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...pleasure craft and scrambled a secretive 100-person Maritime Safety and Security Team from its base in Hampton Roads, Va. The group, code-named MSST 91102, patrolled the harbor with 38-ft. boats mounted with heavy machine guns. Tactical officers armed with automatic weapons were prepared to seize command of any suspicious vessel by cutting it off with a cruiser and leaping aboard or fast-roping down onto its deck from a helicopter. Nothing unexpected took place. But rumors of fugitives and the visibly increased security in Manhattan combined to give the last night of 2002 an underlying dread...
...mutual. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf had rung out the old year by boasting that he had forced India to back down during last year's tense standoff in Kashmir by threatening to go beyond conventional warfare. On Jan. 4, New Delhi responded by announcing it had established a command and control structure for its nuclear arsenal. Then, three days later, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes further ratcheted up the belligerence when he bragged, "We can take a [nuclear] bomb or two or more, but when we respond there will be no Pakistan." He followed up by having a short...
Could you stare this man down? General Franks is the officer in charge at U.S. Central Command, the nerve center for American military operations in 25 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. That means he is responsible for running the war in Afghanistan, and, if it comes to that, he will be giving orders in Iraq. Franks has taken flak for wanting to wage war the old-fashioned way. But no one questions the strength of his resolve...
...genuine peacekeeping as is being done--and given the tendencies of its warlords, peace in Afghanistan is never easily kept--is in the hands of the non-American soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), whose leadership is about to pass from Turkey to a joint German-Dutch command. Until very recently, the Pentagon seemed anything but keen to see ISAF's mission extended beyond Kabul, to which it is limited. Yet if a new Afghan nation is to be built, its writ will need to run in more places than the capital city...
...Pentagon has been moving its forces into the Persian Gulf theater to prepare for battle. More than 50,000 troops are now deployed in the gulf--5,000 of them at bases in Qatar, the roughly Connecticut-size emirate that serves as a headquarters for the military's Central Command and its chief, General Tommy Franks, who would direct any operation against Iraq. Last week 1,000 U.S. and British troops stationed at the top-secret Camp As Sayliyah--just 700 miles south of Baghdad--took part in a virtual war game called Internal Look. They also received a visit...