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America should take this opportunity to combat its image of condescension and begin weaning Asia off excessive reliance on foreign security forces. By purposefully taking a backseat, America can allow and encourage relations between Asian powers to evolve from a delicate détente into a robust and sturdy peace...
...Burgeoning prosperity in Japan and South Korea could enhance their neighbor’s weak economy, encouraging interdependence and creating greater incentives for regional peace. Moreover, the North’s promising recent market-based reforms would continue to pay off, potentially creating openness to further reforms that would combat the nation’s destitute poverty...
...that there would be changes, but I may not have been prepared for the speed, number and breadth of them. The Commanding General was always telling me to keep my forces postured for any change that might occur." Hodges says his driving goal had been to always have some combat power not fully committed, kept available for anything the Commanding General asked. "It was my duty to give him flexibility," he says...
...soldiers of 1st Brigade, the fact that things didn't go according to plan did not mean that they were unprepared. As one soldier said, "We trained for urban combat, for a possible street fight in Baghdad. That same training works just as well in An Najaf." It also worked fine in Karbala and Hilla, two other cities where the 101st had to squelch strong paramilitary resistance, which had not been in the original plan...
...Adams single-handedly charged forward to kill nine Germans, eliminate three machine guns and reopen a severed supply line to an isolated American battalion--for which he won the Medal of Honor. Later, as a benefits counselor for the Veterans Administration, he never mentioned that he had been in combat...