Masters of Illusion American Leadership in the Media Age Phần 4 pot

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... argued that the beginning of the Islamists’ use of terror bombing as a tactic against the West was the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 19 84. That bombing caused the American superpower to ... anti-Chinese alliances, and engaging in brinksmanship. The struggle for shrinking petroleum supplies P1: FCW 052185 744 9c12 Printer: cupusbw CUNY475B/Rosefie...

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... 201, 3 94 Zimmerman, Warren, 363 P1: FCW 052185 744 4ind Printer: cupusbw CUNY475B/Rosefielde 0 521 85 744 9 November 6, 2006 9:55 536 Index Russia (cont.) as emerging superpower, 2 04, 240 44 declining ... Press, 20 04. Marshall, George W. The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific: Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, July 1, 1 943 to J...

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... thinking including a childish faith in the good intentions of others and in the world becoming more and more like Amer- ica. In this book, we try to slice through this fog of illusion by using ... constraints to win the Civil War, including suspending the writ of habeus corpus during much of the war. Harry Truman seized the nation’s steel industry during the Kore...

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... relations. Forexample, the sudden change in the Palestinian situation in the winter of 2005 was due to a change in the strategic setting in the Middle East as a result of the removal of Saddam Hussein from the leadership ... of diplomacy. The White House must always weigh the value of the truth against its cost, said a high of cial of the Clinton a...

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... reality. P1: FCW 052185 744 9c05 Printer: cupusbw CUNY475B/Rosefielde 0 521 85 744 9 November 3, 2006 12:5 The Sources of Our Illusions 93 in the case of the underestimates in the Cold War of Soviet military ... important being the increasing reach of American power and military bases into the former republics of the Soviet Union in central Asia. China The Chi...

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... However, the sinking of a Russian nuclear submarine in the Arctic a few years ago is illustrative. The Kursk went down with the loss of its entire crew. On the surface, the sinking highlighted the internal ... state. In fact, the CIA’s anal- ysis to the contrary not withstanding – the Soviets have since the 1930s never led the United States in the rate of...

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... in dealing with the changing nuclear arms balance – that was occurring in the summer of 2001 in the press, in the halls of Congress and in the recesses of the defense agencies of Washington was ... itself in the ensuring confusion about the real aims of our NMD policy. P1: FCW 052185 744 4c15 Printer: cupusbw CUNY475B/Rosefielde 0 521 85 744 9 November 6,...

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... uthdidn’tundermine thesupport ofthe American peoplefor thepresident or the administration. It lessened support when the president was suspected of misleading us about the causes of the war; it forced the ... coalitions of the willing. The United States is right to break free of European entanglements which are the real remaining chains of twentieth century conflicts...

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