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Boosters insist that much of the U.S. sub fleet's new post-cold war mission isn't about blowing things up. It is about protecting American power around the world without firing a shot, by visiting foreign ports along with other warships, implicitly flexing martial muscle. "The United States," says the Navy's official sub statement, "maintains a capabilities-based, multimission submarine force that is sized to satisfy peacetime requirements and is not sized to counter any country's threat...
What does it cost to stop a war? In the post-cold war era, the answer, it seems, is always the same: American troops...
...case that this was nothing new. They say Hillary has always been a bit dense about herself and those close to her in a way typical of a certain kind of overachiever: a woman who can talk about school vouchers, Medicare Part B and the Third Way of post-cold war politics but who didn't see the psychological implications of taking her family along on her honeymoon; who thought it would be a good idea to toughen up six-year-old Chelsea at the dinner table by telling her all the terrible things being said about her father...
...only military activity that any of us recall was the 1991 Persian Gulf War, which was portrayed more as a Defense Department special effects show than a protracted military conflict. Our generation seems blessed by the post-Cold War era where the United States acts as a global superpower unchallenged by adversaries...
...time in this century that American forces went to war fully equipped and fully trained. The results, quick victory with miraculously few allied casualties, speak for themselves. Now that the U.S. military has finally got it right, let's not be too quick to tamper with success. Though some post-cold war cutbacks are inevitable and necessary, history shows that in the end it is always less costly to our sons and daughters in uniform when we can meet any foe with overwhelming superiority from the very outset. JERRY KOCH Studio City, Calif...