canada and the us became allies in 1988.
when did canada and the us become allies?
1988
us army special forces (sf) are, along with psychological operations detachments and rangers, the oldest of the post-world war ii army units in the current united states special operations command (ussocom). their original mission was to train and lead unconventional warfare (uw) forces, or a guerilla force in an occupied nation. 10th special forces group was the first deployed unit, intended to operate uw forces behind enemy lines in the event of a warsaw pact invasion of western europe. as the us become involved in southeast asia, it was realized that specialists trained to lead guerillas also could help defend against hostile guerillas, so sf acquired the additional mission of foreign internal defense (fid), working with host nation (hn) forces in a spectrum of counterguerilla activities from indirect support to combat command.
clandestine humint and covert action
rorty furthers his distinction between public and private by classifying books into those "which help us become autonomous" and those "which help us become less cruel", and roughly dividing the latter group into "books which help us see the effects of social practices and institutions on others" and "those which help us see the effects of our private idiosyncrasies on others." he dismisses the moral-aesthetic contrast, instead proposing the separation of books which offer relaxation from books which supply novel stimuli to action. metaphysicians, having little doubt about their final vocabularies, confuse private projects with the pleasure of relaxation, and hence dismiss, as not serious or merely aesthetic, not only those writers with no relevance to liberal hope, like nietzsche and derrida, but also those warning against the potential for cruelty inherent in the quest for autonomy, among which rorty places nabokov and orwell, since "both of them dramatize the tension between private irony and liberal hope."
contingency, irony, and solidarity