Post Tagged with: "United States Military"
Soldiers train with Indian Army in Yudh Abhyas 2010
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska: Basic skill-level training for the U.S. Army can be redundant and uneventful, but providing the training to soldiers from a foreign nations’ army offers challenges, exceptional experiences and spice to the regular activity. Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska were given that opportunity Nov. 1 while teaming with the Indian Army during [...]
US takes up Pakistan military wish-list
Washington: The United States said Tuesday it was in talks with Pakistan about new military assistance as part of a partnership against Islamic extremism, in a step sure to trigger unease in India. The United States and Pakistan on Wednesday open their latest “strategic dialogue,” an initiative by President Barack Obama’s administration to show Pakistan’s [...]
US-UK Defense Treaty Takes Important Step Towards Ratification
The US-UK defence treaty has taken a key step towards ratification, following its approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty, which would improve the support to our Armed Forces by reducing the bureaucracy in defence trade relations, was signed three years ago, but the United States has yet to ratify [...]
British forces hand over flashpoint Afghan district to US
London: British troops transferred responsibility for security in the Sangin district of southern Afghanistan to US forces Monday, leaving an area where Britain suffered its worst losses since the invasion. The military insisted that the handover was not an admission of defeat after four years of fighting with Taliban insurgents following the British arrival in [...]
US nuclear guidelines ‘significant policy shift’: think tank
The new US nuclear weapons guidelines are a significant policy shift that show President Barack Obama is making good on his commitment to reduce atomic weapons, a leading defence think tank said Tuesday. “I welcome the release of the Nuclear Posture Review and its core message: that the United States is taking steps to reduce [...]
Nuclear Review Takes Comprehensive Look at Strategy
WASHINGTON: The Nuclear Posture Review, released today, is the first overarching look at U.S. nuclear strategy since the end of the Cold War, a senior defense official briefing reporters on background said yesterday. The review builds on President Barack Obama’s promise to take concrete steps toward the goal of achieving the safety and security of [...]
Russia worried by US missile defense plan
Moscow: Russia has serious questions over the aims of fresh US missile defence plans for Europe, the foreign ministry said Friday, in Moscow’s strongest expression of concern yet over the new initiative. “We still have serious questions regarding the true purpose of the US missile system,” a ministry spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, told reporters in televised [...]
Indo-US Air Exercise ‘Cope India-09’ gets underway at Agra
Exercise ‘Cope India-09’, a five-day joint air exercise between Indian Air Force (IAF) and United States Air Force (USAF) got underway today at Air Force Station, Agra – a major transport airbase and one of the largest airbase in Southeast Asia. The exercise will give impetus to the existing Indo-US defence cooperation that has already [...]
China, Russia tarred with US intel listing
Washington: The United States fingered emerging superpower China and resurgent Russia as its main challengers on Tuesday in new intelligence guidelines that highlighted the rising scourge of cyber-war. “A number of nation-states have the ability to challenge US interests in traditional and emerging ways,” said the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) document. “China shares many [...]


