In February 2006, an army of rapists descended on Duru, a farming community of 5,000 in eastern Congo. They called themselves, without a trace of irony, the “Lord’s Resistance Army.”
Archived posts from category ‘Smart Power’
09.11.10
The Diplomat: How China Mimics U.S. Soft Power
Every day for a week in early September, U.S. Army soldiers traveled the same 10-mile route between Kinshasa’s dilapidated Grand Hotel and the hilltop Congolese military training base overlooking the Democratic Republic of Congo capital. The Americans probably didn’t realize it, but the wide, smooth, freshly-paved avenue they used, so incongruous in a city of potholed and unpaved roads, had recently been constructed by a growing rival — China.
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16.09.09
Voice of America: Implementing “Smart Power” in Afghanistan Poses Challenge for U.S.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/3JkysxAYCqM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] by DAVID AXE and JASON REICH Analysts and policy makers call it “smart power” — a seamless blend of investment, good deeds and military force that is intended to win friends while targeting enemies in war. In 2007, the U.S. Defense Department officially embraced this philosophy. But on the [...]
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