Afghan Decision Expected in Matter of Weeks
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is getting the ground-level perspective on Afghanistan, and soon will address the strategy and resources needed ...
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Predator passes 600,000 flight hours
CREECH AIR FORCE BASE: Airmen of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing here surpassed the 600,000 flight hour mark in the ...
First M-ATVs Deploy to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: With unprecedented speed, the first of thousands of mine-resistant, ambush-protected all-terrain vehicles known as M-ATVs -- are being deployed ...
McChrystal: Conventional Strategy Won’t Win in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON: The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan ardently believes that conventional military thinking and actions won’t win the counterinsurgency ...
First Modernized G.222 Aircraft Delivered to Afghanistan
CAPODICHINO (NAPLES), Italy: Alenia North America, a subsidiary of Alenia Aeronautica and part of the Finmeccanica Group, delivered the first ...
MOD Announces Upgrades for RAF Chinooks in Afghanistan
RAF Chinook helicopters operating in Afghanistan will receive a £408m upgrade to deliver more powerful engines and more advanced, digitised ...
Petraeus Cites Need for Critical Warfighting Specialties
WASHINGTON: The U.S. military needs more people trained in specialties critical to the fight against global extremism, the chief of ...
More Troops and New Strategy for Afghanistan Will Be Hard to Come By
The dire situation in Afghanistan, highlighted by the call for more troops by NATO's top commander there, is forcing the ...
Army mindset needs changing in order to help security forces
FORT BENNING, Ga.: A cookie-cutter approach to helping Afghan forces take back control of their country is not what the ...
Royal Navy Sea Kings ‘Bag’ Intelligence over Helmand
The Royal Navy's unique airborne surveillance and control helicopters, known as 'Baggers', have recently deployed to Helmand for the first ...
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