Word: notionalism
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...trying to make a point--that the U.S.'s post--cold war Army could do more with less and do it better and faster. That proved right as far as the invasion went, but occupying the country was a different matter entirely. "The notion that with [about] 130,000 troops, we have sufficient numbers to provide security is patently wrong," says Ivo Daalder, who was on the National Security Council staff under Clinton and is now at the Brookings Institution. "We need at least twice as many to make sure that the streets in Baghdad are safe enough for people...
...message. A year later, junior officers are no longer holding their tongues. "He wants to wage a war consistent with this fantasy of what a war is rather than what it is in reality," an Army officer at the Pentagon says privately of Rumsfeld. "It's this bulls___ notion that you can have an efficient military instead of an effective...
...loss of internal and external allies now forces U.S. commanders to rethink their tactics and timetables. The notion that U.S. soldiers would gradually pull back off the streets of the cities to a local base and then to a few main garrisons while local Iraqi forces stepped in to smooth the path toward a peaceful and democratic Iraq looks a little quaint now. And as long as U.S. troops are spread out across the country to douse local flare-ups, the supply lines will be long and the convoys vulnerable to roadside bombs and ambushes. The only way to protect...
...designers gave a nod to pimp fashion, an archetype of blaxploitation, in a sequence with bare-chested men reveling in the adulation of mini-skirted vixens. The segment’s tone was slightly marred by the off-putting notion that a production conscientiously pushing for racial diversity did little to challenge the film industry’s manipulative portrayal of African-Americans in the 1960s...
...namely ECHO, Undergraduate Health Services, and the Bureau of Study Council—Woods complains that male eating issues are “really not taken seriously.” He says that “a misconception is that eating disorders affect only women.” This notion compounds the obstacles men face to seek help for their eating issues. “There is an additional layer of feeling that as a man he shouldn’t be suffering,” says Olivardia...