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...reminder of the glorious past, was the Victory, the flagship of Lord Nelson when he sailed out through the same channel to win his great victory over the French and Spanish at Trafalgar in 1805. And, as always, the Britons gathered at Portsmouth Harbor last week to watch the naval departure were swept with deep feelings of national pride and a sense of foreboding about an uncertain future. The crowd was largely silent at first, but the cheers began as the aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes moved past. The spectators, some of whom had been weeping only moments before, shouted...
...recent booms in military money are more of a hindrance than a help in waging the so-called “War on Terror,” as it is the large conventional forces that receive the bulk of the increases. Tank battalions and naval fleets are practical when faced with a uniform-clad national army, but al Qaeda is a nebulous network with cells in 60 countries. In this new species of war, the central imperative is not combating terrorists, but locating them. Such a task requires augmented intelligence capabilities and special operations forces—not a half...
...With melted snow dripping into the conference hall, decorated in burlap sacking to evoke the inside of a bedouin tent, the setting could hardly have born less resemblence to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, scene of the U.S. sponsored Middle East peace conference last November. That, of course, was the point...
...rare politician who - perhaps because of his experience as a POW - wasn't going to compromise his principles or hold his tongue to please his party. He was also, at his core, still the rowdy, runty, red-tempered plebe who finished near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy despite an IQ of 133. McCain became a symbol in 2000 of courage and candor. Few took close looks at his policy positions. It was almost enough to get him the Republican nomination...
...tricks and that "all options are on the table to protect our assets." For a moment, the stage was set for confrontation. There was one problem: Pentagon officials noticed the recording was suspect and had to move quickly away from their initial claim that Iranian naval officers had issued the threat...