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...time being, Iraq's leaders will have to rely largely on coalition troops to carry out counterinsurgency raids and protect police stations and other facilities that are under constant threat of attack. But now, instead of running their own provocative raids, U.S. troops are supposed to draw back inside their bases and play a supporting role. They have been directed to invent partnership arrangements with local forces so that security operations will be conducted jointly by Iraqi and U.S. commanders...
...their boots for good that they could be lacing up in Iraq in a matter of months. In a sign of the military's urgent need for personnel as the protracted campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan exhaust U.S. active forces, the Army announced last week that it would draw the extra troops from a rarely used pool of reservists designed for times of national crisis, the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). The Pentagon's decision to order inactive soldiers back to duty is fueling a growing debate about expanding the Army and inspiring emotional comparisons to the draft...
...German best-seller lists for more than 30 weeks. The idea that this renegade could galvanize U.S. opinion and boost the Democratic ticket holds a certain appeal for Europeans. Bush is so unpopular in Europe, says French legislator Pierre Lellouche, that "the Democrats could nominate a horse" and draw more support. But the Constitution has no provision for equine candidates, and it's the American voter who will decide...
Despite the difficult draw, the Crimson more than held its own against the Dutch, improving upon its performance at the BearingPoint World Cup regatta last month in Lucerne, Switzerland...
...Defense Initiative, the Star Wars program. Many critics of Reagan's foreign policy have pointed out, however, that as the Soviet Union started to fray, there was a real chance it would end with a nuclear bang rather than a whimper. Had the U.S.S.R. not been lucky enough to draw Mikhail Gorbachev instead of, say, Yuri Andropov as its last leader, the odds are high the outcome would have been very bad. All any U.S. President could do with that nightmarish regime was restrain it from further expansion while praying that when it finally did collapse, it would somehow manage...