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...female golfers found time to practice a bit harder to come by recently than they probably would have liked. The busy academic workload and limited practice time caught up to the team this past weekend, as the Crimson placed 19th out of a 21-team field at the NCAA Central Regional Championship in Columbus, Ohio, matching its performance from a year ago. “We definitely struggled this weekend,” junior Claire Sheldon said. “I don’t think we struggled from a lack of preparation because we prepared as much...
...information about the Taliban’s movements, targets, and tactics as well as recruiting allies against the Taliban. Promisingly, President Obama has continued the use of President Bush’s use of CIA covert operations and even increased them in some areas. The new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, confirmed this in an interview, saying that the agency’s campaign against militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas was the “most effective weapon” the Obama administration had to combat al Qaeda’s top leadership...
...Central to this task is the question of how best to balance protection, mobility and survivability in one vehicle. Lighter weight combat vehicles are key to rapid deployment but vehicles built for heavy combat are more likely to survive explosive encounters. IED protection for prospective vehicles could be improved with V-shaped hulls that would better divert the force of the bombs. Additional armor could also be added to the existing designs of the 27-ton vehicles to better protect against RPGs and, just in case, enemy tank fire. The Army Research Lab could also receive more funding to speed...
...continuing fall-out from the break-up of the Soviet Union, ethnic conflicts that cross borders, a combination of both. "What are the possible conflict issues?" asks Maj. Tom Whitlock, Special Operations Command coordinator for one of the wargames. "You can look at Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia and you can see that lines are drawn completely arbitrary of ethnic lines." The Kurds, for example, live in four different countries while even a large, apparently homogeneous country like Iran has a large Arab minority...
...conflicts end? At the end of a week of gaming, the results were mixed. In the Central Asian conflict, says Army Spokesman Harvey Perritt, the NATO rapid reaction force coupled with humanitarian assistance was able to decrease the violence along the border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Korean problem, however, remained largely unresolved. "With the Korean Peninsula," says Perritt, "the problem is bigger than just military." The conclusions drawn from the exercise, he said, were more "informational and cultural." The response to a North Korean attack, he says, would have to require diplomatic, humanitarian and other solutions, including the involvment...