- Bush to Welcome New NATO Members (March 29, 2004)
...med in 1949 to protect North America and western Europe from attack by the Soviet Union. In Washington, Bush and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer... - Protesters call for a Chestnut Revolution (November 25, 2004)
...por, which helped to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. Although the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many Ukrainians feel they have gained little in the pos... - Coming in 2005: Revolution (January 1, 2005)
... Russian and French revolutions, the eruptions of ‘68, and the fall of the Soviet Empire, the economic and political pressures are building up to boiling po... - Turn Off Your Tunnel Vision (January 6, 2002)
...... - US Deploys Military Advisers to Georgia (February 27, 2002)
...US military advisers have arrived in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to train its forces in the fight against terrorism, ac... - Russia Recasts Bog in Caucasus as War on Terror (October 5, 2002)
...eks. For the Russians, the recent events are are a haunting echo of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan, when American-supplied Stinger missiles helped Afgha... - Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost (August 24, 1998)
...tant, pivotal matters that played an important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union,î he said. HINDSIGHT OR TUNNEL VISION It should be pointed out tha... - In Kabul, American Diplomats Are Conspicuously Absent (December 8, 2001)
...... - Energy Concerns Drive Push into Central Asia (March 8, 2002)
...nd extending US (along with Israeli and Turkish) influence into the former Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Once dismissed as being to... - Huge Trade Deal Draws Russia to Iraq (August 17, 2002)
... weeks. It will include new projects as well as the modernisation of Soviet-built infrastructure in Iraq, but will not violate United Nations trade sa... - US Bartering Arms for Soldiers in Iraq (August 1, 2003)
... bolster a multinational force that now includes troops mostly from former Soviet republics and Latin American nations. The Indian government, which wit... - Reaching and Grasping (February 16, 2003)
... of fact, at least a dozen nations in Asia and Africa, not counting former Soviet republics, that are thought to possess bioweapons. Among them, besides Ira... - Situation Deteriorating Rapidly in Afghanistan (August 28, 2002)
...lsing the Soviet invasion but also for contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union itself. They will jump at the opportunity to trap another superpower in th... - D-Day for Colin Powell (July 28, 2002)
...constantly with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger over how to handle the Soviet Union. The sharks circling around Mr. Powell include Vice President Dick Chen... - Iraqi Insurgents Take Page from Afghan Soviet Resistance (November 9, 2003)
...mily took up arms. Sadly, this same rule probably applies in Iraq. The Soviet Union tried to denigrate the Afghan mujahedeen by calling them bandits. This did... - Leahy Likens TIPS to Cold War Paranoia (July 17, 2002)
... to report suspicious terrorist activity." "We used to laugh at the old Soviet Union idea where everybody reported everybody else," said Leahy. " ... We don't... - FBI Campaign Against Einstein Revealed (June 8, 2002)
...Hoover to get Albert Einstein arrested as a political subversive or even a Soviet spy. Uncovered FBI files are revealed in a book by Fred Jerome who say... - Global Power (October 13, 2002)
...ion that started with the biggest triumph of the West: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the East-West divide. A growing rift looms between the U... - Mandela: US a Threat to World Peace (September 10, 2002)
...ly stitched together by the United Nations regarding the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. If you look at those matters, you will come to the concl... - General tells Bush: Don't go it alone (August 19, 2002)
...a to help Iraq to modernise much of its infrastructure, which was built by Soviet or Russian specialists. President Putin supports lifting United Nation... - Transcript: Interview with Hamid Karzai (June 27, 2002)
...ped this country in the past very much in the times of our war against the Soviet Union and afterwards. And that's why she has the most important job now in this... - American Exceptionalism (October 25, 2004)
...ions have been allowed by the United States to develop nuclear weapons—the Soviet Union, radical Maoist China, and, most recently, Pakistan. Besides, the Unit... - Anatomy of Terror (February 13, 2004)
...ng more than the same independence achieved by other regions of the former Soviet Union, have been treated much the way people in 1860s' Georgia were treated when... - General Warns of Unwinnable Guerrilla War (March 22, 2002)
...at the allies were drifting into a position similar to that which assailed Soviet forces after their invasion in 1979. "They won big victories to start with... - US Can't Locate Missiles Once Held in Iraqi Arsenal (October 8, 2003)
...then are required to requalify quarterly. The SA-7 was developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1960's, and there are Chinese versions as well. It is the most... - US Expands Its Presence Across the Globe (March 8, 2002)
... in that country would have been unthinkable, both as a former part of the Soviet Union and also close to the Chinese border. The base will have 3,000 personnel -... - The World in 2005 (March 1, 2002)
...Mubarak's banal authoritarianism represents the Egyptian equivalent of the Soviet Union's Brezhnev-Chernenko era. There is no Mikhail Gorbachev on the horizon. Sa... - The Pentagon Connection (January 20, 2003)
... are converting quickly to the state capitalistic-oligarchic model and the Soviet Union is no more. First, Professor Melman cites the Report Card for America's... - Bush Expands Commitment of U.S. to Global War on Terror (March 11, 2002)
...time that the United States would send 150 military trainers to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, where he said terrorists working with Al Qaeda operat... - War May Reshape Global Order (March 19, 2003)
...ewly perceived threats. To the West, it was the rise of an expansionist Soviet Union that drove its organizing principle. While it did take some years for enmi... - America's Shady Ally Against Terror (March 11, 2002)
...OSLO — When the Soviet Union fell apart, most of its provincial Communist dictators did not. Instead, t... - Imagining the Worst-Case Scenario in Iraq (September 12, 2002)
...anny dedicated to its own preservation, is not that different from the old Soviet Union, and it is no coincidence that the same deterrence that restrained the Kre... - Returning to Istalif (August 1, 2002)
... 1,000 merchants. Istalif managed to survive Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union. But when the Taliban arrived, the Shomali Plain turned into the front lin... - Little New in Iraq Report (September 9, 2002)
...etting its hands on the necessary ingredients (from elements in the former Soviet Union, for example, or a rogue government) but that if it did, then it could mov... - Anti-War Group Revives 'Daisy' Ad (January 16, 2003)
...as an extremist who might lead the United States to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The ad created such negative reaction that it was pulled after only one s... - War on Terror May Extend to Cuba (May 7, 2002)
...veloped and sophisticated biomedical industry, supported until 1990 by the Soviet Union. "This industry is one of the most advanced in Latin America, and lead... - A Polite Mutiny (July 25, 2002)
