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Published: Tuesday November 18, 2008
Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Tuesday warned Georgia that any efforts to strengthen its military would be punished more severely than during the countries’ brief August war.
“We are concerned over the continuing desire of the Georgian administration to develop its military potential,” Serdyukov said through an interpreter after talks with [...]
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Noah Shachtman
The first fight between the Obama team and a member of the military leadership may be brewing — over missile defense. Yesterday, outgoing Missile Defense Agency chief Lt. Gen. Trey Obering appeared to take a veiled shot at the incoming national security team yesterday, calling their knowledge about the interceptor effort “dated.”
Maybe it’s cynical of me but I see this as nothing but damage control. Where was the military, where was the Bush Admin, all this time when these guys were wounded? Why weren’t they looking for guys that fell between the cracks then? Like the limited hangout on Iran and the other sure-to-be-revealed intell blunders [...]
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By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Pictures of an American anti-missile radar installed in southern Israel were released earlier this week, depicting a recently completed military base, which will house the first permanent U.S. force to be deployed on Israeli soil.
Construction of the base was completed in the last few days at Mount Keren near the [...]
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Secrecy News by Steven Aftergood
The conduct of unconventional warfare is explored in depth in a major new U.S. Army Field Manual on the subject (pdf).
Unconventional warfare (UW) is defined as “Operations conducted by, with, or through irregular forces in support of a resistance movement, an insurgency, or conventional military operations… This definition reflects two essential [...]
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Brad Friedman
As I haven’t had much (if any) time to focus on it since last Tuesday’s election, I just wanted to toss in for now, here on Veterans Day, that I find it hard to believe that many of those vets, to whom we ought a great debt, would have risked their lives to fight [...]
By Penny Coleman, AlterNet
Posted on November 11, 2008, Printed on November 11, 2008
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Sarah Palin’s decision not to pay for rape kits when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was an issue in the campaign for the White House. But allow me to introduce the large pink elephant that has been sitting quietly in the corner [...]
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Nathan Hodge
An accident on board a Russian nuclear submarine has claimed at least 20 lives, the worst submarine disaster in nearly a decade.
According to Russian news reports, the ship in question is the K-152 Nerpa, an Akula-class attack submarine. The accident occurred during sea trials in the Pacific Ocean; Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports the [...]
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By Peter Bergen
CNN National Security Analyst
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A classified review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan is likely to judge that the United States is losing ground there, according to a government official involved with preparing the review.
The review, under way since September 20 and led by Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, the senior National [...]
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The Army has agreed to investigate a disproportionate cluster of suicides among recruiters in an East Texas battalion, as well as allegations by other soldiers and family members that they were pressured to cover up serious problems in the battalion, Army Secretary Pete Geren said.
Seventeen Army recruiters have committed suicide nationwide since 2001, but four [...]
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities…Voltaire
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