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...White House's use of faulty intelligence to hype the threat posed by Iraq's weapons program and the failure to plan for a postwar insurgency. In the run-up to the war, she was often overwhelmed by the combined duo of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who ignored her attempts at control. In his recently published history of the National Security Council (NSC), David Rothkopf, a former Clinton Administration official, writes that Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage believed that under Rice's NSC, "the President was not being well prepared...
...Terror" passé? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has started to talk more about a "global struggle against violent extremists." Terrorism experts, who for years have requested more nuanced language, are pleased. "It's a recognition that the real challenge isn't just capturing and killing the bad guys but breaking the cycle of recruitment and regeneration," says the Rand Corporation's Bruce Hoffman. "Better late than never...
...they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young. They had three children and seven grandchildren. "I experienced so much pain, but I am happy now," Tsuboi says. "I can say that I am filled with happiness." - With reporting by Donald Macintyre/Seoul, Yuki Oda/Hiroshima and Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
Instead, Over There focuses, to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, on the narrow "soda straw" of the grunts' experience--a fog of war both physical and moral, with the only sure thing the desire to stay alive. The battle scenes may be the most visceral (literally) and gripping that series TV has ever done. As scary as the battle is the uncertainty. In one episode, the unit works at a checkpoint, unsure if they have killed good guys or bad guys even after they search the bullet-shattered cars. The show's power, of course, comes from knowing that these...
Most Harvard professors can boast a seemingly endless array of academic accolades, but Donald M. Berwick ’68, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), last week received an award shared by only a few Americans—an appointment as an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...