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...nervous Iraqi government to sign on to the Sons of Iraq program, which turned thousands of insurgents into neighborhood-watch groups. If Petraeus gets credit for ushering in the surge, it was Odierno who "made it work," says Lieut. General Nasier Abadi, deputy chief of staff of the Iraqi joint forces...
...would be taking five courses.” “I don’t know how he does it,” says Daniel P. Gurney ’09, who used to play with Campbell during freshman year. “He’s a joint student at the five -year program at NEC, [but] still finds time to play shows and go to jam sessions in Boston.” While Campbell says it can be stressful trying to fit practice and schoolwork into one schedule, the Quincy House junior says he manages...
...According to Andreasen, Sewall’s work at the center focused on two major projects, both of which illustrated her passion for studying the interaction between humanitarian needs and armed conflict. The Mass Atrocities Response Operations Project, which Sewall directs at the Carr Center, is a joint three-year project with the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. The Harvard-based project studies the prevention of genocide and similar mass atrocities from an operational perspective, examining what roles should be played by the U.S. government, non-governmental organizations, and peacekeeping forces. Additionally, Sewall’s work with...
...such efforts fail, there's little for the crew to do but watch the pirates use grappling hooks and rope ladders to climb aboard and take them hostage. "The crews [of the captured ships] are not exorbitantly large," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday. (That's an understatement: the supertanker's crew of 25 runs a ship three times the size of a Nimitz-class U.S. carrier, which is manned by 3,200 sailors, not including the 2,500 responsible for flying and maintaining its aircraft.) "So once they have access," Mullen added, "they...
...hard deadline for the removal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011 represent a significant retreat for a Bush Administration that has long opposed setting a timetable for withdrawal. And it also poses a challenge for the U.S. military. Despite the agreement on a timetable for withdrawal, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, on Monday stressed he still wants U.S. troops withdrawn only when security conditions warrant...