Results for “War Horse”

…ciary that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations. And corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, even wars we have no chance of winning. All polite appeals to the formal systems of power will not end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We must physically...

…ald Trump has none and acknowledges none." It may yet be even a more profound clash then that, the executive branch at war with itself—the Justice Department against the White House. Indeed, it is a war strategy, in the view of some legal observers. Such an indictment would be...

…e government had deliberately ‘sexed up’ the dossier on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in order to justify the Iraq War. A chain of events ensued, including the suicide of the dossier’s source, Dr David Kelly, severe damage to Tony Blair's reputation and the Hutton and Chilco...

… voices would be raised both in the Knesset and the Aivra against withdrawing. As with the Bar-Lev Line before the 1973 War, the longer the “security zone” was in place, the more difficult that politicians had found it to say it was a mistake. Yet it had now been there for nearly...

…more important point: we were all members of the “generation of 1967 and 1973.” We had been soldiers during the Six-Day War. In the years immediately after it, like almost all Israelis, we had allowed ourselves to believe that our victory had been so comprehensive, and so quick,...

… accommodation between the two, this conflict CAN NOT be negotiated. Only one can survive not because we have declared “war” but because our Islamic Enemy has. That is, perhaps, the lesson we will most need to fully learn, one way or another. We will eventually hit a Turnaround M...

…c condition, we did the best we could. Zelikow: what are the top priorities of admin. Defeat AQ and avoid a "pre mature war w Iran; avoid Iraqi civil war - Iraq is moving troops now to west; manage the hot situations in ME. Froman: "lead fom behind" is not admin policy. Leverage...

…. Still, for many weeks, the answer from the Airya was no. The man who had succeeded Rabin as chief-of-staff after the war, Chaim Bar-Lev, dismissed it as “a plan built on chicken legs.” In the end, what got us the green light was a further escalation, on both sides, in the War...

CHAPTER 29 The “War on Terror” After Snowden Because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of hand-wringing over the government's role in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been some policy and legal and other actions that make our ability coll...

…asion by striking targets in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, North Korea presumably plans to defend itself, should war erupt on the peninsula, by threatening U.S. regional allies and targets in the United States. North Korea's mission requires small, lightweight warheads, a...

…es| will get it.” The transfer of state secrets from Mr. Snowden to Russia did not occur in a vacuum. The intelligence war did not end with the termination of the Cold War; it shifted to cyberspace. Even if Russia could not match the NSA’s state-of-the-art sensors, computers and...

…pport for the left-wing Japanese peace groups that have long investigated and published evidence of the Imperial Army’s war atrocities in the 1930s and 1940s. Such Japanese research has been politically useful for China in buttressing its own efforts to chronicle the sufferings o...

…e South China Sea and it alone will decide the passage regime to be imposed therein. This is radical and could lead to war.Otherwise, China could claim most of what it wants by using existing international law and the Law of the Sea Treaty. It could claim the features and, for l...

of them. Admiral Luis Maria Mendia, one of the leaders in Argentina’s “Dirty war,” convinced victims to board a plane under the pretext of a freedom flight, and then once in flight, were thrown out of the plane, adding sheer terror to the brutality of their death. Accounts such a...

… has her extended family and spent every one of her one hundred years there. Esther Godin, as the then was, grew up in Warsaw. Born in 1913, she was the oldest of the six children of Samuel and Rachel Godin. Poland at the time was home to the largest Jewish community in the worl...