...iance's member countries, and in most of the former Warsaw Pact and former Soviet countries that are members of the Partnership for Peace. Washington needs... - A Silent Act of Rebellion Raises a Din in Ukraine (November 28, 2004)
...tate television. In Ukraine, as in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union, state ownership or control over the media, especially television, exerts... - US Offers Israel Aid Package as Shelter from Iraqi Attacks (October 21, 2002)
...soft loans to help the integration of a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, but then the aid was made conditional on it not being used in the Palesti... - Developing Nations Deserve to Have Leading Positions on International Bodies (March 27, 2004)
...go. After World War II Germany and Japan were the defeated aggressors, the Soviet Union posed a major threat, and China was engulfed in a civil war that would bri... - After Battle, Injured Foes Are Treated With Allies (March 10, 2002)
...g thing about the field hospital run by the United States Army at this old Soviet airfield is that wounded Americans lie side by side with Taliban and Al Qa... - Tribal Leaders in Pakistan Warn the US to Keep Out (March 25, 2002)
...as a time, when Russia was in power, we liked Americans." Indeed, when the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, men from the tribal areas joined the guerrilla army... - Keeping Troops out of the Question, Schroeder Lists Criteria for 'Yes' Vote on Iraq (May 28, 2004)
...nsnational armaments companies. During the Cold War, the mutual threat of Soviet communism made collective security under the U.S.-led NATO alliance the on... - Karzai Takes On Secret Service Led by Defense Minister (July 24, 2002)
...sible for monitoring "the ideology of the workers" — a reminder of a Soviet Union that no longer exists. Vice President Nematullah Shahrani, the other ch... - George Bush's New Imperialism (August 4, 2002)
...ad links to the CIA and MI6. But the Baath regime then flirted with the Soviet Union, so the U.S., Britain, and Israel joined Iran in arming and funding Iraq's... - US, Russia at Odds Over War (February 3, 2002)
...y alone, doubts about NATO's continued relevance since the collapse of the Soviet Union are being voiced again. NATO Secretary General George Robertson, in a n... - Afghan Jihadi Leader Hekmatyar Says Iran Not Telling Truth About Bank Account (December 22, 2004)
...get out of Afghanistan like the Soviets and they will face the fate of the Soviet Union, God willing, and their puppet regime will collapse as soon as they leave.... - NATO Leaders Join Demands for Iraq to Disarm (November 21, 2002)
...n of NATO, the trans-Atlantic alliance born of the cold war to contain the Soviet Union. He called on the alliance to re-create itself as a leaner and swifter mil... - Bustling US Air Base Materializes in the Mud (April 27, 2002)
...next to a sleepy airport in what used to be a nearly forgotten part of the Soviet Union. Today it looks like a scene from "M*A*S*H" and is at the new front lin... - War Without Evidence (September 10, 2002)
...he formulation of Vice President Cheney, Iraq somehow morphed into the old Soviet Union: "If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the... - Poland To Sell Helicopters, Equipment to Iraqi Army (December 15, 2004)
...ary. His Iraqi counterpart Ziad Catan said 20 Polish-built Sokol and 24 Soviet-designed Mi-17 transport helicopters would be included in the sale. Und... - Ghosts of Vietnam Era Haunt US in Endgame (March 5, 2002)
...d President Carter proudly that America "had the opportunity of giving the Soviet Union its Vietnam war". But he must be having second thoughts now. In Gardez and... - Rumsfeld Admits Number of Security Forces May Have Been Underestimated (December 7, 2003)
...Belgium, where Rumsfeld attended NATO meetings. He also went to the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia. In Iraq he met with senior U.S. co... - On the Greater Middle East (March 1, 2004)
...om the usual talk in countries that once belonged to the Eastern Bloc. The Soviet Union had collapsed and the main issue discussed was which of the two regions wa... - As the War Shifts Alliances, Oil Deals Follow (December 15, 2001)
...p Webb & Tyler in Manhattan. "But all have been badly burned in the former Soviet Union before." Skeptics, especially in the Islamic world, contend that oil i... - Afghan Unity Serves Whom? (February 14, 2002)
...n the 1980s, Fahim became a general while fighting Karzai's Pashtuns under Soviet command. After Soviet forces left Afghanistan, Fahim (an ethnic Tajik) ser... - A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions (October 23, 2001)
...mits of government-sponsored "unity," we might ask the soldiers of the old Soviet Union. They marched with their pledges and anthems into the treacherous terrain... - Message from Bush: 'War Within Weeks' (January 24, 2003)
...the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, who dramatically confronted the Soviet envoy with vivid aerial photographs of nuclear missiles being unloaded in... - Should History Record the Unvarnished Bush? (April 16, 2002)
...o mention of the hecklers or Bush's false starts. The opposition sees a Soviet-style move to airbrush infelicitous phrases. "These transcripts are done f... - Could the Orange Revolution be just a mirage in the snow? (November 28, 2004)
...h Russia itself eventually emerged, and 13 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union Ukraine remains vitally important to Moscow. Its rolling steppe is criss-c... - An Ever More Dangerous Dependency (February 27, 2004)
... never subsided, whether they are from the Middle East or Russia. Even the Soviet Union was a reliable supplier. Nonetheless, a debate over the future of Germa... - Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11 (September 8, 2002)
...sama bin Laden's operatives in Afghanistan to a phone number in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. The caller said he had "heard good news" and that... - Troops Arrive in Yemen (May 16, 2002)
...so, in a few days U.S. troops are expected to arrived in Georgia, a former Soviet republic, to train troops there. The country has asked for assistance... - US Suffers Heavy Losses in Afghan Offensive (April 6, 2002)
... Hakkani, who became famous for starting the resistance movement against Soviet troops in the early 1980s, is believed to have wide support among the loca... - UN Calls on Israel to Withdraw (March 30, 2002)
... first boycott of a council vote in 42 years, dating back to 1960 when the Soviet Union stayed away from a session that created a peacekeeping mission in the Cong... - Examination of a 'Loya Jirga' (June 10, 2002)
...ecent history is not too stunning. A 1987 loya jirga attempted to make the Soviet-backed government of President Najibullah Afghanistan's legitimate rulers... - The Bush Deceit (August 14, 2003)
...der. But independent analysis by me and a colleague, using extremely sharp Soviet satellite photos, showed no evidence whatever of a significant Iraqi force... - Afghan Regime Change One Year Later (October 8, 2002)
...tates, let alone the international community, can be. When the defeated Soviet Army retreated in 1989 after a disastrous 10-year occupation, Afghanistan'... - Gephardt Backs Force Against Iraq (June 5, 2002)
...itional funding to safeguard the remaining nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. While he said the administration "deserves credit" for the military v... - Chechen President Killed in Bomb Blast at Parade (May 10, 2004)
