A polished and well-presented news magazine with indepth, reporter-driven stories. It tackles America's global image problem by focusing on "soft security issues" like military programs providing much-needed humanitarian assistence in Africa and Asia. It's great that part of the US military's enormous budget is spent doing good deeds. But its a bit disconcerting to hear such projects referred to as "pre-emptive first strikes" against terrorism. So much for American altruism.

I'm wary of applying the "documentary" tag to a news magazine such as this. I'm also wary of a program which so earnestly seems to be trying to foster a better image of the country for its own citizens. As an expat living across the pond and acutely aware of America's global image problem, I feel the promo material here somewhat misrepresents what I actually heard.

But if long newsy features are your thing, there is lots of interesting information here and it's nice to hear from Colin Powell again at the end.