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...military, however, is changing as it never has before, much as is society, in the post-Cold War era. Budgets are being downsized and rules of intervention changed to include justifications of morality. An old, tradition-bound structure is changing, and some say it should change even further...
...played a crucial role in helping to shape global policies concerning the use of armed forces in the complex environment of the post-Cold War era," said Rudenstine in a statement issued on the same day as the announcement of the speaker choice. "General Powell has had an outstanding record of distinguished service to the nation...
This declaration was greeted as a breakthrough, a new vision of America in the post-cold war world. A breakthrough it is. And a dangerous one. It is getting us into Bosnia where, despite convoluted attempts at fashioning some rationale based on some vital American interest, everyone knows we are going in for reasons of conscience...
...post-cold war liberalism, self-interest is a tainted, corrupting motive for intervention. It is not just a dispensable criterion for intervention; it is disqualifying. The apparent liberal flip-flops on intervention now begin to make sense. In the Persian Gulf, where American national interests are seriously engaged, they opposed armed intervention. In Somalia, where American national interests are not at all engaged, they supported armed intervention. And in Bosnia, where American national interests stand to be seriously jeopardized by intervention, they are positively enthusiastic for intervention...
...POST-COLD WAR WORLD, INDUSTRIAL SPYING IS A HOT issue. Recently the threat of espionage cast a pall over U.S. firms planning displays at June's Paris Air Show. Now the CIA, the FBI and other American intelligence agencies are racing to finish their first-ever systematic study of the problem of foreign governments' spying on American companies. "There is an ongoing effort right now to scope out the size of it," says a senior intelligence official. "Our answer in the past has been too anecdotal. The point of this study is to move from the anecdotal to the analytical...