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SKorea could swiftly hit NKorea nuke bases: general
Seoul: South Korea could mount swift and precise attacks on North Korea’s nuclear bases should war break out on the peninsula, Seoul’s incoming top military officer said Thursday. General Lee Sang-Eui, named as next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Seoul had a list of major targets its forces would strike first should [...]
Leaked Report Urges More Troops for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: A report from the new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says there is an urgent need for more foreign troops and civilians, more Afghan forces and a new strategic approach to reverse Taliban gains. The frank and mostly gloomy assessment by U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal is still officially secret, but the Washington [...]
New Zealand Special Forces Return to Afghanistan
New Zealand has sent its elite SAS combat force to rejoin the war in Afghanistan. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key will discuss the war and his country’s deployment when he meets United Nations and NATO leaders in New York this week. The deployment of elite New Zealand troops to Afghanistan is in response to [...]
NATO struggles to find troops for Afghanistan
Brussels: NATO nations, wracked by budget shortages and engaged in an unpopular war with mounting casualties, will struggle to satisfy the demands of the top commander in Afghanistan for more troops. In a 66-page assessment of the fight against Taliban-led insurgents, General Stanley McChrystal urges NATO and its partners to boost their military presence and [...]
Afghanistan could be lost within a year: US commander
Washington: The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan has warned President Barack Obama in a confidential report that the war against the Taliban could be lost within a year without more troops. In a blunt assessment of the eight-year conflict obtained by The Washington Post and published Monday, General Stanley McChrystal said a new [...]
Costs of War: Dollar Deals
The report on the global arms bazaar is produced every year by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a division of the Library of Congress, and is the most comprehensive publicly available collection of data on the topic. The explosive growth of US arms sales is especially notable beside the general decline in arms sales last [...]
Pakistan Tops List of Challenges, Gates Says
WASHINGTON: Of all the challenges and potential problems the United States faces, Pakistan tops Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ priority list, he said yesterday. “[Pakistan faces] a lot of problems right now,” he said during an interview on the “Charlie Rose Show” on PBS. “I think … they have always thought of India as the [...]
Helmet Sensors Providing Data That May Decrease Brain Injury
FORT BELVOIR, Va: For the past year, almost 7,000 sensors mounted on helmets in Iraq and Afghanistan have been collecting data on blast trauma from improvised explosive devices. The sensors were fielded by the Program Executive Office Soldier so that the Army could gather critical information needed to characterize exposures to impact trauma and blast [...]
Enduring through two wars while planning for future
Balance is the goal for the Department of Defense as its officials work to develop a strategy relevant to fighting two wars and to providing for future military needs, said the second highest ranking military officer in the U.S. armed forces. “We need to be able to balance the realities of the war we are [...]
