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...levee system fail? The Corps's system suffered from faulty design that was based on outdated scientific data. The network of canals and levees, built piecemeal over 40 years, was constructed to withstand relatively weak hurricanes, not the Katrina-size monsters that scientists had more recently warned...
...points in a military operation. This one freed a nation from dictatorship, then left Iraq on the verge of anarchy and now looks to many Americans to have been wrong from the start. The crisis has erupted at a distinctly inopportune time, with the Administration trying to reduce the size of the U.S. presence in Iraq, even as military commanders are reporting backsliding in places as diverse as Ramadi in Anbar province and Basra in the south. "We are in trouble in Iraq," says retired Army General Barry McCaffrey, who was recently invited to the White House to share that...
...Corps is a remarkably, some say oddly, tightly knit and insular culture. At 179,000 it is less than half the size of any other service- but it usually takes on the toughest fights. Even more than other services, Marines pride themselves on their ability to fight - and live their lives - with honor...
...forces in Asia loved reading TIME during the war, though the editions that they received?called ponies or colts?were miniature versions of the magazine. Still, the small size does not seem to have discouraged readers. As one document in our archives states: "Over-the-shoulder reading stimulated demand for the magazine among foreign civilians." In fact, Henry R. Luce, TIME's co-founder and editor-in-chief, had drafted a plan for an overseas organization for Time Inc. as early as 1943. At the end of the war, Charles D. Jackson, a vice president of the company...
Kabila's ascension to the leadership of Zaire, a nation of 45 million people the size of Western Europe and rich in diamonds, gold, cobalt and copper, came with stunning speed. Mobutu's ouster was the culmination of a seven-month military campaign that began as an uprising among Tutsi tribesmen in southeastern Zaire after they were ordered expelled from the country. With backing from the anti-Mobutu governments of Uganda, Rwanda and Angola, Kabila took control of and expanded the rebel movement, sweeping east to west across the vast Central African nation almost without opposition until he was camped...