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...diplomatic and strategic leadership from the U.S. has not materialized. We can no longer afford to waffle on such issues as the expansion of NATO and our military commitment to United Nations missions. We are indeed, as the Republican Senate warns, the solitary possessors of superpower status in the post-Cold War era, and we must live up to that status...
...post-Cold War, the intellectual and economic support has dried up. The face of terrorism begins to evolve and change," Taylor said. "It has changed to economic warfare...
Many critics cite Powell's reluctance to go to war against Iraq and his agreement to end the war before Saddam Hussein and his army were wiped out. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Powell had the chance to fundamentally reshape the armed forces for its post-cold war role. Instead he produced a timid and unimaginative plan that trimmed but did not reform the military. Yet he is a skillful facilitator and is seen as "an honest broker who can get things done." This does not make him a general in the mold of Eisenhower. But even the four...
...until one shakes to the core the political relations between the two economic superpowers. "If there is maybe one more 'standard' deal, it will be the last one," predicts Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute. Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, warns, "In the post-cold war period, at a time when security ties are no longer holding the two sides together, trade disputes could become a way of life." Some might reply that U.S.-Japanese trade disputes have been a way of life since at least the late 1960s: experts count 30 or more...
Even on its post-cold war diet, the U.S. military costs nearly as much as the rest of the world's armies put together. "There's no other country that has the requirements we're confronted with," says Defense Secretary William Perry. "Unless we're willing to back off those requirements and go into an isolationist stance, we will have a uniquely high military budget...