And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

Britain’s chief scientist sparked outrage in the United States after he warned that climate change represented a greater global threat than international terrorism, according to newly-released ...

George H.W. Bush loved the CIA. It was “part of my heartbeat,” he once said. He was the only president who ever ran the agency, and the last president who truly believed in its Cold War code ...

But in the War Against Terrorism the new thinking is that the only defense is offense. President Bush is advocating a new strategic doctrine emphasizing preemptive strikes against our enemies.

In the same book Bush also suggests that he tried to volunteer for service in Vietnam "to relieve active duty pilots" fighting the war. But, of course, the entire purpose of his privileged (and ...

The late Gen. Elly Tumwine had a historical psychological link to Yoweri Museveni. In 1967, Museveni taught a young Tumwine at Burunga Primary School in Mbarara.

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But U.S. leadership on Darfur was a mixed blessing. In 2001-2002, the Bush administration had made ending the Sudanese civil war one of its top foreign policy priorities in Africa. Correctly or ...

George Bush thought of the Iraq War as a ‘mission from God’, according to a top US official who tried to persuade Tony Blair to give the president a ‘dose of reality’. Newly released UK ...

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