AP – President Barack Obama’s top intelligence official suggested Thursday that China’s massive military spending will spur continued U.S. arms sales to Taiwan to maintain a military balance in the potentially dangerous Taiwan Strait. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The US military has released more than 100 prisoners from Abu Ghraib jail, which has been renamed Baghdad Central Prison, Iraqi officials said on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Since the start of the Iraq War in 2003 the number of overweight and obese US military has doubled, in keeping with the national trend but also due to the stress of deployment, a Pentagon study said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – In the first significant military judgement of his presidency, US President Barack Obama will likely decide in “the next few days” on US troop deployments to Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – As of Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, at least 576 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Tuesday at 10 a.m. EST. Read the rest of this entry »
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