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The debate raging about the lessons the U.S. military should learn from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now has a poster child. The forthcoming edition of the quarterly specialist counterinsurgency publication Small Wars Journal features a debate between two men who have come to personalize the divide between the "conservatives" -- who say it is the military's job to fight wars above and ... read more 
Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2008US negotiator John Rood will visit Moscow next week to discuss a controversial US anti-missile shield and a successor to a nuclear arms reduction treaty, the State Department said Friday. The State Department confirmed reports from Moscow that Rood, acting US under secretary of state for arms control and international security, will meet Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in the Russian ... more
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Majuro (AFP) Dec 12, 2008The US has refused a request by the Marshall Islands to use grant money to compensate victims of the American nuclear weapons testing programme in the western Pacific atoll nation, officials said. The US tested 67 nuclear weapons at Bikini and Enewetak atolls from 1946 to 1958 and a Nuclear Claims Tribunal was set up by the two governments to compensate those displaced or suffering health ... more  
London (AFP) Dec 12, 2008Four British troops were killed in two separate explosions Friday in troubled southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said. "Four Royal Marines were killed in two separate incidents in the Sangin area of Helmand province this morning," the MoD said in a statement. In the explosion which occurred south of the town of Sangin, three marines -- two from 45 Commando and one from Command ... more  
Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2008 What should we think, now that the long investigation into the killings of 17 Iraqis by Blackwater contractors last year has ended with the indictment of five of them and a guilty plea by another? First, the implications of the indictment and eventual trial verdict will have an impact that goes far beyond Iraq. Contractors are the U.S. government's American Express card: Uncle Sam ... more 
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 13, 2008Suspected Taliban militants on Saturday attacked a NATO supply depot in northwest Pakistan, destroying 11 trucks and 13 containers bound for foreign troops in Afghanistan, police said. The raid was the fourth on NATO and US military terminals outside the city of Peshawar in the past week alone, highlighting the vulnerability of the key supply route through Pakistan. The attackers struck ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Dec 12, 2008Europe must not remain a military "dwarf," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, as EU leaders vowed to boost military resources so the bloc can live up to its security ambitions. "Europe cannot be a dwarf in terms of defence and a giant in economic matters, it's just not possible," he told reporters after chairing a two-day summit in Brussels. Sarkozy said that the leaders had ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 12, 2008Russia hopes that US president-elect Barack Obama will agree on a successor to a key nuclear arms treaty that expires in 2009, a senior Moscow diplomat said in an interview published Friday. "The president-elect and his team spoke about the future of strategic arms control during the election campaign," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in the interview with VIP-Premier magazine. ... more 
Balad, Iraq (AFP) Dec 13, 2008US troops will stay in Iraqi cities in a support and training role even after a June target date set for a pullback by a new security agreement between the two governments, the top US commander in Iraq said on Saturday. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates met General Raymond Odierno on an unannounced visit to the US air base of Balad north of Baghdad to discuss plans for US forces after the ... more 
Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2008The United States said Friday that there would be no more fuel aid shipments to energy-strapped North Korea until Pyongyang agrees to a written plan to verify its nuclear disarmament. The United States had warned that it would "rethink" its approach to North Korean nuclear disarmament after the latest round of six-country negotiations collapsed in Beijing on Thursday. ... more |
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