Word: navalism
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...worked in the Pentagon my last year, and it’s interesting to go back into my little office in naval communications, see the chairman of the joint chiefs, and ask them questions. My heart is with the people not at the top, my heart is with the people who are stuck in Iraq, and I feel that I owe them the best effort I can make as a reporter to explain what’s going...
...same time, it's highly unlikely that the U.S. will launch a tough unilateral action such as a U.S. naval blockade of North Korea since that would only create more divisions between the U.S. and its partners. "If the U.S. started doing anything that looked like it ran the risk of military confrontation the current government of South Korea would drop-kick us out of the country," Pike points...
...Gary Samore, a Clinton Administration NSC proliferation expert who is now director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, contends that subjecting the North Koreans to financial stress and a naval blockade would only make matters worse. The North could retaliate, he says, by "stirring up trouble in the Sea of Japan or sending patrols into the DMZ... If things really got out of hand, you'd have increased military alerts and clashes on the Korean peninsula that would cause jitters in Seoul. And there's always a danger that these things will get pretty hairy." To China, Japan...
...undergraduates may be training to save lives at sea, but this week they delivered one on land. On the way to a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) session, Domenico A. Pellegrini ’09 and Jack D. Reed ’08 found and facilitated a woman giving birth in a van parked near 16 Garden Street early Tuesday morning. The students said they remained with the mother, who was alone, and newborn child until rescue crews arrived. Paramedics transported the woman and baby to the Cambridge City Hospital shortly before 6 a.m., according to Cambridge Fire Department...
...Obviously, translating this simple theory into practice is extremely complicated. Cultural legacies are the first problem. Conquered by two naval superpowers with Papal mandates, Latin America was plundered for precious metals as its indigenous populations died from disease and war. Spaniards and Portuguese alike were highly autocratic, installing viceroys without even the façade of local representation...