Word: post-war
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...capital-intensive war plan that has left America short of troops to pacify Iraq. Just as the plaudits poured in for the Defense Secretary following the lightning victory for the U.S. forces that captured Baghdad in three weeks, so do the complaints arrive at his door when, a year later, the U.S. is struggling to achieve its war aims. That's because the DoD civilians appeared to overrule Army brass before the war in respect of troop levels required for the occupation mission, and they shut out the State Department from the process of post-war planning that proved...
...just talking about the lack of planning for post-war Iraq (although the administration can boast of such boneheaded decisions as disbanding the Iraqi security forces immediately after the invasion). Bush is also turning a blind eye to the huge deficits projected over the rest of the decade and the danger of a fiscal crunch when America’s credit lines dry up. Instead of facing up to the rising tide of red ink, Bush is pressing for his tax cuts to be made permanent, while congressional Republicans have killed attempts to revive...
Despite the book’s subtitle, though, Ozment insists that A Mighty Fortress is not a book about the masses or a people’s history. Rather he hopes that the book will recover the mainstream German history that has been lost in a post-war world...
Silence Has No Wings, a sensitive and subtle Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki, is a surrealist portrait of post-war Japan. Paranoia dominates the world it depicts, caused by the rise of the new middle class. But the film itself is quiet and controlled...
Silence Has No Wings, a sensitive and subtle Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki, is a surrealist portrait of post-war Japan. Paranoia dominates the world it depicts, caused by the rise of the new middle class. But the film itself is quiet and controlled...