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...already in use for Iraq, provides sea access to Central Asia and points east. Feith and other Pentagon officials stress that the aim is not just to move east but to change the nature of U.S. deployments. "We want to do things in a highly expeditionary way: land a battalion, train for a couple of months with a host nation, leave and then come back six months later," said Jones. "We want a family of bases that can go from cold to warm to hot." Whatever the call, Eastern Europe is ready: Bulgaria's fractious parliament last month approved...
...hear the soldiers tell it, they didn't stand a chance. Their attackers?roughly 100 in number?slipped into the army camp through a thicket of bamboo and fruit trees, armed with machine guns. The barracks were hopelessly vulnerable: almost 300 soldiers were asleep, while the rest of the battalion was either temporarily stationed elsewhere or on leave. And the sleeping soldiers were not even a fighting force but engineers building roads and canals in the province of Narathiwat in Thailand's deep south. When the shooting began, at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 4, the soldiers awoke with...
...Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, furious that a battalion base had been overrun, declared that the four soldiers killed that night "deserved to die." He imposed martial law in three of the five southern provinces and acknowledged that the south harbors an Islamic insurgent movement bent on creating unrest within Thailand. His security adviser, retired General Kitti Rattanachaya, claimed the attacks last week were the work of a little-known group, the Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (G.M.I.P.), which has close ties to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia?a militant Islamic outfit with links to more established terror groups Jemaah Islamiah...
...rage. "I wanted to be the first one to kick down a door. I wanted to find the mother____ers. But the one thing we can do is honor his memory. He'd rather we do that than go on a bloodthirsty rampage." A few days after the battalion's memorial service for Colgan, Rabena gathered Whiteside, Schermerhorn and Buxton and phoned Colgan's wife Jill. She asked them about her husband's final hours. Buxton gave her straight answers but omitted gruesome details, telling her that Colgan had been conscious and looking around but not that he had lost...
...brick battalion headquarters on the base, a family-readiness group meets regularly to plan luncheons and trips to the zoo. If someone is sick, the other spouses mobilize grocery shopping and child care. In the corner there is a stack of coloring books to help kids prepare to say goodbye--and hello again. A wall is decorated with pictures of soldier-dads swimming in the pool at the Baghdad palace where they are quartered...