Unlike the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, India and Pakistan do not have the benefit of a vast ocean between them,

The Role of the United States in World Affairs.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

They're going public, ... They're saying, 'We're having this war against the United States.'

We forget that at the height of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were spending $500 billion on their nuclear arsenals,

The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other war of its history, including the Second World War. The battle front stretched from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, and included also the seven seas.