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Edelstein's new book, Occupational Hazards, attempts to explain not only this high failure rate for military occupations, but also what distinguishes a successful occupation from an unsuccessful one.
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To the Editor: I am an active duty soldier that has seen the complete course of action on Iraq from inside the United States' Department of Defense and felt compelled to write my perspective on how the events transpired as we close out our military occupation of the country.
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WASHINGTON -- When unsmiling agents at the airport take away your contact lens solution, your toothpaste and cologne or after-shave, remember Osama bin Laden. Remember the real war on terror that the Bush administration and its allies decided not to fight, preferring to opt for cowboy-style military adventures. The revelation Thursday of the elaborate plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic Ocean with liquid explosives reminds us of the real threats we face -- as opposed to the phantom threats that President Bush and Tony Blair have conjured to justify their disastrous war in Iraq.
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Today, Libya stands at the crossroads of international politics, as it did when it was created as a new nation after World War II. Astute diplomacy that reflects emerging world trends not military escalation -- is crucial to create a stable future for Libya. Now, as in the past, what happens to Libya serves as a barometer of major trends of international politics. Before World War II, Libya was a colony (acquired from Turkey in 1912) in the Italian Empire. Actually, it had been two major colonies -- Tripolitania in the west (capital at Tripoli) and Cyrenaica in the east (capital at Benghazi). Benito Mussolini merged both colonies with the vast interior region of Fezzan in 1934. Under British military occupation, and as an independent kingdom, the dual capitals returned in variou...
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One of the more contentious relationships of World War II was that between French Gen. Charles de Gaulle on one side and President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the other. Indeed, scorn for de Gaulle was so deep at one point that Roosevelt and Churchill considered a military occupation of France at war's end - pending free elections - rather than putting the country into the hands of de Gaulle. But how close did this plan come to fruition? Charles L. Robertson heard the "occupation" bruited over a Paris dinner table in 1979 by a former member of de Gaulle's wartime entourage. The elderly Frenchman claimed that he and colleagues had stood on a quay and turned back a ship carrying U.S. officers "destined to establish an American-run military governm...
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THE University of Charleston and Dow Chemical performed a valuable service for the Kanawha Valley by bringing top diplomats to lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - a three-month series titled "Seeking Middle Ground in the Middle East. Now that the lectures are finished, a conclusion seems clear: It's wrong for Israel to continue its 44-year military occupation of Palestinian land, and doubly wrong for Israel to continue planting Jewish settlements amid the subjugated Palestinians in their conquered territory. As long as this encroachment prevails, hate and killing won't cease.
