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Make no mistake: we’re entering a new world of military planning. Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve just about every costly…
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Here’s the ad for this moment in Washington (as I imagine it): Militarized superpower adrift and anxious in alien world. Needs advice.…
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It…
On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!” Taking into account the comments of statesmen, scientists,…
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Sometimes words outlive their usefulness. Sometimes the gap between changing reality and the names we’ve given it grows so wide that they…
He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949. He…
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