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...forces had a chance to secure it. The Marines call the need to tolerate the frustration of such incidents "tactical patience." Just how patient Americans and their Commander in Chief will turn out to be with Stan McChrystal's new way of fighting the Afghan war remains to be seen...
...effect, been in the Army for all his 54 years - both his father and paternal grandfather were Army officers, his father making it to two-star general. After graduating from West Point in 1976 - 31 years after his father - McChrystal climbed the Army ladder. He's seen some tragedies. In 1994, McChrystal was a lieutenant colonel with the 82nd Airborne Division when a flaming F-16 jet plowed into a parked C-141 at Pope Air Force Base. The cargo plane's 55,000 gallons of jet fuel erupted into a massive fireball, killing 18 of McChrystal's troops...
...cool steward of Indonesia's young and often chaotic democracy, denting the country's grim legacy of corruption, cracking down on radical Islamist groups and rebuilding a nation that suffered the brunt of 2005's devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. SBY - Yudhoyono is widely referred to by his initials - is seen as a moderate and honest figure in a nation still emerging from decades of cronyism under the deceased military dictator Suharto. When his triumph is certified, he will become the first President to be re-elected in what is the world's most populous Muslim democracy. (Read about Indonesia...
...Even though SBY was a senior member of a deeply unpopular government, he has come to be seen as a victim of that government rather than part of it." - Denny Ja, an Indonesian political analyst...
...trail does lead to North Korea, there's no reason to believe it ends there. Meyerrose, now with the consulting firm Harris Corp., points out that hackers routinely route their attacks through other countries and networks, using multiple cutouts to evade detection. "In every attack I've ever seen, the attackers were careful to use cybersurrogates," he says...