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...Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a name less inappropriate than it might appear. Iraq’s neighbor to the east is a favorite target of Bush rhetoric, in part because of its strategic contributions to the Iraqi insurgency, its abortive nuclear ambitions and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s maniacal defiance. Iran’s status as a dangerous state is unmistakable, and the White House’s apprehension toward it legitimate...
...Criticism of the Army’s weapons procurement system has not been limited to noncombat units or even the Iraqi theatre of operations. In Afghanistan, the M16’s little brother, the M4 carbine, has also been the target of a litany of complaints. A 2006 survey of returning veterans revealed that 19 percent of those who had been issued an M4 had suffered a stoppage during combat, and that almost 20 percent of these users had not been able to clear the jam without assistance. Considering that the M4 is a specialty weapon mainly issued to elite...
Four Army combat brigades and two Marine battalions are scheduled to withdraw from Iraq in the next few months. General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. forces in Iraq, has warned that too fast a drawdown could result in the "disintegration of the Iraqi security forces, al Qaeda-Iraq regaining lost ground, [and] a marked increase in violence." "American troops," said the President during his State of the Union speech on Monday, "are shifting from leading operations to partnering with Iraqi forces." But when it comes to CLCs, the transition will be difficult because the central Baghdad government does...
American brass is banking on the Iraqi government filling that vacuum. The U.S. general in charge of training Iraqi forces said Friday that the Iraqi government will be taking more of a role in running the CLC program. "The government of Iraq is very much a part of the program,' said Lt. Gen. James Dubik, commander of the Multinational Security Transitional Command in Iraq, "and at some point they will run this program...
There are about 70,000 Iraqis in the CLCs, armed and funded by the U.S. But the Iraqi government has agreed to eventually take over the program, said General Dubik, with the plan to vet and absorb about 30% into the Iraqi police or Iraqi military. So what about the roughly 50,000 that would leave unemployed? "The others will go into some other civil service corps, vocational training or other job-related training," said, Dubik. "That system is still in development." The question is, will the unintegrated CLCs hold on to their weapons and potentially cause havoc? Korb asks...