US MILITARY

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• Taliban releases video of captured US soldier

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Cairo, Dec 25 (DPA) The Taliban Friday released a video purporting to show US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured in Afghanistan nearly six months ago.The US military has not yet publicly verified the video, but the US-based monitoring group IntelCenter said that “initial analysis indicates the hostage appearing ...
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• Al-Qaida fighters killed in Yemen air strikes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Defence minister says US intelligence used to target militants • Three key figures killed in second attack on group in a week Yemeni forces backed by US intelligence have struck a series of suspected al-Qaida hideouts, including a meeting of senior leaders, killing at least 30 militants, the government said. ...
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• Is It Time To Do Away with Military Valor Medals?

  
  ROK Drop — Authority: 512
  Here is an interesting thought brought courtesy of Thomas Ricks’ blog: [A]re valor awards potentially counterproductive in a COIN environment?  Hypothetically, an officer who does effective clear, hold, build, develops partner capacity, and brings a sector to success will likely receive a BSM, if anything. ...
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• Anwar Awlaki dead? Nidal Hasan cleric dead? Nasser al-Wahayshi dead?

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 591
  Anwar Awlaki, the cleric who corresponded with Fort Hood jihadist killer, Nidal Hasan, may be dead in Yemen after a U.S. air strike. Also believed dead is the al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, Nassar al-Wahayshi and his deputy Saeed al-Shehri. Anwar Awlaki Anwar Awlaki is a U.S.-born Yemeni scholar from Las ...
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• Merry Christmas To Our Troops Around The World and At Home!

  
  Chicagoray's Views and News — Authority: 535
  First thing,  this is an awesome poem tweaked for the military and read to " Twas The Night Before Christmas."... A Soldiers Night Before Christmas Terry, Proud Mom of 4 | MySpace Video Secondly: T his is a nice op ed written to the troops I cameacross this morning from the East Ohio newspaper known ...
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• Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 160
  by Jeremy Scahill Rebel Reports Contrary to popular belief, the US actually has 189,000 personnel on the ground in Afghanistan right now—and that number is quickly rising. A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important ...
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• Military service members get increase in allowance for housing

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 695
  Filed under: Home , Real Estate , Career , Recession While President Obama is preparing to send more military personnel to Afghanistan with the new year, for those servicemen and women who are remaining in the United States, the Department of Defense has announced an increase in 2010 for what is known as the ...
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• Christmas and Hanukkah for our Troops

  
  Woman Honor Thyself — Authority: 118
  Listen listen. Heh. “I’ll be home for Christmas, you can count on me. I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.” “Support out Troops” is more than just a bumper sticker sweet friends. It’s cool to stick a yellow ribbon on the back of your car, but it’s quite another thing to ...
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• Wednesday Hero: Merry Christmas And God Bless

  
  MY WEEKLY THOUGHTS — Authority: 111
  With only two days until Christmas, I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and to remind you to keep our men and women that are not able to be with their friends and families this time of year in your thoughts a prayers. They do so much without ever asking for anything in return.These brave men and women ...
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• Afghan forces capture dangerous Taliban commander in Nimroz

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 546
  By Bill Roggio The Afghan military claimed to have captured a dangerous Taliban commander who orders suicide and roadside bomb attacks in the southwestern province of Nimroz. Mullah Sher Malang was captured in a raid in the Khashrod district in Nimroz after a major clash with Taliban forces in the ...
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• Japan-US secret nuclear deal discovered: reports

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 545
  Tokyo: A secret agreement under which Japan allowed the US military to bring nuclear weapons to the Asian nation has been uncovered despite years of denial of its existence by Tokyo, media reports said Tuesday. The 1969 contract, signed by then US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, was ...
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• Up to 56,000 more contractors likely for Afghanistan, congressional agency says

  
  The Uncooperative Bloggers — Authority: 120
  I know that libs and conservatives alike have a problem with the surge. But, since WWII we have waged war with the intent of "nation building". Contractors build things, so there you go. From The Washington Post : The surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan could be accompanied by a surge of up to 56,000 ...
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• bin Laden’s easy escape from US grasp 8 years ago: lucky fugitive, blundering spies

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  It’s been 8 years of cat-and-mouse chase between the US government and Osama bin Laden, the seemingly slippery leader of the slithery terrorist group al-Qaeda. With the US doing all the chasing and bin Laden doing all the skirting, one wonders at the vaunted reputation of American spies. In the news not too far ...
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• General Backs Off Court-Martial Threat for Pregnant Soldiers

  
  At War — Authority: 133
  Maj. Gen. Anthony A. Cucolo III his threat to court-martial military personnel under his command who became pregnant, or impregnated someone else.
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• President Obama Signs The $636.3 Billion Defense Spending Bill

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  President Barack Obama stands in a shaft of light streaming in through a window in the Oval Office while making a phone call, , December 17, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Obama Signs $636.3 Billion Defense-Spending Bill -- Seattle Times President Obama signed into law legislation that ...
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• Strategic Implications of American Millennialism

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 436
  If you have any spare time over the holidays, you might want to read this document concerning “the political impact that dispensational Premillenialism has had on shaping American foreign policy” - Strategic Implications of American Millennialism By Major Brian L. Stuckert, U.S. Army School of Advanced ...
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• This is no smoking gun, nor Iranian bomb | Norman Dombey

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Nothing in the published intelligence documents shows Iran is close to having nuclear weapons Seven years ago Condoleezza Rice said "there will always be some uncertainty" in determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon, but "we dont want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud". Now the focus is on ...
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• Pregnancy, gays banned by U.S. Military, but if you’re a convicted rapist…sign here.

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 647
  By GottaLaff Ive been out for a day or two, and Paddy has been covering like a champ. While I catch up on the mounds of e-mails and tweets, and Paddy takes a well-deserved break, we all benefit from a very welcome guest post. TPC has generous, talented friends in high places who offered to ...
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• A report on why Bush’s ‘enhanced inter…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 495
  A report on why Bush’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ program failed. The section heads pretty well summarize the report. I. TORTURE DOES NOT YIELD ACCURATE INTELLIGENCE • Military, intelligence experts: Info from enhanced techniques is unreliable • The interrogations of Zubaydah and KSM: Enhanced techniques ...
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• Why Are Military Families in Holiday Need?

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 144
  Today, alongside the country’s meekest and poorest, thousands of children and wives of deployed soldiers are lining up for charity in order to make their holidays as full of cheer as the rest of ours.How easily we accept that military children – in part because of low pay and [...]
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