AFP – The top US military commander Admiral Michael Mullen met American soldiers deployed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, kickstarting his second visit to the war-torn country in just weeks, an official said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The top US military commander Admiral Michael Mullen arrived in Afghanistan Wednesday on a three-day visit to meet US soldiers deployed in the south and east of the country, an official said. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began a review Wednesday of a new community-based defense program recently deployed to combat rising violence in a province on the doorstep of Kabul. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The top US military commander warned Wednesday that Americans cannot expect a swift victory over the Taliban and Al-Qaeda despite the imminent deployment of 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Time.com – The Senate Armed Services Committee reveals how Rumsfeld’s DoD adapted methods used to train U.S. personnel to withstand pressure for false confessions Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Top US officials, not a “few bad apples” of low rank, were behind harsh military interrogation tactics that spread from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan to Iraq, a new Senate report said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Computer spies have hacked into the Pentagon’s costly program for a new fighter jet, a US newspaper reported Tuesday, but the Defense Department said sensitive technology for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft had not been compromised. Read the rest of this entry »