Word: buildups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have singularly failed to win the support of the Bush Administration. "China," says Huang Jing of the Brookings Institution in Washington, "is now basically on the same page as the U.S. when it comes to Taiwan. Neither wants independence for Taiwan. Both want peace and stability." China's military buildup is best seen as a corollary of changes in Chinese society. Where Chinese military doctrine was once based on human-wave attacks, it now stresses the killing power of technology. There's nothing new, or particularly frightening, about such a transformation; it's what nations do all the time...
...Defense Intelligence Agency under Reagan routinely inflated Soviet threat assessments to bolster the Pentagon's case for a military buildup. But a debate had been long running within the CIA's Office of Soviet Analysis (SOVA) over whether the Russian military was ahead of the U.S. Many CIA analysts were convinced Moscow was actually lagging behind. Melvin Goodman, a former division chief in SOVA, testified at Gates's hearing that "Casey seized on every opportunity to exaggerate the Soviet threat... Gates's role in this activity was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence on all of these...
Foreign diplomats warn that the arms buildup may be a prelude to a wider war. Despite being sidelined by the Islamists, the transitional government still enjoys the full-throated backing of the international community and is being armed to the teeth by neighboring Ethiopia--a necessary violation of the country's arms embargo if the transitional government is to survive, but hardly endearing to most Somalis, for whom Ethiopia is a blood enemy. Meanwhile, Ethiopia's main rival in the region, Eritrea, has funneled arms and forces to the ICU. Peace talks between the Islamists and the transitional government have...
...meat of Langguth’s book is the buildup that culminated in the War of 1812. Regarding the escalating tensions between America and Britain—manifested in the tense naval skirmish between the Chesapeake and Leopard in 1807—Jefferson is quoted as saying, “never since the battle of Lexington have I seen the country in such a state of exasperation...
...with names like "Galaxy" that shoot hundreds of colorful balls into the sky. Store fronts are hung with banners for "Cock Brand" fireworks promising "sparklers, crackers, rockets and fancy fireworks." On each banner a proud rooster stands amidst an orange and red fireburst. The trade is brisk in the buildup to Diwali, with thousands of stores across India selling hundreds of tons of firecrackers...