Word: buildups
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...formidable armadas. More worrisome, Germany, under the prodding of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was rapidly building a war fleet to protect its commercial interests and colonial empire. The naval rivalry between Britain and Germany led to an arms race that in its consequence was deadlier than the postwar nuclear buildup of the U.S. and Soviet Union. For as Massie persuasively argues, that oceanic competition was a key factor in plunging Europe into the bloody morass still known as the Great...
First, Reagan certainly never advertised his strategy as one of capitalizing on growing Soviet weakness by engaging the U.S.S.R. in an arms race in which it couldn't hope to compete for long. Quite the opposite: per those CIA estimates, the arms buildup of the 1980s was presented as a question of desperately trying to keep up with the Joneskis. So, at the very least, Reagan misled the American people into a highly aggressive policy by presenting it as defensive...
...strange that Kerrey forgets that "evil empire" was the keynote for the arms buildup in the Reagan years--a buildup which doubled the defense budget in five years and which, incidentally, Kerrey believes was a mistake. Kerrey's antipolitician rhetoric may be charming, but he can seem out of touch...
...question of how to institutionalize their alliances with the U.S., however, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia hold different views -- neither of which coincides with Washington's. Kuwait desperately wants the U.S. to leave behind a permanent force. That is unacceptable to the Bush Administration, which repeatedly pledged during the gulf buildup that the deployment would be temporary. The Saudis are concerned about appearing to be American lackeys and want their military ties with the U.S. to be invisible. Senior Saudi officials have even expressed misgivings at a Washington proposal to leave U.S. tanks and other equipment behind in Saudi Arabia...
Power companies get to play the heavy in more than their share of environmental dramas. If they're not damming scenic rivers or generating nuclear waste, they're burning fossil fuels, contributing to acid rain, urban smog and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In that regard, American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat...