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New York Times March 12, 2012 Pg. 10 By Elisabeth Bumiller WASHINGTON — Despite growing calls for the United States to help stop the bloodshed in Syria, senior Pentagon officials are stepping up their warnings that military intervention would be a daunting and protracted operation, requiring at least weeks of exclusively American airstrikes, with the …
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New York Post March 10, 2012 Pg. 19 Americans — left and right — are sick of thankless Mideast nation-building. Yet democratization was not our first choice, but rather a last resort after prior failures. The United States had long ago supplied Afghan insurgents, who expelled the Soviets after a decade of fighting. Then we …
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Washington Post March 11, 2012 Pg. 1 By Karen DeYoung The Obama administration and its allies and international partners have begun serious discussions about potential military involvement in Syria, even as they continue to press for nonviolent solutions to the carnage there. With little progress made in the two weeks since 70 countries and international …
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Los Angeles Times March 11, 2012 Iran's record of deceit fuels worry over President Obama's assurances that he'll know if Tehran starts trying to build a nuclear weapon. By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Washington--Despite President Obama's assurances that the United States will know if Tehran begins to secretly build a nuclear bomb, …
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Several weeks ago the 100th Operations Group hosted Statoil's Chief Global Strategist and Business Developer, Mr John Knight. John mentioned "The Age of the Unthinkable" shaped much of Statoil's new Global look... and launched Statoil to new and exciting growth. I had read the book when it was first released but needed to go back …
The Guardian (UK) March 10, 2012 Pg. 38 International efforts to end the fighting in Syria are as logjammed as the conflict itself. Kofi Annan, the UN and Arab League special envoy, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Zhang Ming, the Chinese assistant foreign minister, will all be in the region today battling over …
SmallWarsJournal.comMarch 9, 2012By Robert HaddickIn my Foreign Policy column, I discuss why U.S. policymakers and military commanders can't bridge the gap between policy and military strategy.At his White House press conference on March 6, President Barack Obama admitted that the recent murders of U.S. trainers in Afghanistan was "an indication that now is the time …
Communities.WashingtonTimes.com March 9, 2012 By Daniel de Gracia CAMP H.M. SMITH, HAWAII, March 9, 2012 – Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta participated in a change of command ceremony to replace retiring Adm. Robert F. Willard with Adm. Samuel Locklear as the new commander of the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). USPACOM, headquartered on Oahu, is one …
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Good advice for a Saturday... When it seems that you've killed the monster, never check to see if it's really dead. If you find that your house is built upon or near a cemetery, was once a church used for black masses, had previous inhabitants who went mad or committed suicide or died in some …
InsideDefense.com March 8, 2012 Despite a stern warning from the Senate Budget Committee chairman about the likelihood of more defense cuts that would not be as extreme as sequestration, the Defense Department is not planning for that scenario, Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale said today. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), during a Feb. 28 hearing, counseled Hale, …
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