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...Senate Bill 1070, “The Maverick” launched a television advertisement shamelessly catering to militarists. In the video, McCain, accompanied by a local sheriff, argues that if we swell the ranks of the U.S. Border Patrol with 3,000 new agents, deploy the National Guard, and complete the 700 miles of “danged fence” between the U.S. and Mexico, trafficking, trespassing, and murder in Arizona will inevitably disappear. The man-who-would-have-been-president assures us: “It’ll work this time...
...assault - against a nest of "Maliban" insurgents - is a simulation in Wales, the wounds faked. But Greenwood's urgency is all too real. Within a year of completing their training this month, some 60% of these officer cadets from Britain's élite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst will deploy to Afghanistan. There, says Greenwood, "the pace of operations is so fast and there's constant enemy contact. We have to make sure they're ready...
...destroyed by the Israeli air force before launching. Indeed, Israeli intelligence officials contacted by TIME say that, so far, they have evidence only of Syria's training Hizballah operatives on the use of Scuds, rather than actual deliveries. Nevertheless, in the eyes of Israel, Syria's clear preparation to deploy Scuds in Lebanon represents a major escalation, and a sign of Syria's belligerent intensions. (See pictures of the mysterious facility in Syria that was destroyed by a 2007 air strike...
...leadership trying to thread the passage between these extremes. Hu, for instance, has pivoted the nation's foreign policy away from older, slower-moving ideas like "Bide our time, get something done" and toward what are called the four strengths. China, Hu says, must deploy political influence, economic competitiveness, an attractive image and moral force in diplomacy. In so many words, Hu's strategy suggests, China must use what strength it can to make sure it isn't being done to again. It wouldn't let itself be done to at the climate-change summit in Copenhagen...
...pages long and filled with arcane deterrence language, but there's arguably no more important document in the world right now than the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that President Obama released on Tuesday. After all, the text spells out how many nuclear weapons the U.S. will continue to deploy around the world and the conditions under which it would be prepared to use those weapons - no small thing considering that its arsenal is big enough to threaten the survival of the species. Here are five ways in which Obama has shifted - or not shifted - U.S. nuclear policy from the George...