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Total number of U.S. military deaths since 2003 and names of the U.S. troops killed recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon:
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washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns:
In the beginning, the Obama administration directed a spotlight toward its careful, thoughtful decision-making process on Afghanistan. National security meetings were announced, photographed and highlighted in background briefings to the media. President Obama would apply the methods of the academy to the art of war -- the (Read More)
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The Pentagon is launching an urgent review of whether military procedures hinder the identification of service members who pose a threat to their fellow troops.
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The Pentagon is launching an urgent review of whether military procedures hinder the identification of service members who pose a threat to their fellow troops.
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SWJ Blog:
The massacre at Fort Hood is a reminder that the War on Terror is not fought just in south Afghanistan or Mosul. It is a global war also fought in an office building inside a military base in Texas. Many counter-terror analysts focus on the Pakistan connection and preventing The Big One that could top 9/11. But the real pro (Read More)
SWJ Blog:
Counterinsurgency: The Challenge for NATO Strategy and Operations (250 pages - pdf). Produced by the NATO Defense College and edited by Dr. Christopher Schnaubelt, this document includes an introduction and 11 chapters covering NATO’s COIN challenges and implications, lessons from Afghanistan, hybrid adversaries, balancing (Read More)
Washington Post:
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced Thursday a 45-day review into whether "lapses" or gaps in military procedures may prompt a failure to identify servicemembers who pose a threat, a bid to prevent future incidents such as the mass killings at Fort Hood this month. (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Pentagon Procurement:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. defense spending in coming years must rise roughly 6 percent on average from the record sum sought by President Barack Obama this year just to meet current plans, Congress's budget office said Wednesday.
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Wired: Danger Room:
Caption contest! Here’s California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visiting the gym at Camp Victory, Iraq. Tell us what’s really going on…
[PHOTO: U.S. Department of Defense]
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SWJ Blog:
Mr. Obama’s Task - New York Times editorial.There is no doubt that the prospects for success in Afghanistan are so bleak right now because former President George W. Bush failed for seven long years to invest the necessary troops, resources or attention to the war. But it is now President Obama’s war, and the American peopl (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - In Congress:
The Senate on Tuesday rejected an attempt to bar using funds from a defense spending bill to build or modify prisons in the United States to hold detainees from Guantanamo Bay, a move that suggested congressional Democrats may be lining up behind President Obama's vision for closing the military ...
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Defense Tech:
Reports have recently made it into the public domain that back in May of 2007 President George W. Bush authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to launch a sophisticated cyber attack on the cellular phones and computers of insurgents in Iraq. This cyber attack created the ability for U.S. forces to plant false informat (Read More)
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In a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheik Mohammed kicked his military attorney off the defense team, forced a civilian lawyer to sit at the back of the courtroom and reluctantly accepted the presence of another advisory civilian counsel to help him defend himself.
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SWJ Blog:
Mr. President, Take Your Time on Afghanistan - Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers.President Barack Obama has yet to decide where we're going and what we're doing in Afghanistan, but if the flood of leaks this week is any indicator, he at least has decided what he isn't going to do. He isn't going to be rushed into mak (Read More)
SWJ Blog:
An Evening of Counterinsurgency at the Pritzker Military LibraryHearts and minds? Overrated. If you want to run a successful counterinsurgency, it all starts with the person at the top.On Thursday, December 3rd, Mark Moyar will appear at the Pritzker Military Library to discuss his new book, A Question of Command: Counterin (Read More)