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China's Balkan lesson for the Pacific By Peter Zhang Any military man will tell you that no matter how well-equipped an army is what ultimately matters is the Will. Without this technology becomes expensive accouterments. What has struck Beijing is not the fact that it was social democrats who ordered the attack on Serbia (the same people who never condemned a communist regime) but their lack of will revealed by their fear of suffering casualties. Many people have been deceived into thinking that because Clinton and Blair forced NATO into attacking Serbia this exhibited courage and determination on their part. ...

WASHINGTON--In the 1936 campaign, after four years of increased federal spending, President Roosevelt was to campaign in Pittsburgh, where in the 1932 campaign he had called for reduced federal spending. FDR directed his speechwriter, Samuel Rosenman, to "see whether you can prepare a draft giving a good and convincing explanation" of his somersault. Rosenman read the 1932 speech and told FDR only one explanation would do: "The only thing you can say about that 1932 speech is to deny categorically that you ever made it." Which brings us to the wee problem one Republican senator and some House members--all but ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Dennis Glick, Appellant, v. Dr. F. M. Henderson, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT April 14, 1988, Submitted August 25, 1988, Filed Dennis Glick, Appellant, v. Dr. F. M. Henderson, et al. Appellees No. 87-2376 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT 855 F.2d 536; 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 11592 April 14, 1988, Submitted August 25, 1988, Filed PRIOR HISTORY: [**1] Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. COUNSEL: Jo Ann L. ...

WASHINGTON, June 24 - The United States on Thursday offered a reward of up to $5 million to encourage the arrest of alleged Yugoslav war criminals, including President Slobodan Milosevic. State Department spokesman James Rubin said the money would go to "those who provide information that leads to the transfer of indicted war criminals" to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague. Click here for the full article.

1655 GMT, 990624 Yugoslavia – U.S. Marines based around Fort Monteith in southeastern Kosovo were placed on high alert after a column of Serbian tanks and armored vehicles penetrated a three-mile buffer zone around the province June 23. The column was spotted by a British helicopter, and a Cobra attack helicopter was scrambled to intercept. Additionally, combat engineers on the ground prepared tank traps to stop the incoming Serbian armor, but the Serbian column disappeared. "It’s the Russians, Stupid" 0500 GMT, 990614 President Bill Clinton had a sign taped to his desk at the beginning of his first term in ...

I respect this site and it's creator but this new 20 article format is too much. First we lost Drudge (if that was not problem enough), but now our articles and original essays are seen for only about 20 minutes (without the aid of a mouse; and you have to look hard to find that "more" button.) I do not know about the rest of you but my brothers and I (all in different cities and time zones) liked scrooling through the hundreds of stories and posts each day. On many occassions we would read the same posts without even ...

LINK to articleMEMORIAL DAY SPECIAL The Art Of War Sun Tzu and four American Presidents by Tom Adkins Over two-thousand years ago, an ancient Chinese warrior wrote a brief book on warfare. His name was Sun Tzu. His book, The Art Of War, is now a staple for virtually any military strategic training. Sun Tzu barely mentioned weaponry. Instead, he focused on strategies…strategies that convert to winning and losing. His insights into the nature of competition, battle and diplomacy apply to virtually every aspect of life, from the battlefield to the boardroom, from the football arena to the global arena. ...

BELGRADE - Yugoslav Prime Minister Momir Bulatovic said in Parliament on Thursday that conditions have been created for lifting the state of war, imposed by NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia from March 24 to June 10. "Crowning the efforts to deal with problems by political and diplomatic methods, the U.N. Security Council formally put an end to the aggression with its Resolution 1244 of June 10," Bulatovic said in his opening report. Speaking at a joint session of both chambers of the Assembly of Yugoslavia (Parliament), he stressed that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is determined to deal with all ...

NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL BY PAKISTAN? NEW DELHI (The Times of India News Service) - Is Pakistan trying to blackmail the world by threatening a nuclear war with India if the international community does not intervene in Kashmir? The answer is yes, if Pakistan information minister Mushahid Hussain's replies on BBC's `Hardtalk' programme aired on Wednesday are anything to go by. He was specifically asked by interviewer Tim Sebastian if Pakistan will commit that under no circumstances will it use nuclear weapons first, whereas India has already given such a commitment. Mr Hussain dodged the question by saying Pakistan has peaceful ...

War, said Winston Churchill, is too important a matter to be left to generals. In the case of India and Pakistan, the paradox is more apposite than ever -- given both countries have nuclear weapons -- and its implications more disturbing, given both countries are in such political disarray. Developments along the line of control in disputed Kashmir -- the cause of two of the three previous Indo-Pak wars -- and along the two countries' frontier in Punjab and Sindh, are moving both sides toward that grey area where faulty intelligence or a breakdown in command and control can lead ...

