Word: commander
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...deepest respect" for his "great contribution to the success of [the] counterterrorist operation [in Chechnya]." Part of that contribution came during operations in the village of Alkhan-Yurt in 1999. In its report, the HRW says that during fighting in the area, "Russian troops under Shamanov's command committed at least 14 killings that amounted to extrajudicial executions...
...that has been exploited by jihadists around the world - and also the home country of most of the 9/11 hijackers. The Kingdom supported Operation Desert Storm in 1991, in which a U.S. multinational force drove Iraqi invaders out of Kuwait, and its Prince Sultan Air Base served as a command-and-control center for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Saudi Arabia has also championed a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, offering full normalization of relations with the Jewish state if it withdraws from Arab territory conquered...
...many enemy fighters had been killed. "I won't talk to you about body count," he said flatly. That's because for decades, the very phrase body count had been deemed poison in the ranks due to its use - and misuse - during the Vietnam War. A generation ago, commanders' careers were made, or hindered, by the number of dead North Vietnamese and Viet Cong chalked up by the forces under their command. The intense focus on only one of what the military calls "measures of effectiveness" distorted the American public's perception of how well the war was going...
...Afghanistan will make it all the more important to deprive al-Qaeda and the Taliban of their safe haven in Pakistan. Obama is widely expected to authorize a broadening of the drone attack to include the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan and its capital, Quetta, where the Taliban high command is thought to be hiding...
...computer criminals in China and Russia have also infiltrated America's electrical grid, covertly installing software to potentially damage it at any time (the governments of both countries have denied such actions). Attacks have mushroomed so quickly that the Defense Department reportedly plans to establish a new military command focused solely on computer warfare. Secretary Robert Gates told CBS News that the Pentagon also plans to quadruple the ranks of its cybersecurity experts, explaining that the country is "under cyberattack virtually all the time, every...