Word: navalism
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When Harvard College LGBT Political Coalition administrative chair Clayton W. Brooks III ’10 was 16, he said he wanted to show support for his country by serving in the U.S. Naval Academy. But he said he would not enlist as anything other than a gay man, and so a military policy barring openly homosexual or bisexual recruits kept him away. “I wouldn’t be able to be completely honest about such an important part of who I am,” he said. “I’m prevented from...
...includes the E.U., India and Japan. India's transformation is in many ways the most extraordinary, turning an underdeveloped former ally of Moscow into an emerging power firmly linked to the democratic fold. India's chief strategic concern is China, which has close ties to Pakistan and an expanding naval presence in the Indian Ocean. In response, India hosted a massive naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal in 2007, along with the U.S., Japan, Australia and Singapore. China, needless to say, was not pleased, and made formal protests to all the participants. For those tempted to point...
...since the end of the War of the Pacific, which culminated 125 years ago with the Treaty of Ancón. In the country’s capital, constitutions have been passed and repealed, many regimes have risen and fallen; and yet, defying all rationality, the Bolivian Naval Force lives on. Arguably the poorest country of Latin America, and torn apart by racial tensions and political instability, Bolivia still maintains a force of over 5,000 sailors and 173 vessels, whose most important activity is the commemoration of ‘Sea Day’ at the centric Abaroa square...
...John McCain's left temple. He didn't pay it much mind during the heat of the 2000 Republican primary campaign. But after losing the nomination to George W. Bush, the Arizona Senator found himself with time to spare. So as Bush celebrated victory, McCain headed to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to have the spot checked...
...much. The military regime that runs Burma initially signaled it would accept outside relief, but has imposed so many conditions on those who would actually deliver it that barely a trickle has made it through. Aid workers have been held at airports. U.N. food shipments have been seized. U.S. naval ships packed with food and medicine idle in the Gulf of Thailand, waiting for an all-clear that may never come...