Behind the Whitewater advertising lure was the fine print of a harshly punitive real estate contract. If the elderly buyers defaulted on their monthly installments for more than thirty days they found that all their previous payments were classified merely as "rent" and that they had no equity in the land at all, regardless of how much they had put down or paid in. The results could be devastating. Clyde Soapes, a grain-elevator operator from Texas, put $3,000 down and faithfully made thirty-five monthly payments of $244.69 to the Clintons and McDougals, altogether just short of the $14.000 price of ...

Story Here Thursday June 24 2:28 AM ET Air Traffic Radar Problems Surfacing By GLEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Power outages, faulty computers and software glitches have caused at least six serious air traffic control outages from New York to Seattle since January. In some cases, passengers have been stranded overnight at airports, as happened to 100 travelers in Minneapolis earlier this week. On another occasion, in Philadelphia in May, controllers lost radio communication with six planes, leaving one to say, ``Helpless is a pretty good description.'' The government says a $13 billion upgrade of the nation's ...

July 12, 1999 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The Spies Who Fleeced Us It's always suspicious when Washingtonians start breaking into bad Latin. There may be a quid, you hear them say, and there seems to be a quo. But--aha--there's no smoking pro to connect the two. This pseudo-talk combines my least favorite styles: that of the overpaid attorney and that of the overpaid political obfuscator. Thus, it is not denied that Chinese military-industrial sources managed to transfer an awful lot of money to the Democratic National Committee. Nor is it denied that many tranches of valuable information made their way from ...

NATO's 11-week air war against Yugoslavia may not have been as successful as it was made out to be. As the alliance's warplanes begin to return home amid declarations of victory for "the most precise application of air power in history," there are growing signs civilians and strategic targets suffered far more from NATO bombing than Yugoslavia's military. The robust retreat from Kosovo last week of defiant Serb soldiers with hundreds of functioning tanks and armoured vehicles took many Western military analysts by surprise. NATO's 78-day bombardment of Yugoslavia may have inflicted far less damage on the Yugoslav army [VJ] ...

Who's To Blame? America today seems obsessed with blame. Witness media coverage of recent events. Columbine, Chinagate, President Clinton's impeachment, the tanking of the DOW... Virtually every story has a villain and that villain is adjusted from time to time depending on the circumstances. During the Columbine coverage, blame changed hands no less than 4 times and it finally seems to have settled on parents and gun owners. The impeachment of Clinton? Well it depends on which side your loyalties reside. If you're a liberal, it's the rascally republicans who are bent on embarrasing the President. If you are a ...

CIA was warned on Chinese Belgrade embassy Mid-level analyst raised red flags before Belgrade bombing MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS WASHINGTON, June 24 —  A mid-level U.S. intelligence official raised warnings internally that a target that turned out to be the Chinese embassy might not be the Yugoslav weapons agency that NATO planners intended to bomb, a senior U.S. official said Thursday. THE MID-LEVEL official, who was temporarily assigned to the CIA, had some familiarity with Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement in Belgrade and questioned whether intelligence officials developing target lists had the correct address. NBC News was ...

  Some 50 Serbs killed in Kosovo in 12 days - priest Source: AAP | Published: Friday June 25 2:58:34 AM Some 50 Serbs have been killed and about 140 kidnapped by ethnic Albanians since the start of the Kosovo peace force deployment on June 12, a Serbian Orthodox priest said today. The bodies of 10 Serbs were found in the western town of Pec yesterday, said Father Sava, head of the Decani monastery near the town. The monastery has been under the protection of Italian soldiers from KFOR. The toll was based on information gathered by the church, the ...

USA Today STATESBORO, Ga. - The essence of the military's recruiting problem is penciled in small, neat letters in Army Sgt. Matt Wickham's black book of prospects. "N.I." "Plan Col." That's shorthand for "not interested" and "plans college." He could add another: "$." When asked why the Army faces its biggest recruiting shortfall in 20 years or why the Air Force may miss its goal for the first time since 1979, the Pentagon has a standard reply: "It's the economy." Unemployment was at a 29-year low of 4.2% in May. Usually, what's good for the economy is bad for ...

Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) may be up to his keister helping the First Lady run for Senate, but bet on it - he'll go all-out to back old pal Bill Bradley for president over Veep Gore. Why hasn't he backed Bradley yet? One theory is that Moynihan is waiting to iron out a few final details with the White House on funding for his beloved Penn Station. But could the Clinton camp dare zap Penn Station with Hillary billing herself as a born-again New Yorker? Moynihan allies say that's not the point. They say he wants to give Bradley ...

Paris, Friday, June 25, 1999In Belgrade, Kosovo Didn't Happen News of the Atrocities Finds Few Believers Among the SerbsBy Michael Dobbs Washington Post ServiceBELGRADE - Determined to circumvent the information blockade over what was happening to ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Natasha Kandic, a Serbian human rights activist, decided to mount her own one-woman investigation. Last month, she traveled to the town of Pec in western Kosovo, scene of some of the cruelest atrocities, and found evidence of a mass grave containing the bodies of 44 ethnic Albanians. When she returned to Belgrade and tried to describe what she had seen, ...