Masters of Illusion American Leadership in the Media Age Phần 7 pptx

... 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 ... discouraged China and all other nations from increasing the size or quality of their nuclear arsenals, and from nuclear tests of any kind. The purpose of th...

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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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... 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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... [taken in April, 2003], found that 75 percent said they trusted the military ‘to do the right thing’ either ‘all of the time’ or ‘most of the time ’Incontrast, in 1 975 , 20 per- cent of people ages ... important being the increasing reach of American power and military bases into the former republics of the Soviet Union in central Asia. China The Chinese pl...

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... double those in China, reflecting the gains reaped during the first phase of the industrial revolution. Thereafter, the disparity accelerated, peaking in 1950 at more than 10 to 1. Living standards ... catchup. Real living standards in Europe have doubled since 1 970 , but are less than two-thirds of the U.S. level and are falling further behind. 15 Instead of converging,...

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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 1984. That bombing caused the American superpower to ... situation of the country and the frightening future in the view of the enormous amount of debts and interest owed by the government; this is at...

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... consensus in the first instance, risking the kind of obstructionism we encountered with Iraq, but can operate independently in the latter case. The advantage of co-coordination is that we can garner the ... persuaded as to either view, the cautious electorate of the nation’s midsection (the old Midwest) – which now holds the balance of political power in the co...

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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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... 232 1800 7 22 246 275 1890 43 57 432 532 1914 94 70 525 689 1922 84 71 589 75 2 1931 175 89 76 0 1,033 19 47 630 143 1,181 1, 970 1960 1,911 85 1,090 3,111 19 67 2, 374 102 1,204 3 ,71 6 1 975 2,959 116 1,4 47 ... Press, 2004. 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, Ju...

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