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 By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
Source; US Dept of Defense
SEOUL, South Korea, March 11, 2010 – Military exercises under way are refining command and control capabilities that will be critical for the U.S. and South Korean militaries to defend against [...]
 They flew non-combat missions, but 38 were killed in service
Associated Press
updated 55 minutes ago
Source: MSNBC
WASHINGTON – A long-overlooked group of women who flew aircraft during World War II were awarded the Congressional Gold Medalon Wednesday.
Known as Women Airforce Service Pilots, [...]
 Tue Mar 9, 2010 7:44pm GMT
By Phil Stewart
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan, March 9 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates told troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday they would soon be part of a “decisive phase” in the [...]
Target was house in North Waziristan, officials say
NBC News and news services
updated 57 minutes ago
Source: MSNBC
MIR ALI, Pakistan – A U.S. drone fired two to three missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, killing at [...]
 February 10, 2010
Dr. Robin McFee
Source: Family Security Matters
Whoever said life happens when you aren’t paying attention was absolutely correct. Consider the rise of Russia. While the U.S. is mired in numerous domestic and global challenges, our friends in Moscow, most [...]
Strategic partnership at risk despite Barack Obama’s attempts to stop Congress resolution.
Robert Tait in Istanbul and Ewen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Friday 5 March 2010 21.34 GMT
Turkey has threatened to downgrade its strategic relationship with the US amid nationalist anger over [...]
By Nile Gardiner
Last updated: March 2nd, 2010
Source: Telegraph
The transcript of Hillary Clinton’s press conference in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Kristina Kirchner last night, has just been released by the State Department, and it is a real eye-opener. Her remarks [...]
 28/02/2010
Source; RIA Novosti
Poland will deploy first U.S. Patriot missiles on its soil beginning in early April, a spokesman for the Polish Defense Ministry said.
“A first group of U.S. troops will be also dispatched along with the [Patriot] missiles at the [...]
MIAMI
Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:27pm EST
MIAMI (Reuters) – Authorities indicted six associates of Colombia’s Cali drug cartel on Thursday on charges they failed to disclose the assets of two jailed kingpins as set out in a sentencing agreement.
The Department of [...]
23/02/2010
Source: RIA Novosti
The number of U.S. service personnel killed in Afghanistan since military operations began in 2001 has reached 1,000, the icasualties.org web site reported on Tuesday.
The independent site tracks losses suffered by international military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. [...]
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McChrystal calls incident a ‘tragic loss of innocent lives’ in translated address to Afghan people
VOA [...]
21 February 2010
Paula Wolfson | Washington
Source: VOA News
The U.S. general who oversees the war in Afghanistan says the fight for the southern town of Marjah is just the first operation in a long campaign.
Petraeus says the battle [...]
February 20, 2010 — Updated 1551 GMT (2351 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Squads of 10-14 militants engage U.S. and Afghan forces in firefights
U.S. Marines set up forward base to send signal to local civilians
NATO troops kill unarmed civilian mistaken for militant
Troops trying to [...]
This nation is face-to-face with disarmament by entitlement.
By Robert S. Dudney
Editor in Chief
Source: Air Force – Magazine.com
On the morning of Jan. 19, the American national debt stood at $12,276,477,277,649.25, according to the US Treasury. Call it $12 trillion, close to [...]
Say goodbye to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Feb 18, 2010 20:25:49 EST
Effective Sept. 1, the war in Iraq will acquire a new official moniker: “Operation New Dawn.”
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the move Wednesday in a memo to [...]
 By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
Source: US Dept of Defense
ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 15, 2010 – Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III observed the opening of the heart of one of the most modern shipbuilding plants in the world here [...]
Published 13 February, 2010, 14:20
Edited 15 February, 2010, 04:4
Source: Russia Today
NATO troops led by the US have launched a major offensive in southern Afghanistan. This is the largest military assault since the Taliban was toppled in the 2001 invasion.
More than [...]
 A debate on the pros and cons of commercializing the cosmos; valuing asteroids at $20 trillion each. Taylor Dinerman makes a case against private space.
FEBRUARY 13, 2010
Source: The Wall Street Journal
By TAYLOR DINERMAN
President Barack Obama’s proposed plan for NASA bets [...]
 TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has effectively dropped a request for U.S. submarines to help shore up the balance of power with political rival China, a military source said on Tuesday, dissolving what could be a new rift in tense Sino-U.S. [...]
By ANDREW CHUTER, LONDON
Published: 5 Feb 2010 12:46
BAE Systems has reached settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice over an investigation into its activities in Saudi Arabia and Britain’s Serious Fraud Office over a corruption inquiry into the sale of [...]
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