Word: colonels
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...mere expansion of NATO does not represent a threat, [Russian President Dmitri] Medvedev has said repeatedly," said Alexander Sharavin, director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis in Moscow and a former colonel in the Soviet Army. "However, our country cannot welcome NATO's unilateral steps when they are taken regardless of our interests...
...cachet. The US military is finding this out in Iraq and Afghanistan, where there have been numerous successful and nearly successful underground breaches at bases and prisons where suspected terrorists are held. "Protecting underground perimeters is the next capability gap to be bridged in the force protection arena," Lt Colonel Robert Tucker, of the Army's Maneuver Support Center at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, wrote in a recent journal article...
...fully expect that our well-financed adversaries, will take whatever steps they feel they need to take that they think might defeat our mechanisms?both above and below the ground," says Mark Borkowski, a retired Air Force colonel who is now executive director of the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Border Initiative, which oversees the physical and virtual fences on the Mexico border. "We are seeing all kinds of technologies that these people are using to get around some of the fences we are putting in place...
...Every action movie needs an evil overseer to harness, exploit and misuse the hero's reckless powers. In Wolverine it's a U.S. Army colonel, Stryker (Danny Huston), who recruits the Howlett boys for his top-secret platoon of misfits, each with a special skill. The dirty half-dozen includes, to ID them by their nicknames, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Gambit (Taylor Kitsch), Agent Zero (Daniel Henney), Bolt (Dominic Monaghan) and the Blob (Kevin Durand). Logan, sensing Stryker's evil-genius motives, is reluctant to join the gang. "Your country needs you," Stryker pleads, to which Logan replies, "I'm Canadian...
...Nouri al-Maliki condemned an April 26 raid by U.S. forces in the southern city of Kut, calling the incident, which resulted in the deaths of a policeman and a bystander, a "crime" that violates the January security pact requiring Iraqi authorization for all U.S. military missions. While U.S. Colonel Richard Francey called the deaths a "tragedy," American officials maintain that Iraqi counterparts were notified of the raid, which led to the arrest of six suspected militants (all of whom have since been released from custody). Al-Maliki has demanded both an apology and the prosecution of all American soldiers...