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...believes the 183 F-22s currently planned are sufficient. "I know that the Air Force is up here and around talking about 350 or something on that order," the Secretary said. But buying more of the costly F-22 will come at the expense of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is about half the price...
That’s not to say that secondary fields are entirely bad. There are some people whose interests really do lie in two disparate fields that cannot be combined with a joint concentration. And, as was pointed out when secondary fields were introduced, the option does add some flexibility to an all-too-unforgiving system...
...intelligence is getting better, and that sometimes the Predator drones do work." However, he cautions, "It gives the impression that Pakistani sovereignty has been breached, and that builds resentment." Recent remarks by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the United States is "ready, willing and able" to conduct joint combat operations against rising militancy in Pakistan has only inflamed tensions. The prevailing opinion is that for the past six years Pakistan has been fighting America's war on terror, and has gained nothing but a virulent crop of suicide bombers ready to take revenge...
...Neither U.S. nor Pakistani officials have officially confirmed Tuesday's predator attack, but such joint maneuverings come as little surprise to Pakistani analysts. "This is nothing new," says defense analyst Nasim Zehra. "Coordinated attacks using Pakistani intelligence and U.S. firepower have been accepted by many levels of governmental institutions, but for deniability purposes no one will ever confirm what happened...
...January, of an additional 30,000 U.S. troops, that seemed as tactically bold as it was politically unpopular. With his approval ratings ebbing and a bipartisan group of wise elders urging him to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, Bush went in the other direction. Overcoming the opposition of the Joint Chiefs, Bush sent five additional combat brigades to secure the capital, hunt down al-Qaeda in Iraq in the countryside and, at least in theory, stop the violence long enough for the country's Sunnis and Shi'ites to find common ground on power-sharing...