Results for “PLA Institute of Military Culture”

247 CHAPTER TEN Raider of the Inner Sanctum 1.’ They think there’s a smoking gun...”—Bamford. Wired. op. cit. 2.”System for stratifying its data...”—Michael McConnell interview, Rachael King, “Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden's Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen,” Wall Street Journal, F...

… The growing offensive against civil society is in many respects a tribute to the prominent role that NGOs have come to play in the political life of most coun- tries. An active civil society is often seen as a formida- ble threat to a repressive or illiberal status quo. Civil so...

Sidney Hillman Foundation Names Winners of 2019 Prizes for Journalism in Service of the Common Good Reuters, NBC News and MSNBC, ProPublica Receive Honors; Adam Serwer to receive Opinion & Analysis Prize NEW YORK -— The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday winners of the...

…peech to an audience of newly promoted one-star generals in 2010, a four-star general pulled me aside fora moment. He explained that I’d be speaking to a crowd of officers who had come of age pacing the murderous streets of these wars, watching soldiers under their command killed...

…form of another war*®. During this murderous 75 year run, in the reviving of European and then global fortunes, America played a decisive if reluctant role. As in that first period, she emerged richer, more central, and more modern. A third struggle, the Cold War, immediately fo...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians give the authorities wide discretion in applying them to regime opponents. Such measures are typically paired with a court system that uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex-...

…deology. That line of reasoning, however, is based on the assumption that the policy decisions of such regimes can be explained by rational choice economic theory. In other words, if they want to attract international capital and participate in the world economy, they are going t...

…ed to avoid the word “war’) was botched and misleading. Hillary had little warning before Sarkozy announced that French planes were in the skies over Libya. At her Paris press conference she made it seem, with her frequent references to “they” and “them”—with the U.S. providing “...

… small, semi-detached townhouses which, best of all, had a backyard. It was tiny by American standards, but was still a place for the girls to play. Once again, however, I wasn’t there when my daughter was born. I was rushing north as Nava went into labor. The birth itself went...

… conflict with Russia. There is no strong evidence that Russian speakers in Estonia are simply embracing the Russian explanation of things. Instead, they tend to reject both Russian and Estonian sources of information. This is in itself a victory of sorts for Russia, since the...

…capitalism you see in China and Russia. I believe it’s what Holy Father [Pope Francis] has seen for most of his life in places like Argentina, where you have this kind of crony capitalism of people that are involved with these military powers-that-be in the government, and it for...

…ever, that in a more reflective moment, Gates would have acknowledged that "never say never" is a wise rule of thumb in planning for military contingencies, especially in the region that makes up Central Command's area-of-responsibility. Few, for example, predicted the 1979 Sovie...

… woman in order to form a sexual union with God. During a doctor’s visit, a man reported that his pet poodle had been replaced by an impostor, masquerading as if he was the real deal. Judge Patrick Couwenberg stated under oath that he received the Purple Heart for military operat...

…s would cause a helpful wave of indignation.” In an interview, Bamford said, “What the Joint Chiefs indicated in their plan was, they would have people shot on American streets, bombs blown up, refugee boats sunk on the high seas—and all this would be blamed on the Cuban governm...

2011 -- CAIRO — Brazen attempts by Egypt’s interim military rulers to hold on to power long after elections have elicited a sharp reaction domestically and for the first time have prompted Washington to warn about the potential for new unrest.