... Clinton administration, when al-Qaida mounted one of its first attacks against the U.S., on the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam War combat veteran, was a Republican senator from Nebraska and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He now co-chairs the President's ...
... when Former Secretary of Defense William Perry, who now teaches at Stanford, and others proposed bring ROTC back into the academic fold. WILLIAM PERRY, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense: Having the mixture of the ROTC students with the rest of the students was a good thing, I thought. It ...
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top commander in Afghanistan, over critical comments he made in a Rolling Stone article, and would replace him with Gen. David Petraeus, currently head of U.S. Central Command. Petraeus will need Senate confirmation. In ...
... that as hard as one might try to be a completely private person, it’s out of the question at this moment, for those of us who live in the U.S., both in reality and in our consciousness. So no, I don’t go about actually researching unless I ...
... the U.S. Army and prominent advocate of the surge in Iraq during the Bush administration, and retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich fought in the Vietnam War. He's now a professor of international relations at Boston University. His latest book is "The Limits of Power: The End of American ...
... It's how we view the world.I was taught Americans can look at the world and ask either: what do other countries think of us ... or we can look at ourselves and ask: what would our forefathers make of us and what will our children say of us? That ...
The V-22 Osprey, a new tilt-rotor aircraft, is expected to be deployed to Iraq in several months, but critics say it has operational and design problems. Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the controversy surrounding the new aircraft.
Journalists, international policy experts and a former Bush administration official talk about the spread of democracy around the world and in particular President Bush's plans to promote democracy.
Historian Robert Dallek, author of "Partners in Power: Nixon and Kissinger," discusses his work and comparisons between the Iraq and Vietnam wars.
In his response to President Bush's State of the Union address, Sen. James Webb, D-Va., outlines his party's response, stressing the need to help the middle class through fairer tax policies and criticizing the president's handling of the war in Iraq. The following is the full text of his remarks.
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