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...part to the doctors and nurses at Landstuhl, who've transformed what was once a sleepy military hospital into a top-line trauma center. As of last week, just over 1,510 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq and 11,344 had been wounded. The Pentagon does not keep count of dead or wounded Iraqis. Human-rights groups and Iraqi health officials have tried to estimate the number of Iraqi deaths, but the figures vary wildly, between 15,000 and 100,000. No one is sure of the number of Iraqis who have been wounded. Injured Iraqi soldiers remain...
...Iraq, the U.S. is scrambling to train and equip a new Iraqi army to take over combat duties and pave the way for a reduction in the size of the U.S. troop presence. After a slow start, the training program appears to be picking up momentum: last week the Pentagon announced plans to trim the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from 150,000 to 105,000 by early next year, a move that reflects the improved capabilities of the Iraqi forces. The top commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, said that "very much...
...helped manage a large organization. The World Bank is a large organization; the Pentagon is a large organization—he’s been involved in the management of that organization.” Wonderful! Anyone who can manage a large organization can run the World Bank! Why don’t we nominate the head janitor at the Pentagon or Kenneth Lay instead...
...cross hairs this week is a $120 billion Army contract, managed by Boeing, that would enable computer-equipped soldiers on the ground to see and fight the enemy with satellites, unmanned vehicles and futuristic weapons. Senator John McCain of Arizona will hold hearings this week to determine whether the Pentagon was justified in setting the contract, known as Future Combat Systems, outside the normal procurement process. "The type of contracting leaves the government extremely vulnerable because there is no transparency or taxpayer protection," says Eric Miller, the senior defense analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington watchdog group...
McCain oversaw the investigation that helped derail the $23 billion Pentagon deal to lease Boeing tanker airplanes to the Air Force. Investigators found that the company's CFO had violated conflict-of-interest rules, and the scandal landed both him and a high-ranking Pentagon procurement official, who said she had steered other contracts to Boeing, in jail. McCain says he is not on a vendetta against Boeing but continues to have concerns about the Pentagon's procurement processes. "There are a lot of big-ticket items," says McCain. "It is going to be a very tough year." --By Sally...