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Defense Capability Plan 2009-Update
Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, today launched the electronic update of the 2009 Public Defence Capability...
Wars force US military to review ban on women in combat
WASHINGTON: US commanders are taking a second look at policies that bar women from ground combat, as the wars in...
Indian military growth threatens Regional stability: Pakistan
New Delhi: Pakistan warned Thursday that India's huge military modernization programme posed a serious threat to stability in a "nuclearized"...
Costs of War: Renting Victory
The decision last week by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates to approve $150 million in military aid to Yemen is...
Gates Voices Concern Over NATO Shortfalls
WASHINGTON: After underfunding NATO for more than a decade, the Western security bloc now faces a budget crisis by an...
Russia threatens to react to NATO expansion
MOSCOW: Russia will have to respond as it is concerned by NATO's active eastward expansion and the U.S. plans to...
Afghan campaign will be tough, Says Petraeus
WASHINGTON: With U.S. forces entering the second week of a 12- to 18-month campaign in Afghanistan, the general in charge...
Khartoum, Darfur rebels sign ceasefire accord
DOHA: Sudan and Darfur's main rebel group signed a ceasefire agreement and a framework accord for a final peace deal...
Biden: Better Conventional Arms Will Allow Nuclear Drawdown
WASHINGTON: Plans to strengthen conventional U.S. military equipment and warheads will allow the United States to draw down its nuclear...
Russia to produce most arms domestically
Russia's Army will mostly use domestically-built arms, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin told Ekho Moskvy radio on Saturday. "The...
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