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If U.S. war planners have their way, exchanges like that will soon become commonplace. With a new Iraqi government settling into office, Washington is in a rush to train an Iraqi army capable of taking over the fight against the insurgency. And it's still a fight. Though senior Pentagon...
Given the level of violence, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq--currently 138,000 in 17 combat brigades--won't come down in the foreseeable future. And the Bush Administration insists it's prepared to keep forces in Iraq until the country is pacified. "We don't have an...
While the ability to wage such high-tech combat will remain a dream, or nightmare, for years to come, it is very much a gleam in the Pentagon's eye. Working largely through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a special unit devoted to exotic weaponry, military planners are developing...
Now Long and other planners report to Mayor Xiao Yang, 55, a wiry engineer and former vice mayor of Peking who has gained a national reputation as a "city doctor." Says Xiao: "I hope to play that role here. Our population may be large, but unfortunately our economy is not...
In ideology the Downtown Plan is sensibly deferential to the existing warp and woof of the city. In ambition, however, it is reminiscent of the Olympian urban-renewal texts of a generation ago, when planners presumed to know how to recast cities from scratch. It puts the city on record...