...hev allowed them to return in 1957. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dzhokhar Dudayev declared Chechen independence in 1991. The Russian p... - Next Target: Iran? (December 18, 2004)
... live with unfriendly nations having nuclear weapons. The U.S. allowed the Soviet Union to obtain nuclear weapons in the 1940s and radical Maoist China to get the... - The Eagle Has Crash Landed (July 9, 2002)
..., from want, and from fear)óand entered into a strategic alliance with the Soviet Union, making possible the defeat of Germany and its allies. World War II res... - The Empire Expands Wider and Still Wider (June 11, 2003)
...orld transformed, but they knew well, even at the peak of the power of the Soviet Union, that world domination was beyond them, and contrary to cold war rhetoric... - 'Rogue' No More – US Eyes Oil in Libya, Sudan (June 18, 2002)
...even in the world of oil. George Bush Sr. thought that the collapse of the Soviet Union had increased the chances of obtaining a new ocean of oil and natural gas... - Rattling New Sabers (March 10, 2002)
...nough of which, in theory, would survive any plausible first strike by the Soviet Union, the only real strategic threat that the United States faced. Now that... - Anti-War Then, Anti-War Now (October 8, 2002)
...dy, in 1961 and 1962, rejected the argument for preventive war against the Soviet Union, protecting a moral boundary. "For 175 years," Edward Kennedy quotes Rober... - Doubts Raised Over al Qaeda Arms Cache Discovery (May 12, 2002)
...tion, the agency claimed that the ammunition and weapons dated back to the Soviet occupation during the 1980s and were not part of Al-Qaeda's arsenal. B... - U.S. Soldier Killed in Fierce Fighting in Eastern Afghanistan (March 1, 2002)
...ains around Gardez have been a hiding place for Afghan warriors since anti-Soviet guerrillas used them as a base for their fight against Soviet troops in th... - Losing Our Best Allies in the War on Terror (August 20, 2002)
...rom Southern Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, the nations of the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and North and South America – continue this discussion. ... - Pressure Mounts on Nuclear Iran (June 16, 2003)
...secure vulnerable radioactive sources within the territories of the former Soviet Union.... - Around the World, Hints of Afghanistans to Come (May 24, 2002)
...now see meeting the criteria are Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan and three former Soviet republics, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The chance of any of these... - Saudis Vow Support for the UN on Iraq (September 16, 2002)
...en by fighting the enforcement resolution." He noted that in 1990, the Soviet Union had sought such a course to respond to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, but t... - The Two Faces of Saudi Arabia (May 22, 2002)
...r and volunteered to mobilize veterans of the 1979-89 Afghan jihad against Soviet occupation to defend Saudi Arabia against Iraq. The Saudi government decli... - To keep a population in line, wage perpetual war against a vague enemy (March 10, 2002)
...o country, not even one as powerful as the United States after it lost the Soviet Union as its only rival, can hijack such an important concept as war without in... - Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Overrated as a Threat to America (January 28, 2004)
...ntative invasions. The United States took this route when the totalitarian Soviet Union and the even more radical Maoist China were developing nuclear weapons. De... - Prove Us Wrong, Henry (December 3, 2002)
...a system designed to defend U.S. land-based missiles. The problem was that Soviet forces had little capability against these U.S. weapons — meaning that the... - Two Terror Allies Get More US Troops (April 8, 2002)
...beyond Afghanistan to the Gulf, the Philippines and probably to the former Soviet republic of Georgia. About 575 U.S. troops, including 160 special force... - Pinprick Attacks on US Forces Mount Worldwide (October 9, 2002)
...rowing as US forces expand operations to include deployments in the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and even to Djibouti and... - Mandela Blasts US Attack Threats (September 2, 2002)
...ddam said the U.N. sanctions on Iraq were aimed in part to "prevent former Soviet Union countries from cooperating economically with Iraq." In a speech at the... - Afghanistan Imperiled (September 26, 2002)
... will lead Washington to forget Afghanistan, just as it did after the 1989 Soviet withdrawal. The war against terrorism has shown notable successes with... - Georgia Says Al Qaeda in Its Rebel Abkhazia Zone (March 7, 2002)
...s security, but played down talk of permanent American bases in the former Soviet republic. "If I said that the Americans had a strong desire to set up... - US Troops Were Subjected to Wide Chemical Weapon Testing (October 9, 2002)
...t and the time period," he added. "We were involved in a cold war with the Soviet Union and had great concerns about what they might do. I think history has prove... - A Kind of Fascism is Replacing Our Democracy (July 18, 2003)
... take different forms, as Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union suggest. The American system is evolving its own form: "inverted totali... - No Answer (July 21, 2003)
...ughly ignore African suffering. In the 1970s and 1980s, fearful of growing Soviet influence on the continent, the United States enlisted dictators and would... - Diplomacy in Ruins (March 18, 2003)
...of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into the territory of the former Soviet Union. In the Middle East, Washington shortsightedly stepped backed from the wor... - Rumblings in Iran (December 11, 2002)
...s in power certainly do not seem to have lost the will to rule. Unlike the Soviet ruling class behind Gorbachev, the Iranian hard-liners have shown no reluc... - At the UN, it's not just about Iraq (October 30, 2002)
...," Mr. Henriksen says. Any Russian still longing for the glory days of the Soviet Union, "feels strongly that Putin has to stiffen his response to the US." A S... - NATO Mulls Rapid Response (November 5, 2002)
...w enemies far from Europe, the area NATO was formed to protect against the Soviet Union 53 years ago. NATO members may also announce commitments to acquire new ai... - Heavy US Bombing in E. Afghanistan (March 3, 2002)
...ains around Gardez have been a hiding place for Afghan warriors since anti-Soviet guerrillas used them as a base for their fight against Soviet troops in th... - CIA Plans New Iraqi Spy Agency Using Baathist Agents (December 11, 2003)
...gn intelligence services have had mixed results. After the fall of the Soviet Union, high-level CIA officials traveled to each newly independent state offerin... - The United States, Territorial Security and the Threats Against It (November 22, 2004)
...g and freedom movements became widespread, while arms competition with the Soviet Union was approaching its height. Parallel to such expansionism, the concept of... - The Guerilla Trap in Afghanistan (March 23, 2002)
...n lands. America's own costly experience in Vietnam and the example of the Soviet Union's more recent failures in Afghanistan highlighted the perils of foreign mi... - The Geopolitics of War (November 5, 2001)
...n the kingdom reached a new level in 1979, when three things happened: The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by antigovernment for... - An Interview With Gene Sharp (July 9, 2003)
...was just finishing, nuclear weapons were new, Stalin was in control of the Soviet Union, colonialism was strong, and war was a problem because we knew a little ab... - Pearl Harbor in Reverse (October 23, 2002)
