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... names were assigned mainly to preserve security. The code names were classified, unlike the nicknames of modern operations. In a 1995 article in Parameters, a U.S. Army War College academic journal, Gregory C. Sieminski wrote that the Pentagon's Vietnam-era guidelines for naming military operations cautioned against counterproductive ...
... While the U.S. is not a claimant itself, it says it has a national interest in sustaining open navigation and trade through those waters. U.S.-China relations have also been strained by U.S. accusations of cyber espionage, and Russel said the U.S. would raise its concerns ...
... Federal Reserve in August 1979. At the time, many thought the seemingly inexorable increase in inflation could not be reversed. There was undeserved skepticism the U.S. would ever again see home mortgage rates in the single digits, for example. Volcker didn’t believe this. He made a dramatic break ...
... and has Ukrainian roots himself, says that the east/west divide in Ukraine has been overstated. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MOTYL: What people do here in the U.S. and especially the media, frankly, is they-- they make that fundamental mistake of comparing the two extremes and then projecting those characteristics on ...
... how the Chinese are reacting to this continually unfolding story, we are joined now from San Francisco by Orville Schell, he heads the center on U.S. - China relations at the Asia Society. So Orville, how is this story playing out in China? ORVILLE SCHELL: Well I think since Chinese ...
... re not the same color as me, you're still a person and I'm still a person." As 2050 approaches, one central component of U.S. race relations will change: Non-Hispanic whites will no longer make up the majority of the population, according to Census Bureau projections. Love ...
... grilling comparable to that for a Saudi citizen because he comes from a predominantly Muslim nation. Whatever is being thought unofficially, on the government level, relations between the United States and Southeast Asian nations are as smooth as they have been since the Vietnam War. President Obama's pivot to ...
Pope Benedict XVI at his last meeting with cardinals at the Vatican on Feb. 28. Photo via Osservatore Romano/Reuters. By Robert McMahon, editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The February 2013 resignation of Pope Benedict XVI set in motion a succession process for the Roman Catholic Church that dates to the Middle Ages....
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2009. Photo by Army Spc. Walter Reeves. By Jonathan Masters, Online Editor/Writer for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction Most projections indicate that the United States is on an unsustainable fiscal path under the current federal tax and entitlement regimes. Absent fundamental reforms, many experts suggest that the nation's rising...
The Remaking of Obama Foreign Policy Team: Sen. John Kerry Up for Sec. of State
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