2 FEBRUARY 1991, page 23

Letters Mass Cowardice

Sir: As one with a scanty knowledge of the United States and its citizens, based on no more than four visits and a number of personal friendships, I write to echo Vicki Woods's......

18th-century Rockets

Sir: In the matter of observing rocket warfare, John Simpson CA different kind of war', 26 January) had a distinguished predecessor almost exactly 200 years ago. In Fuller's......

That's Death

Sir: Recent profiles of Saddam Hussein suggest that his unpleasant behaviour was caused by abuse he suffered as a child. Might we not kill two birds with one stone by......

Eve Of Destruction

Sir: However one views the rights or wrongs of the Gulf war, it should be remembered that the United States and Soviet Union, together with many other nations, provided Saddam......

New Social Order

Sir: The author of your leading article (`Bombs beofore BR', 26 January), no doubt clad in a claret and consommé- stained suit, seems completely unaware that many local......

Waugh On War

Sir: What a remarkable armchair strategist is Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 19 January). Almost everything he has writ- ten in his article, 'Unlikely to be quite such a field......