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• Dubai aims to top its own world's tallest tower
As part of government-run conglomerate Dubai World, Nakheel has played a major role in creating modern-day Dubai, a city that has blossomed from a tiny Persian Gulf fishing and pearling village into a major business and tourism hub in a matter of ...
• Nation-building may eclipse standard warfare
From Panama in 1989 to Haiti to the 1991 Persian Gulf War to Iraq in 2003, Caldwell said he has seen the Army "confronted with having to conduct stability operations woefully unprepared." In 1989, for example, Caldwell was the chief of a military ...
• Biden speaks at son's deployment
They were on work ups for an up coming cruise to the Persian Gulf when that hellish day broke out. Of course they were told to stay out and patrol the west coast of the US instead of returning to port. He completed three cruises on the Stennis and ...
• Warren Buffet: Bio of a billionaire
... the golf course, where he read and watched business news in the living room seated next to an enormous stone fireplace.  He barely noticed the view of pine-covered Baldy, the mountain outside his window, or the bank of blossoms like a Persian palace ...
• Iran empowers hard-line Guards in Gulf
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran announced Tuesday that it has put the elite Revolutionary Guards in charge of defending the country's territorial Persian Gulf waters in what appeared to be a hardening of its stance in the vital oil route. U.S. commanders in the ...