...t is not with Iraq, President Kennedy rejected a pre-emptive attack on the Soviet missiles. Striking first, his brother Robert said, was un-American—it woul... - Al-Qa'ida's Al-Ablaj Warns 'Zero Hour' for Strike Inside US Has Been Set (December 28, 2003)
...a's possible possession of some nuclear briefcases from some of the former Soviet Union's republics. Though the likely US targets are not known to the US secur... - America is a Religion (July 29, 2003)
...ngdom of hell could also now be located on earth: the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union, against which His holy warriors were pitched. Since the attacks on Ne... - How The US Blurred The Line Between Aid And The Armed Forces (July 29, 2004)
... working for coalition forces. "Christian Aid worked in Afghanistan in the Soviet period and under the Taliban," Mr Nutt says. "This the most dangerous peri... - Chomsky v. Bennett Debate on Terrorism (May 30, 2002)
...uge were grossly exaggerated. This is the man who said when we engaged the Soviet Union that we... CHOMSKY: No, it's not. But that is... BENNETT: I didn't i... - The Long and Short of It (September 8, 2002)
...wo Central Asian republics, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, former parts of the Soviet Union, welcomed U.S. bases on their territory, creating a new geopolitical reali... - Regime Change (January 27, 2003)
...e allowed to gain a foothold in the region. That meant that any sign of Soviet influence - real or perceived - would be fought. Left-leaning governments... - A New Grand Strategy (January 1, 2002)
..., when the world was essentially divided between the United States and the Soviet Union, a number of astute foreign-policy thinkersóincluding Walter Lippmann, Geo... - Arab League Chief Warns US Against Wider War (June 14, 2002)
...security." NATO, created in 1949 to counter the threat of a large-scale Soviet-led attack, shifted its focus after the Cold War ended in the 1990s, putti... - Four Nations Thought To Possess Smallpox (November 5, 2002)
...y to diplomatic assurances, Russia retains covert stocks of the virus. The Soviet Union produced smallpox by the ton — a laborious endeavor, since the standard me... - The Legality of Using Force (September 21, 2002)
...tations the Charter places on the right of self-defense. When intercepting Soviet ships carrying missiles to Cuba, he was careful to invoke the authority gr... - A Path of Lies (September 9, 2003)
...ur essential goodness in waging it. That's why Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as the "evil empire." Not coincidentally, the words, "evil" and "evildoers... - 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' Meaningless (October 7, 2002)
...ecently there have been accidental releases of smallpox and anthrax in the Soviet Union and Ebola exposure in the United States; all did far less harm than would... - US Embassy in Kabul May Be Attacked (June 6, 2002)
...ic group, Hekmatyar received the lion's share of U.S. funding to fight the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. During the civil war that followed... - How Bush Wealth is Linked to The Holocaust (June 1, 2002)
...workers. Originally Hitler promised Stalin they would share Poland and use Soviet prisoners as slaves in Polish factories. Hitler's promise never actually m... - US Supported al Qaeda Cells During Balkan Wars (March 15, 2002)
...University, mujahedeen fighters who travelled to Afghanistan to resist the Soviet occupation in the 1980s later "migrated to Bosnia hoping to assist their I... - The Arab Street Explodes (March 22, 2003)
...ands of Arab Afghans (a term applied to Arabs who volunteered to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan) have entered Iraq to participate in suicide missions again... - Rumsfeld's Personal Spy Ring (July 16, 2003)
...Feith accused the CIA of underestimating the military dangers posed by the Soviet Union. (Following the Soviet Union's collapse, it became clear the CIA had been... - Guerrilla War in Iraq Out of Control (July 22, 2003)
...rinted by the occupation authorities, they are — in the grand style of all Soviet propaganda during the Afghan war — "subversive elements." When Operati... - Chechen Attacks on Russia: A Harbinger for the United States? (September 6, 2004)
...hadists from around the world to Afghanistan in the 1980s to beat back the Soviet invasion and what now drives the zealous Chechen attacks on the Russians a... - 'Fiercely Independent' Clan Accused of Harboring Al-Qa'ida in Pakistan (March 24, 2003)
...rent wars in Afghanistan. "Some were part of the mujahedin fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, others joined the Taliban, and sub... - Reviewing Intelligence on Iraq (May 26, 2003)
...he Russians could make a hydrogen bomb, never spotted the vast size of the Soviet germ warfare program and failed to realize how close Saddam Hussein was to... - A Powerful Figure in and Out of Afghan Government (July 7, 2002)
...carved out a reputation as a commander of the mujahedeen forces who fought Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980's, and he later became the most powerful... - A20 Analysis: On Stopping Open-Ended, Permanent War (April 25, 2002)
...ied Saddam Hussein's hold on power. Our government secretly sponsored anti-Soviet fundamentalists in Afghanistan and this led to the rise of the Taliban and... - Pentagon Moving B-2 Bombers Closer to Baghdad (November 7, 2002)
...bomb, on Hiroshima in 1945 — was created to carry nuclear weapons into the Soviet Union. But by the time the first plane, the Spirit of Missouri, touched down at... - 'Inadequate' US troops pulled out of battleground (March 12, 2002)
...go.î As dawn broke, hundreds of Afghan fighters mounted their creaking Soviet-era tanks and set off towards the snow-covered ridge of Shahi-Kot, where t... - US Builds New Jumping Off Base in Eritrea (July 13, 2002)
...island of Jamil. In these locations, the US forces can avail themselves of Soviet port facilities, landing strips, headquarters and structures built there i... - Like Father, Unlike Son (September 2, 2002)
...ukewarm about military response to Saddam's aggression, he joined with the Soviet Union's Yevgeny Primakov to propose a last-minute compromise. After grumpily mis... - Port Huron at 40 (August 5, 2002)
...While the draft Port Huron Statement included a strong denunciation of the Soviet Union, it wasn't enough for LID leaders like Michael Harrington. They wanted abs... - A Grand Strategy of Transformation (December 1, 2002)
...cuously, the Nixon-Kissinger attempt, during the early 1970s, to bring the Soviet Union within the international system of satisfied states. We've had examples of... - White House Web Scrubbing (December 18, 2003)
...It's not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace t... - US Allowed Weapons to Flood Iraq (July 17, 2003)
...conspicuously allowed to keep small arms and that omnipresent relic of the Soviet Union, the Kalashnikov, for household defense. The message still seemed to be th... - An Unnecessary War (January 1, 2003)
...aq effectively—even if Saddam has nuclear weapons—just as it contained the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Regardless of whether Iraq complies with U.N. inspect... - Afghan Defense Official Looks Warily at Iraq (December 6, 2002)
...arzai reportedly thinks that most of the mujaheddin, soldiers who resisted Soviet invaders in the 1980s, are not educated enough or lack the requisite reput... - New US Doctrine Worries Europeans (September 29, 2002)
