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WASHINGTON - The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East told senators for the first time Tuesday that he had envisioned keeping about 20,000 troops in Afghanistan...
...the host country constantly on what is truly needed."Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno, who was the top U.S. military commander in Iraq from 2008 to 2010, said "it would have been better to hold off spending large sums of money" until the...
...Taliban insurgency if Afghan forces are not fully prepared. It is widely thought that Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan, and his senior staff want to keep a large force in place for the summer fighting season, before...
...most of the bases we attacked ... and our troops are still chasing them," said Abdullahi Ali Anod, a Somali military commander. Troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia, known as AMISOM, have been eroding al-Shabab's territory...
...conducted and much discernment on the part of Ostebo. Military commanders are duty-bound to make far-reaching and difficult...and death outcomes or significant incarceration. Military commanders have this duty in their job description but rarely...
...the words you're hearing right now are from Gen. David Petraeus, who has earned his accolades as America's military commander of record. Today, part of his job is to convince an increasingly skeptical American public and political class...
...used in weapons production but which lack any trace of the weapons materials themselves. Some British and U.S. military commanders in Iraq have indicated they are clueless about where these weapons might be or else don't think there are any...
...Fort Wainwright will be sent back into war, a military commander said Thursday. Sound off on the important issues...do it well." According to defense officials, military commanders in Iraq are developing a plan to move as many as...
...down demonstrators in the streets, so its armed forces still enjoy popular respect. Perhaps most important, its military commanders appear to be embracing the mission of managing peaceful change in the political system, unlike the shah's generals...
...newly acquired territory, was the Tlingits didn't think their ancestral homeland was the Russians' to sell. The military commander in Alaska, Jefferson Davis, served as governor of the area and enforced the rule of the United States with the...