Podhoretz was appalled by the propensity of some of his intellectual colleagues during the Vietnam War years to equate the U.S. to Nazi Germany, and during the Cold War to morally equate the U.S. with the Soviet Union.
Yet, to my knowledge, today we have no similar safeguards in place to what the DOD had during the Cold War years to check on the influence of foreign powers on American institutions.
During the Cold War years, he consistently lent his great talents, energy and resources to the intellectual, moral and strategic fight against totalitarian communism.
In 1759, in the battle of Quiberon Bay during the Seven Years War, the British fleet commanded by Admiral Hawke destroyed the French invasion fleet under Admiral Conflans.
During the Cold War years, this feature of "surrogate" broadcasting (affording access to accurate news and other information to populations denied it by their own, communist-controlled media) was assured by an independent Board for International Broadcasting.
Ever since their homes were destroyed during the war six years ago, more than 500 Roma (Gypsies) have been living in makeshift camps set up by the UN next to a disused - but contaminated - lead smelter in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo.
The second pavilion, 'The Calling', reflecting Florence's underlying belief in her call to God's service, recreates the climax of Nightingale's life: her experiences during the Crimean War in the years 1854 to 1856, when she led a Government-sponsored party of nurses to the military hospitals at Scutari on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, and then to the Crimea itself, and in so doing became a national heroine.
The modern form is said to have been introduced to Britain by soldiers who had drunk it in Holland during the Eighty Years' War (hence the expression "Dutch Courage").
And yet during the period of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) Elizabeth was one of the foremost power brokers for the Protestant cause in Europe.
Gide built on a sea-change in attitudes during the inter-war years that called for fully authentic versions of the plays, liberating Shakespeare from the romanticists and classicists alike.
According to Prof Tilli Tansey, a medical historian at Queen Mary University of London, who has studied the unit, it became an oddly popular form of package holiday during the post-war years.
Within two years after the war ended, the Air Force was granted independence from the Army, and then went on to become first among equals in Pentagon councils during the early years of the Cold War.
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If the Titanic is a vehicle for working out our cultural anxieties, the 1953 film makes it clear that one of those, during the first years of the Cold War, was the question of who the good guys were.
But the rugged IIIf remained the photojournalist's camera of choice during the turbulent post-war years until it was replaced in 1957 by the ultimate range-finder, the Leica IIIg.
The United States recognised Angola only in 1993, after cold-shouldering its Russian-backed government for the previous 20 years during the Cold War.
Marshall, the greatest soldier-statesman since George Washington, was wrong to oppose arms shipments to Great Britain in 1940, and wrong to argue for a cross-channel invasion during the early years of World War II, before the U.S. was ready.
In the final analysis, the country is very fortunate to have had Donald Rumsfeld serving in office during the opening years of this tumultuous War for the Free World.
That also means the size of the federal government today is nearly 20% bigger than it was during the 60 years after World War II, when America prospered as the richest nation in world history, with resulting, unprecedented, global military dominance.
During the past five years of war, Congo's economy has collapsed, and the recording industry with it.
Indeed, Vietnam's culinary renaissance is helping to revive traditions lost during the years of war, famine and repression.
In 1424, the English defeated the Scots and French at the Battle of Verneuil during the Hundred Years' War.
It was my destiny to witness over many events in our region during the years of war and peace.
"I light candles in church when I say a prayer, " said Alice Ajak, a mother, who lost two children during the long years of war.
Obama campaigned and was elected on a platform of change, one that would end the abuses and torture so prevalent during the early years of the so-called war on terror.
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His unprecedented four-year popularity has been sustained by an incredible economic growth which has been at eight percent each year, mostly due to increases in prices of Argentinean commodities in the world market, a situation no different than the one Juan Domingo PerC3n experienced during the post World War II years.
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In the space of 4 years during World War II, we borrowed the equivalent of three to five times the amount we'd need to borrow to save Social Security over a 20-year period.
"Governments rarely take by elections off opposition parties - I think the last time it happened was 30 years ago during the Falklands War, so this was not an unexpected result, " he said.
During the twenty-five years after the Second World War, that gap closed considerably.
During the waning years of World War II, Harry Truman seized 28 companies, such as railroads and meat packers, in the name of fueling the war machine.
This is political territory unknown for a generation or two, after all the last coalition that Britain had was during the dark days on the World War II, over 60 years ago.
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