...lear disarmament and against President Ronald Reagan's tough stance on the Soviet Union. But here in Brussels, opposition to what is seen as the administration's... - Ashcroft Wants Muslim Visa Holders Registered, Fingerprinted (June 5, 2002)
...n," Mr. Zogby added. "The message it sends is that we're becoming like the Soviet Union, with people registering at police stations." The authority for propos... - War, Incorporated (July 17, 2002)
...a landmass as the key to global dominance. He asserts that the fall of the Soviet Union cleared the way for the U.S. to become the first non-Eurasian power to dom... - Fears Prompt U.S. to Beef Up Nuclear Terror Detection (March 3, 2002)
...f weapons labs and storage sites that began to crumble with the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Russia has decommissioned some 10,000 tactical nuclear weapons si... - Armed to the Teeth (February 10, 2002)
...nal human rights abuses — China, Pakistan, India and Russia and the former Soviet states. And even among them are flashpoints in Kashmir, Chechnya and Tibet... - Debunk the Myth of Al Qaeda (May 23, 2002)
...nally referred to an Afghan operational base for the mujahideen during the Soviet occupation in the '80s. In the current context of Osama bin Laden's ter... - Politics And The CIA (November 16, 2004)
...ibillion-dollar spy satellite programs—that were useful in keeping tabs on Soviet conventional forces. After the Cold War ended and terrorism became the dom... - Saddam is Ours, but Does al Qaeda Care? (December 17, 2003)
...ominent lessons of history — including America's defeat in Vietnam and the Soviet Army's in Afghanistan. But as useful as Iraq undoubtedly has been as a... - Morning in Iraq? (July 6, 2004)
...rned lessons from U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The guerrillas will keep up their hit-and-run a... - Rumsfeld Offers US Support for Georgia (December 5, 2003)
...retary Donald H. Rumsfeld pledged full U.S. support Friday for this former Soviet republic and said Russia is obliged to withdraw its troops as promised. ... - Kill Missile Defense Now (December 20, 2004)
... hearts of the Soviets that it helped collapse the East bloc—was belied by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s dismissal of Reagan’s dream by saying that h... - Tomahawk, Power Tool (March 21, 2003)
...gree of resentment and anger," says Beevor. "In the Ottoman empire, or the Soviet Union, the populations of villages would cry when their troops went off to fight... - U.S. Policy Harms Prospects For Middle East Peace (November 22, 2004)
... been able to significantly modernize its military after the demise of its Soviet benefactor. Historically, Israeli security has not necessarily been cor... - Making Themselves Feel Right at Home (April 29, 2002)
... in-country base for coalition forcesóan air of permanence is taking hold. Soviet-era military debrisófrom MiG fighters to helmetsóis being bulldozed into p... - American Primacy in Perspective (July 1, 2002)
...ipolar Moment," America and the World 1990/91). In the following years the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia's economic and military decline accelerated, and Japan s... - The Wrong Man to Promote Democracy (February 21, 2004)
...nder the gaze of the omnipresent secret police. Newspapers are filled with Soviet-style hagiography: Mr. ben Ali is called the Architect of Change, a title... - US Raids Along Afghan Border Seen as Lasting Past Summer (May 6, 2002)
...lor it to meet specific threats. The United States is acutely aware of the Soviet disaster in Afghanistan, and is consciously keeping a relatively small mil... - Chairman Walks Out of Afghan Council (December 31, 2003)
...early 1990's. He praised the jihad, when the Afghans fought against the Soviet occupation, but said the 12 years of fighting that followed had been "sens... - Perle Speaks at Charity with 'Terrorist Ties' (January 29, 2004)
...the current Iranian government supports terrorism and said the fall of the Soviet empire foreshadowed the fate of the mullahs who he said control Iran. He s... - Anti-War Voices Can Trump Bush's Failed Iraq Policy (October 3, 2002)
...to Frances Fitzgerald in The New York Review of Books, Cheney didn't trust Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and advised President Reagan to keep up Cold War... - A 'heartbreaking' decision: MSF leaves Afghanistan (July 28, 2004)
...orces. The aid agency has been in Afghanistan since 1980 ? through the Soviet occupation, the mujahideen resistance, the Taliban's rule and the US-led w... - Afghans: US Forces Killed Wrong People (January 27, 2002)
...can and anti-Taliban forces found a cache of rocket-propelled grenades and Soviet-made ordnance close to the Kandahar airfield, according to Command Sgt. Ma... - Iraqis Reject US Explanations of Explosions (April 28, 2003)
...family — one son, three grandsons and two of their wives — who died when a Soviet-made Frog-7 missile exploded on their doorstep, demolishing two houses and... - What Is a Neo-Conservative Anyway? (August 13, 2003)
...versary above all," a refrain familiar to past neo-con descriptions of the Soviet Union, China, and other geo-political foes. Finally, US engagement in world... - Allies Preparing for Long Fight as Taliban Dig In (October 28, 2001)
...my to take the fight to the Taliban. The idea is to avoid the mistakes the Soviet Union made in Afghanistan and the political repercussions in the Islamic world o... - Nepal's Leader to Seek Help from Bush (May 4, 2002)
...upies a section of the Himalayas claimed by India. Since the demise of the Soviet Union, China has focused more on reinforcing its southwestern border by moving t... - Simplistic Hunt for Evil in a Complex World (August 20, 2002)
...he moujahedeen, who were once hailed by the Reagan administration as anti- Soviet "freedom fighters.'' And that the Taliban government was congratulated by... - Bush Hears War Naysayers (August 12, 2002)
...trategy. Doughty cold warrior Richard Perle, a hero of the victory over Soviet Russia, at the moment terrorists struck Sept. 11 laid out a strategy enjoy... - 'Anyone With a Gun is the Government' (December 28, 2002)
...rs, guns poured into the country as foreign-backed rebel groups fought the Soviet occupation and then the Taliban. Now, those militias find themselves as th... - Afghan Group Claims US Attacks (September 2, 2002)
...ted States and called on all anti-American forces to unite. During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, Hekmatyar had guerrilla camps tucked... - Missile Defense: Protecting America or the President’s Reelection Chances? (October 11, 2004)
...eagan “Star Wars” vision that only fancifully would have stopped a massive Soviet nuclear attack and made atomic weapons obsolete. And even that assumes tho... - US May Have Been 'Totally Duped' on Iraqi Weapons Intelligence (August 28, 2003)
...n of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cited the discovery this month of about 30 Soviet-era high-speed fighters and reconnaissance aircraft that had been buried i... - Afghan Vice President Qadir Gunned Down (July 7, 2002)
...r played a leading role in the downfall of the Taleban and also fought the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. His younger brother, Mujahideen commander Abd... - India Doubting its US 'Strategic Partnership' (March 27, 2004)
...-US military ties in the 1980s when they launched a joint campaign to send Soviet troops packing from Afghanistan. Now the US and Pakistan have launched wha... - Taliban Prisoners Die After Surrender (December 11, 2001)
...ill hurt them and that we will treat the injured," said General Jurabek, a Soviet-trained officer. "I explained to them that Osama bin Laden is a vile hard-... - Europeans Angry, Disgusted with Bush (February 16, 2003)
