Articles tagged with: Washington Post
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Friday, 13 Jan, 2012
US President, Barack Obama, unveiled last week the US Department of Defense’s January 2012 defense strategy, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense.
Based on the premise that economic fragility coupled with a changing global security environment, namely, the rise of China and political transition in the Middle East, call for a significant reshaping of US defense strategy, President Obama has proposed $489bn in defense cuts over the next 10 years, includin...
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Monday, 17 Oct, 2011
Numbers are central to the stories we tell. They leverage sentiment and ignite emotion and can be downright dangerous. But if the weight of numbers can be crushing, who is crushed depends on who has the numbers on their side. Numbers are always exaggerated or downplayed depending on the story we want to tell; Joseph Nye observed: “it’s not just whose army wins, it’s also whose story wins.”
Consider, for example, the case of the Hama Massacre in Syria in February 1982 whe...
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