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...move away from the "balance of terror" concept that kept Cold War enemies from firing nuclear warheads against each other for fear of massive retaliation. Instead, he proposes a missile shield in concert with a dramatic reduction in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. But there?s nothing new or post-Cold War about this at all: President Ronald Reagan essentially proposed the same thing with his "Star Wars" scheme. And while President Bush's emphasis was on land- and sea-based missile defenses, the net effect would be the same - which, of course, makes sense of the dramatic cuts...
...after more than 200 years of moderately successful foreign policy, does our military need this kind of retooling? Oh, because in the post-Cold War jungle of local ethnic conflict, digital landscapes and e-everything, war is just a different beast...
...readers of this edition live in Europe, you can expect to see a tighter focus on things European. Effective this issue, we're increasing the number of editorial pages, extra space that will go largely to European news. But the definition of news is changing in this globalized, post-cold war world, when political divides are being replaced by concerns about prosperity, its pursuit and its consequences. So we'll be expanding our coverage of business and technology. We'll be focusing on the growing debates about the distribution of wealth and health, the efficacy of genetic engineering and technology...
...many ways, the AIDS-drugs issue was tailor-made for Castro, a strongman who harbors both an epic hostility to capitalism and a developed pharmaceutical industry. The Cuban leader once revered among Third World revolutionaries has become a rather lonely ideologue in the post-Cold War years, as the Marxists of yesteryear made their peace with globalizing capitalism faster than you could say International Monetary Fund. But the AIDS crisis has spawned a battle in which even the most resolutely capitalist governments of the poverty-stricken developing world see themselves ranged against the patents and profits of giant pharmaceutical corporations...
...accident that most Navy submarines are named after cities or states. This builds local pride across the country for Navy vessels, and the service considers civilian tours of its warship important to maintain public support. This has become increasingly important in the post-Cold War era as the Navy competes intensely for dollars with the Army and Air Force...