The reason is that a military DEFEAT of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the BRITISH EMPIRE. This would not be of any BENEFIT to Germany.

There was no PLACE at all for me in my FATHER's MILITARY WORLD.

I have to say, as a young WOMAN of COLOR, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love AFFAIR; I can be a REVOLUTIONARY.

In the recent YEARS there have been criticisms levelled against JAPAN suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby PLAY a more ACTIVE role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

There is some sign that NORTH Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing SUCCESSFUL negotiation to have a MILITARY talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for SEVEN years.

You feel sometimes when you HEAR analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the SURVIVAL of the regime, because deep down it's not a LEGITIMATE regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

There are a lot of things that have to be CONSIDERED in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm CONFIDENT that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he MAKES the DECISION.

It is not in the INTEREST of the GERMAN people or in the interest of WORLD peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military STRUGGLE for power between the EAST and the West.

I KNEW early I wanted to follow my FATHER into the military. He did a full 30-year career and RETIRED as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell UNIVERSITY.

And the program was DEVELOPED in large PART by BEHAVIORAL scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they POSSIBLY can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

The military is trying very hard right now to PUT a BETTER face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the EXTREME versions of abuse that we have READ about.

I have visited classrooms near military bases to LEARN more about what schools were doing to support their military kids. I met with teachers OVERSEAS to learn about the particular needs they face thousands of miles from AMERICA. And I listened to my own GRANDDAUGHTER, who dealt with her father's yearlong deployment to Iraq.

The MILITARY can BUY our diplomats some TIME.

I'm careful about speaking about this, but I believe it is only natural to accept the MANDATORY MILITARY duty, and I will GO when I RECEIVE a DRAFT notice, no matter when that is.

A young MAN who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not LIKELY to have what it takes to make a LIVING. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core UNEMPLOYED.