...y in Moscow. Russians' lack of concern for Iraq, a longtime ally of the Soviet Union, was evident in a poll last week by Moscow's Public Opinion Foundation, wh... - A Challenge that Remains Ungrasped (September 10, 2003)
...abs and Americans promoted a campaign of resistance and terror against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In the 1990s, militant Islamists who were galva... - It's Empire Versus Democracy (September 10, 2002)
... created by the failures of political Arab nationalism (and the end of the Soviet Union, which, whatever else may be said, supported non-religious revolutionary m... - Military Lands Exactly Where It Didn't Want To (March 6, 2002)
...rmer military commanders. "It pretty much follows the trajectory of the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan, which was very successful at the beginning and th... - Hostilities in the Other US War (March 31, 2003)
...raq drags on — as the US did following the Afghan war in the 1980s to oust Soviet invaders. Afghan officials, meanwhile, worry that the slow pace of reco... - Living By The Sword (September 2, 2002)
...h the world is in a similar situation today. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and of the socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, the US has become the sole... - Karzai Faces Revolt In Fragile Coalition (October 5, 2003)
...the Islamic militias had "destroyed the results" of their struggle against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. Speaking on BBC Afghan-language radio today, he s... - Peace Activism a Tough Sell on Campus (April 21, 2002)
...left that some students cannot identify with them. Despite the death of Soviet socialism, old-line rhetoric is alive and well. A meeting of anti-war s... - War Could Be Economic Suicide (February 27, 2003)
...ire lasted for a century (or perhaps two, depending on how you count). The Soviet Union held up for seven decades. Napoleon was finished in just 15 years. Ther... - Can We Kill Osama's Ideas? (January 1, 2002)
... holy-war clearinghouse for several thousand ragtag Arab volunteers in the Soviet-Afghan Waróevolved into the highly organized anti-American terrorist group... - The Sunshine Warrior (September 22, 2002)
...n what to prepare for. An early draft proposed that with the demise of the Soviet Union the United States doctrine should be to assure that no new superpower aros... - America Alone in the World (September 23, 2002)
...rous moral and political precedent. Deterrence worked well against the Soviet Union, a much more potent and, at one point, malevolent adversary. If applied co... - The State of Humanity (December 28, 2002)
...0s, Human Rights Day was the occasion for impassioned denunciations of the Soviet Union, technically accurate but with extreme cynicism that utterly resists expos... - New Rules for Israel and Syria (October 13, 2003)
... practice its right of self-defense," she said. The increasingly creaky Soviet equipment here is no match for the American military equipment owned by Is... - Al-Qaeda's Thumbs Up for Bush (June 24, 2004)
...quire them. The most likely source of a nuclear device would be the former Soviet Union, he believes. Dirty bombs, chemical and biological weapons, could be home-... - Lies We Are Told About Iraq (January 5, 2003)
...would be held hostage if Iraq succeeded. The reality was different. Two Soviet satellite photos obtained by the St. Petersburg Times raised questions abo... - A Rogue's Gallery of War Profiteers (July 14, 2003)
...ries in Kazakhstan and worked on other privatization efforts in the former Soviet Union involving health, financing, and service delivery activities. Abt has also... - US Unable to Identify Sources of Nuclear Terror (July 1, 2002)
...d change rapidly over the near termî without steps to better secure former Soviet materials. Updated Response Plan Needed The report also recommends u... - Peace is Hell (March 3, 2002)
... gay outings." But communists deposed the king in a 1978 coup, and the Soviet Red Army invaded the next year. The Inter-Continental was caught in the cr... - Anti-Americanism, Russia, and Negative Values (June 6, 2002)
...both appealing and powerful, according to Vladimir Shlapentokh, scholar of Soviet and Russian affairs and professor at Michigan State University. He asserts... - Report: US Has a Plan to Occupy Iraq (October 11, 2002)
... as Japan was, and avoiding the kind partition that Germany underwent when Soviet troops stayed in the eastern sector, which set the stage for the cold war.... - Karzai Survives Assassination Attempt in Kandahar (September 5, 2002)
...series of public memorials for Massoud, a national hero who fought against Soviet occupation and Taliban rule and was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan's Panj... - Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq? (May 23, 2004)
...government, in cooperation with the governments of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and France, established an International Military Tribunal to bring to ju... - The Reason Why (April 21, 2003)
... the half-century of cold war by hotheads recommending that we atomize the Soviet Union and China before they atomize us. Courtesy of The New Yorker, we are r... - Opium Fuels Violence Against Afghan Aid Workers (October 3, 2003)
...east. A Moscow-backed government ruled Afghanistan for a decade before Soviet troops withdrew, leaving warlords to fight for power. The Taliban won cont... - Women Waging Peace (May 15, 2001)
... in monitoring elections and human rights throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. Last November, the European Parliament passed a hard-hitting resolution c... - Impossible Histories (July 1, 2002)
...ain and France. During the Cold War, as the United States vied with the Soviet Union for dominance, Islam quickly became a national-security concern in America... - In Afghanistan, US Shooting in the Dark (June 28, 2003)
...y commanders, most of whom are veterans of the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation of 1979–1989. Taliban military commander Jalaluddin Haqqani is... - US Campaign Behind the Turmoil in Kiev (November 26, 2004)
...regimes, it is certain to try to repeat the exercise elsewhere in the post-Soviet world. The places to watch are Moldova and the authoritarian countries... - Raising a Voice (February 8, 2003)
...rganisation, said, "unfortunately present-day Russia is different from the Soviet Union which stood shoulder to shoulder with Abdel-Nasser and the Arab people in... - Manifest Destiny Warmed Up? (August 14, 2003)
...is too. The price is affordable, he argues, and, in its containment of the Soviet Union and other policies, America has shown it can sustain a commitment over lon... - Pashtuns Losing Faith in Karzai, US (July 13, 2002)
...espected by the Tajiks for his exploits as a militia commander in the anti-Soviet resistance. But in another sense, officials said, Qadir was a high-risk... - Briefing Depicted Saudis as Enemies (August 6, 2002)
...Saudi Arabia played major roles in supporting the Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, pouring billions of dollars into procuring weapon... - A New Doctrine and a Scud Bust (December 12, 2002)
...a, Iran, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen. North Korea's modified version of the Soviet Scud missile, the Nodong, is believed to have provided the basis for Pakis... - An Anti-War Movement of One (September 12, 2002)
