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...Rumsfeld to resign rather than force Bush to fire him. But several well-placed Republicans say that Rumsfeld's fate may be as much in the hands of the Vice President as in the President's. Although Rumsfeld is more responsible than any other man for the rise of Dick Cheney during the 1970s, their roles have since reversed, and now the protégé is protecting the mentor. Between the two of them, Cheney and Rumsfeld have run the Pentagon for almost 12 of the last 32 years. It's the federal agency each knows best, and neither...
...such dubious programs as the Air Force's $200 million F22 Raptor fighter and the Navy's $2 billion Virginia-class submarines to move forward. Everyone knows there isn't enough money to pay for all these weapons (and others on the drafting board) unless defense budgets continue to rise dramatically--and almost no one thinks that will happen. "We have not totally left behind the cold war legacy," Myers told TIME. "We need to do a lot of work to make ourselves agile and flexible to address the new security environment...
...Batista), or in honest elections (Greece's Papagos and in the U.S., Eisenhower). The generals held the headlines; so much so that, to the hurried reader, the manner of a nation's defense too often seemed more important than who and what was being defended. The rise of the generals reflected a felt need for decisiveness and a longing, often unstated, for something to put one's faith in. In such a time, the Man of the Year had to be one who could restore lost faith to a troubled people, and to serve (perhaps longer than...
...matter who ends up in the White House in January, U.S. troops are staying in Iraq indefinitely--possibly in even greater numbers. Pentagon officials say U.S. troop strength there, now at 136,000, could rise by as many as 15,000 during the first four months of 2005, as troops arriving to replace those who have been there for a tour of duty overlap. Bush has refused to set a timetable for a reduction in forces, and insists that "we will stay the course" until Iraq is stabilized. Kerry is trying to convince the public that he can turn things...
...Rolling Stones weren’t four fossils in leather pants with titles in the peerage and three-digit ticket prices. In “Stoned,” Stephen Wooley’s directorial debut, he recounts the hedonistic early days of the Stones and the rapid rise and precipitous fall of founding member and guitarist Brian Jones, played by Leo Gregory (“Green Street Hooligans?...