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...charged us to ensure that the change we wish to see in this community is ultimately brought about by us,” Sterling said. “We now have a duty to answer Obama’s challenge.” Ford also urged attendees to actively combat existing social prejudices. “Though times have changed, people haven’t changed,” she said. “Our President transmogrified the land. But if he is to succeed, we have a lot to do.” BPLA Finance Director Crystalee J. Forbes...
...Besides the F-22, other casualties will be a new search-and-rescue helicopter and the Army's Future Combat Systems program - a $160 billion fleet of high-tech vehicles and aircraft that is ideal for waging war against a powerfully armed nation-state but is of far less use for the kinds of counterinsurgency wars currently being waged. And the Navy's shipbuilding program, which has been shoddily run for years, will see some cuts. Gates also plans to cut spending on missile defense by $1.4 billion next year, while new satellite communications programs are trimmed. And the Marines...
...setting a new tone for international relations repeatedly frustrated by the harsh reality of how hard the job is. Despite new agreements for international support of the war effort in Afghanistan, victory against Al Qaeda remains a distant, difficult, long-range goal, with the military onus remaining on U.S. combat troops. Furthermore, a consensus of economic observers advise that the economic crisis, though mollified by some international confidence-building agreement, is unlikely to be solved quickly by the actions taken by the G20. (See TIME's photos of "Obama's Travels in Europe...
...Under so-called caveats, each government sets restrictions on how and where their soldiers operate. Britain, France and the Netherlands are willing to send troops into combat, but many other European nations - including Germany, which has Europe's biggest military force - restricts them to non-combat roles. The Italian government recently said it would like to allow its troops in Afghanistan to engage in more fighting. A Pentagon official told TIME on Friday that although the U.S. would not reject any offers of more combat troops from Europe, they are instead pushing harder for "money to grow the Afghan national...
...just 2% of the 2.5 million who are in uniform" a figure which Abuthnot says is "generous." In an interview in Strasbourg, NATO's military committee chairman Giamcampo Di Paolo, an Italian Admiral, told TIME that he is pushing European leaders to allow their troops to engage in combat. Di Paolo says he nonetheless thinks that some of NATO's critics are exaggerating the problem of Europe's military abilities "to try to wake up the Europeans...