Word: commandeering
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...Defense Department sources say the department is engaged in "intense discussions" about possibly deploying some U.S. forces to help rebuild Afghanistan. They tell TIME that a planning team of civil-affairs experts from the U.S. Army special-operations command is on its way to the region to begin investigating how Army civil-affairs soldiers could help...
Supplies are a major problem. Sitting in a shell-pocked command post with a panoramic view of the Kapisa front lines, Mahmad Zahir, a platoon commander with 21 years of combat experience, pulls out three Kalashnikov rifle magazines from the webbing under his jacket and lays them on the floor for inspection. Two of the three are empty. "We're short of ammunition--for tanks, artillery, machine guns, rifles. It's already cold, but we don't have enough blankets, and we have no winter uniforms," says the bearded, sunken-cheeked veteran. "If the Americans hit the Taliban...
...Defense Department sources say the department is engaged in "intense discussions" about possibly deploying some U.S. forces to help rebuild Afghanistan. They tell TIME that a planning team of civil-affairs experts from the U.S. Army special-operations command is on its way to the region to begin investigating how Army civil-affairs soldiers could help...
...location by satellite to fleet managers, while a two-way messaging system allows drivers and trucking officials to stay in touch. Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego offers truckers a panic button. When it's pushed, a ping sounds in the company's network management center, a NASA-style command base with 31 computer monitors. In an emergency, an operator can alert authorities to the location of the truck in distress...
...secret--decapitate the Taliban, eliminate al-Qaeda's terror apparatus and seize Osama bin Laden. Administration insiders call the strategy "Taliban plinking" (echoing the "tank plinking" of the Gulf War): special forces plan to pick off one individual at a time, starting with Mullah Omar and working down the command chain of Taliban leaders protecting bin Laden. The first wave of lightning special-ops strikes was, as much as anything else, a psychological weapon designed to boost American spirits and faith in the government, silence suspicions that the public might go wobbly after seeing American blood shed, and send...