Word: warlords
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...next several months, they will train up to 4,000 Nigerian troops for peacekeeping missions in Africa. Clinton is grateful to Nigeria for taking such a role - one of the darkest days of his presidency occurred in 1993 when 18 American soldiers died trying to arrest an African warlord in Somalia - but, sensitive to the idea of exporting war-fighting skills to Africa, Clinton didn't visit with the newly-arrived U.S. troops during his stay...
...number - a reference to what GOP heavyweights see as the administration's inconsistent and misguided policy of "humanitarian intervention." Valid criticism, perhaps, although it's also worth remembering that the defining humanitarian debacle of the '90s - the death of 18 U.S. soldiers during a botched raid on a Somali warlord in Mogadishu -occurred in the course of a mission bequeathed by the Bush administration...
...West prefers to salve its conscience on the cheap. On the one hand, we feel a genuine moral pang when slaughter rages there. On the other, we are not willing to die ourselves to stop it. And sometimes a third factor makes the dilemma still more intractable: a warlord with absolutely no interest in peace. The result is Sierra Leone...
...against the rebels for fear of endangering the hostages. Liberia's President Charles Taylor, a longtime ally and patron of the Revolutionary United Front rebels, had over the weekend secured the release of some 139 peacekeepers after being urged to intercede by the U.N. But Taylor, himself a notorious warlord whose country has been the conduit for the diamonds mined by Sierra Leone's rebels to finance their war, warned Tuesday that any continuation of attacks against the RUF would endanger the lives of the U.N. personnel. And the international body appears inclined to heed the warning...
Shogun's political side is interesting enough in a Civilization kind of way; as daimyo--feudal warlord--of a medieval Japanese province, you extend influence through alliances, discreet Ninja assassinations and the beautiful-but-deadly geisha. But it is in the continuation of politics by other means that Shogun really excels. Battles with neighboring daimyo are conducted in real time on landscapes realistic enough to reveal the shifting shadows of birds' wings. Your own bird's-eye view is ideal for commanding battalions of archers, ashigaru (foot soldiers) and samurai. Up to 7,000 soldiers can appear at the same...