...itarily, ethnically, culturally, economically, or ecologically. Before the Soviet collapse, borders were considered sacrosanct, virtually immutable, the sin... - US Policy In Azerbaijan: A Backward Strategy From Freedom (February 11, 2004)
...e Heydar Aliyev, a former top KGB official and politburo member during the Soviet era, came to power in 1993. The elder Aliyev’s policies were calibrated to... - Selective Intelligence (May 12, 2003)
... to believe that they could be deceived about any critical question by the Soviet Union or other Communist states. History has shown this view to have been extrem... - Bunker Busters: Washington's Drive for New Nuclear Weapons (July 28, 2002)
...ith sufficient reasons to develop new weapons. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the new rapprochement between East and West, many policy analysts in t... - When Nation-Building Destroys (April 4, 2002)
...se unstable and ever-changing governments that Afghanistan had between the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 and the arrival of the Taliban in 1996: unelected cliqu... - Bush officials pressuring Pakistan to catch Osama bin Laden by election (July 8, 2004)
...ose ties to Pakistan, forged a decade earlier in collaboration against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But, by the time Clinton left office, the United... - America's World Role — Present at the Creation (June 27, 2002)
... rate, of half a new world, the free half, while an ally turned enemy, the Soviet Union, built the other half. He was in turn quoting a 13th-century Spanish king,... - Fragile Alliances in a Hostile Land (May 5, 2002)
...Afghan capital. Also on hand were some Northern Alliance soldiers with old Soviet jeeps to haul Diaz's team to Fahim's foothold at Bagram air base, some 40... - The Fighting Next Time (March 10, 2002)
...etect an unmistakable mood of vindication. Since the gradual demise of the Soviet Union, certain scholars of combat had been arguing that the great lumbering mili... - War on Iraq Begins (March 19, 2003)
...ave disputed that view, noting that in the case of the missile crisis, the Soviet missiles could have easily reached the United States, and the weapons clea... - Afghan Political Violence on the Rise (August 3, 2003)
...y are targeting mullahs and police officials." To Akram, who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the progression looks ominously familiar. "It i... - The Rogues of Academe (December 1, 2002)
...ator left in Europe, from his position as President of Belarus (the former Soviet Republic of Belorussia). Lukashenko is clearly up to the job: it has been... - American Apocalypse (December 22, 2003)
... World War (the Third being the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union). In addressing a group of college students, he declared, "This Fourth Wor... - Advertising Meets Activism (July 31, 2003)
...ace the Wylie Street wall, are executed in a Cabinet of Dr. Caligari-meets-Soviet constructivist style and feature gas masks, crows and skyscrapers. The sig... - Afghan Aftermath: The Future of Film in Afghanistan (February 1, 2004)
..., won a scholarship to study film at Moscow University in 1981, during the Soviet occupation of his country. On his return to Afghanistan in 1987 he worked... - Nation-Building Lite (July 27, 2002)
.... By that rule of thumb there hasn't been a state in Afghanistan since the Soviet Union invaded in 1979 and the war of resistance began. Because the warlords have... - Yemeni Judge on Dialogue With Al-Qa'ida Supporters, Change in 'Convictions' (December 18, 2004)
...areness that happened during the Cold War, specifically in the face of the Soviet Union when it occupied Afghanistan. Fifth, the wrong mobilization that happened... - Iraq: In All But Name, the War Is On (August 17, 2002)
...hnic Iranians rather than Arabs. Principal equipment is 2,200 tanks of Soviet-era vintage (including a few hundred T-72s) and 1,900 artillery pieces. Th... - An Uneasy Peace (April 29, 2002)
...in the pictureóa notorious warlord and rabid extremist who during the anti-Soviet war in the 1980s was a major recipient of US military aid funneled through... - The Privatization of War (December 10, 2003)
... and military skills. The US military is 60% the size of a decade ago, the Soviet collapse wrecked the colossal Red Army, the East German military melted aw... - Not a Dress Rehearsal (August 14, 2003)
...k together. Few expect Russia to cough up for the carnage unleashed by the Soviet Union, but it could supply survey maps and geologists to help Afghanistan exploi... - Bare-Faced Resistance (July 20, 2002)
... fingers. Her comfortable childhood came under siege in 1992, after the Soviet-backed regime fell and mujaheddin armies - armed by the west - battled for... - Saddam in the Crosshairs (November 21, 2001)
...rector William Casey that all terrorist groups were interconnected via the Soviet, the links between Saddam, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and just about ever... - The Tyranny of Copyright? (January 25, 2004)
...ety," he says. "But in the cultural sphere, big media wants to build a new Soviet empire where you need permission from the central party to do anything." H... - US Nuclear Plan Sees New Weapons and New Targets (March 10, 2002)
... During the cold war, the United States used nuclear weapons to deter a Soviet attack on Western Europe. But now, the Pentagon report says, the natio... - Crossing the Threshold (March 11, 2004)
...ic trials merely paraded the coerced guilt of the "accused," converted the Soviet Union’s justice system into an appalling masquerade. And it is this kind of two-... - The CIA's Secret Army (January 26, 2003)
...tary officers, unexpectedly found himself peering out the open window of a Soviet-made Mi-17 helicopter that day as it soared over the Anjuman Pass and into... - Somalian Link Seen to Al Qaeda (February 25, 2002)
...ve fought under Bin Laden's command in Afghanistan's guerrilla war against Soviet troops in the 1980s. Tariq, reportedly at Bin Laden's bidding, then led a... - Iraq Said to Plan Tangling the U.S. in Street Fighting (August 25, 2002)
...en returned. Iraq's best aircraft are the French-made Mirage F-1's and Soviet-made MIG-25's. According to American intelligence, the Iraqi Air Force is... - The Empire Backfires (March 29, 2004)
...worked on the Manhattan Project. China got help from Russia until the Sino-Soviet split put an end to it. Pakistan got secret help from China in the early 1... - Secure Often Means Secret (May 16, 2002)
... embraced secrecy during crises. After World War II, concerns about the Soviet bloc and its military buildup led the U.S. government to classify enormous... - Iranian Security Leader Criticizes Bush (July 23, 2002)
... had to be assessed. America, particularly after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, has always claimed that it is the world leader and the world gendarme [pr... - Al Qaeda May Foment Unrest in Iraq Among Kurds (July 11, 2002)
...apons in the possession of the Iraqis derived during the cold war from the Soviet Union are now being disseminated to terrorists. I don't see how we can ignore th... - The Deal (March 1, 2004)
...en, who ran the C.I.A.’s operations in Afghanistan during the war with the Soviet Union, recounted, “I’ve been all through there. The Pashtun population in that b... - Afghanistan's Toughest Battle Lies Ahead (December 31, 2002)
... say they fear U.S. troops will become a long-term occupying army like the Soviet forces that invaded more than 20 years ago and remained for a decade. T... - The Saudi Fifth Column On Our Nation's Campuses (April 5, 2004)
