We're galloping toward Clive Cussler territory here — and raising some unsettling echoes of a bring-it-on mind-set that, while understandable in a combat soldier, invites disaster when it percolates up to the Oval Office.
The Chinese army mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers in a disaster effort once again led personally by Wen.
Fatigued athletes and scholars usually harm only their own prospects, but pilots, drivers and soldiers may precipitate disasters.
The disaster soldiered on for artist Phillip Stearns, too, when he designed A Chandelier for One of Many Possible Ends, a room-sized chandelier made from Geiger counters and flickering LEDs.
He told them bluntly that Russia "had to have a smaller army," one that was better equipped and "technically perfect" to protect soldiers and sailors from disaster and defend national interests.
The attack was poorly planned and ended in disaster; 4,963 soldiers were killed, wounded or captured.
Competence: From combat to disaster relief, soldiers analyze and react to diverse situations, applying quick problem solving techniques involving creativity.
Those deployments included more peacekeeping missions and help with natural disasters which soldiers said were not what they had signed up for.
Although Gibson said that the ad wasn't produced with a particular demographic in mind, a comparison with the Cadillac ad reveals a great deal: instead of a family of strivers zooming through a sprawling house, we see dads and daughters bonding over burgers; a modest family birthday party; folks on cots, presumably after a natural disaster; a soldier's homecoming.
If Turkey gets involved, with 700,000 soldiers, that would be a disaster for all: Kurds, Iraqis, Lebanese as well as Syrians.
