLY!

If there was ever a doubt as to how we would respond to aggression against our troops in the Balkan troubles, it was answered by the headline ``Army to use nonlethal weapons in Bosnia'' (Dec. 9). By golly, that should make the warring factions stop and think!

When I was a lieutenant of Marines in the 1980s, our guidance was ``Peace through Strength.'' I think I've just seen the current administration's military of the '90s: ``Sensitive to the Needs of the Enemy.''

ALAN P. MANGLICMOT

Virginia Beach, Dec. 11, 1995 by CNB