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...addition to herself, Hruska’s 90-person section has two other military veterans: a former Army Ranger and a former aide to General David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, according to Hruska. The other nine sections also have about three veterans each...
...Georgetown University and previously at the Rand Corp. and CIA. But he changed his definition in the latest version of his book Inside Terrorism because "this new strategy of al-Qaeda is to empower and motivate individuals to commit acts of violence completely outside any terrorist chain of command." Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has dubbed Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan a "self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist" - a one-man terrorism cell. (See pictures of the memorial service for the Fort Hood victims...
...were part of some identifiable, organized conspiracy," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University. But Hoffman has changed his definition, he says, because "this new strategy of al-Qaeda is to empower and motivate individuals to commit acts of violence completely outside any terrorist chain of command." Every month this year, he notes, there has been a terrorist event - either an act committed or one broken up before it could be carried out. "The nature of terrorism is changing, and Major Hasan may be an example of that," Hoffman argues. "Even if he turns out to have...
...Army battalion through the 2007 surge, as it attempts to secure a particularly nasty and neglected area of Baghdad. This was the first attempt to implement the Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine, and the troops have their doubts about the new tactics. Major Brent Cummings, the second-in-command, reads the doctrine and is perplexed by sentences like "Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is." Cummings is an infantryman. He has been trained to "close with and destroy the enemy." This new form of warfare is not only weird, but dangerous: instead of living...
...Cynthia continues to hold the fort down back there,” Crimson coach Sue Caples said. “She’s learning how to command her circle...