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...want to know how to defeat the American military, you should ask the Pentagon. On April 6, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a massive restructuring of the United States’ military spending plans for the foreseeable future. Essentially, it cancels or scraps many of the most advanced technological development projects now being undertaken by American industry...
...requiring U.S. involvement. This particular project, not the first prepo at Diego Garcia, is scheduled to begin in November and last for five years. Born in the Cold War, prepo proved so successful in speedy delivery of assets during the first Gulf War and again in 2003 that the Pentagon has continued to expand the program so there is sufficient heavy equipment and ammunition pre-positioned to fight fast in a major theater of war. (See pictures of the fight against the pirates of Somalia...
...quietly significant in a number of ways. The trip was organized and led by the State Department's indefatigable special representative, Richard Holbrooke, with Mullen happily playing second fiddle (except in the closed-door meetings with Afghan and Pakistani military leaders) - a striking reversal of fortune after the Pentagon dominance of the Bush years. It was a demonstration of the Obama emphasis on diplomacy and economic development, a strategy that tracks with the military's new counterinsurgency tactics - "We've developed the best counterinsurgency capability in the world," Mullen said several times - that focus on protecting the public and building...
...prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border ... causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians." Mexico has seen more than 7,000 drug-related killings since early 2008, and the violence now threatening to spill north hasn't escaped attention. Late last year, somewhat hyperbolically, a Pentagon study lumped Mexico in with Pakistan as states that might face a "rapid and sudden collapse...
...here's why Defense Secretary Robert Gates kept discussions on the Pentagon's 2010 budget so secret that he swore the military's high command to silence ahead of the budget's unveiling. Aiming to shift military spending priorities from billion-dollar Cold War-era weapons to the simpler armored vehicles and spy drones needed for the "wars we are in today and scenarios for the years ahead," Gates on Monday proposed, among other things, to end funding of the advanced F-22 Raptor fighter. That cut alone will spark fierce resistance on Capitol Hill, but it's only...