...it has been observed, makes the one billion dollars per annum spent by the Soviet Union during the Cold War for Communist propaganda pale by comparison. [4] The S... - Losing the Peace? (May 13, 2002)
...international donors, the black SUVs preferred by military commanders, the Soviet-era buses crammed with commuters, the yellow-and-white Toyota Corollas tha... - Lockdown on Sea Island: Scenes from the G8 Summit (June 8, 2004)
...late. And certainly there seems to be something a little skewed about this Soviet-style display of hardware in a community where nobody bothers to lock thei... - Rising Muslim Power in Africa Causes Unrest in Nigeria and Elsewhere (November 1, 2001)
... said, would offer a prayer, kiss grains of sand and toss them to stop the Soviet tanks. "I'm prepared to go and fight America," said Aminu Barde, 23. ... - Turn East From Mecca (December 1, 2002)
...but did our best to hold the line. We did not imagine that we could defeat Soviet communism starting in Moscow. Likewise, Islamic extremism cannot be engage... - How We Helped Create Saddam (September 23, 2002)
... wish for the demise of a former ally. After all, before the cold war, the Soviet Union was Americaís partner against Hitler in World War II. In the real world, a... - Outcry of the Student Reform Movement (February 23, 2004)
...ctive positions. We saw the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, but equally so, we saw the rise of genocide in the former Yugoslavia, in... - Preemptive Strike (July 27, 2003)
...era equivalent to the late 1940s, when the United States first engaged the Soviet Union in the Cold War. At the time George W. Bush was elected, he noted, few wou... - Secretary Rumsfeld on Terrorism, Iraq, NATO Relation (February 28, 2004)
...itary presence in Europe, demanding the withdrawal of US missiles, but not Soviet ones! At more or less the same time there were disputes over the oil an... - Serving Two Flags (February 28, 2004)
...on the matter. After a two hour debriefing, Koch was told that it was only Soviet military intelligence penetration that interested the Bureau. The follow-o... - The Fifty-First State (September 18, 2002)
...eneration ago. Europeans thought Ronald Reagan was a brute for calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire." According to this view, they are just as wrong-headed to... - GIs Battle 'Ghosts' in Afghanistan (May 16, 2002)
...mountains of Afghanistan. During their long, futile war here in the 1980s, Soviet soldiers referred to their Afghan adversaries as dukhi, the Russian word f... - Sharon, Likud Party Nurtured Rise of Hamas (June 4, 2002)
... example, in January 1990, Arafat deputy Abu Iyad publicly complained that Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel was undermining the peace process because new... - Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq In Pursuit Of A Neocon Utopia (September 24, 2004)
...” It would be the largest state liquidation sale since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But Bremer’s economic engineering had only just begun. In September, t... - An Analysis of Opposition Movements (February 18, 2003)
...the United States was not belligerent yet, though the US was giving aid to Soviet Union and Britain to fight against Nazi Germany. So it's quite remarkable in tha... - The US Bomb That Nearly Killed Karzai (March 27, 2002)
...al Taliban soldiers on the ground without giving them time to launch their Soviet-era surface-to-air missiles. The casualty numbers coming in over the ra... - The First Casualty (June 19, 2003)
...his in 1976, criticizing and intimidating the agency over its estimates of Soviet military strength, and again in 1998, arguing for the necessity of missile... - The Need for a New Wilsonianism (September 2, 2002)
...ey feel vindicated in their assertion of U.S. power by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and of the Taliban a decade later, as well as by the relative ease... - The New Pentagon Papers (March 10, 2004)
...r lying to the Congress and for utterly miscalculating the strength of the Soviet Union in a politically driven report to the CIA. Neoconservatives march as o... - Will the 2004 Election Be Called Off? Why Three Out of Four Experts Predict a Terrorist Attack by November (April 6, 2004)
... Given the bizarre mind-melding between the government and media and the Soviet-style propagandizing that's been taking place, one has to wonder: Is there... - Two Worlds Paired by War (December 31, 2001)
...mark of martyrs, snapping in the wind. In others, with the rusted hulks of Soviet tanks or bomb craters ringed with sparkling bits of glass. Here and the... - Which War: A One-Shot Publication of Social Reconnaissance (March 1, 2004)
...estern states, anxious to partition the Balkans after the implosion of the Soviet bloc, is lacking. This clear road arrives quickly, together with the suppl... - The Media and War with Iraq (November 17, 2002)
...ery mountain upon which you are now sitting, and that battle destroyed the Soviet Union." Give or take some exaggeration, I wouldn't want to object to that. There... - America's Empire of Bases (January 15, 2004)
...rties into places like Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. The first post-Soviet-era Russian airbase in Kyrgyzstan has just been completed forty miles from... - The Currency War (January 26, 2003)
...s believe it is far more likely Al Qaeda might acquire an unsecured former Soviet Union Weapon(s) of Mass Destruction, or potentially from sympathizers within a d... - The Mess in Afghanistan (February 12, 2004)
...rs, who have been at war with one another ever since 1989, when the former Soviet Union withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. He saw no need to fly in dozens of h... - What I Heard about Iraq (February 3, 2005)
...ion Iron Hammer, its name taken from Eisenhammer, the Nazi plan to destroy Soviet generating plants. I heard that air force regulations require that any... - Where the Enemy Is Everywhere and Nowhere (July 20, 2003)
...ussians built in another time. The Americans now run it. There, in a dingy Soviet-style concrete block where no reporter is allowed inside, the men will be... - The Gray Zone (May 24, 2004)
...ng the Navy’s submarine penetration of underwater cables used by the Soviet high command and construction of the Air Force’s stealth bomber. All... - True Lies (August 3, 2003)
...ources of funds for the mujahideen [Islamic fundamentalists who fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan]; Saudi nationals have always constituted a disp... - The Degeneration of the Liberals (January 18, 2003)
...become part of the permanent shared legacy of civilization (the German and Soviet totalitarian innovations haven't disappeared: they are latent, always avai... - To Invade or Not to Invade? (November 18, 2002)
...r leaders. And what we knew, or what we now know about the thinking of the Soviet leaders, which is that Saddam believes that nuclear weapons will not simpl... - Could Sept. 11 Have Been Prevented? (August 4, 2002)
...hmed Shah Massoud, a legendary guerrilla leader who had fought against the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan in the 1980s, were still resisting Taliban rule. C... - Beyond Fallujah: A Year With The Iraqi Resistance (June 1, 2004)
...h of supplies, mostly old artillery shells. Iraq is a virtual Wal-Mart for Soviet munitions and explosives. If resistance fighters run out of Strelas they c... - The State of Security and Warfare of Demons (April 1, 2003)
...the civil services more or less intact (374). When Stalin inaugurated the Soviet constitution in 1936, he declared it ‘provisional’ (394-95). The constitut...
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