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Professor John Tierney reflects on the meaning of D-Day after sixty years.

The article was written for the 62nd annual meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences for America, June 4-5, 2004, at Northeastern University in Boston.

Professor Walter Jajko discusses the consequences and meaning of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. He gave these remarks, published by the Polish Academy of Sciences’ quarterly journal, Dialogue and Univeralism, at the pre-screening of a CNN documentary on the uprising at IWP on June 3, 2004.

The new foreign minister of El Salvador hosted an IWP professor as his personal guest at the June 1 inauguration of President Elias Antonio Saca.

A professor who voted against George W. Bush says he admires the tough decisions this wartime president has made and reconsiders his own earlier opinions. This column appeared in the Houston Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times.

There is no question that al-Qaeda can be beaten, and victory is possible even against the larger militant Moslem international. History can­not indicate how long this fight will be, but it does afford many examples of how to win.

A PBS documentary on cyberwar aired on May 6, 2004.

A retired general and noted military strategist argues that the United States should capitalize on the friendship of the East European states who want a continuing American presence in Europe, and to counter an increasingly anti-US France.

IWP is offering five courses for the summer 2004 term.

American counterterrorism officials could not detect the al Qaeda terrorist plans because thirty years of restrictive legislation, litigation and executive action ensured that the FBI and intelligence community could not collect and share vital information that would have allowed analysts to 'connect the dots.'