Reuters – Georgia said it put down a mutiny at a military base on Tuesday and accused Moscow of trying to foment a wider rebellion on the eve of NATO war games in the former Soviet republic. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Many major US weapons programs are running over budget and lagging behind promised production schedules, a report by an independent US auditor said Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – Nearly 70 percent of the Pentagon’s 96 major weapons-buying programs were over budget in 2008 for combined cost growth of $296 billion above original estimates, congressional auditors said in an annual report released on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Thirteen US military personnel have been disciplined for their roles in a fighter jet crash in California last year that left four people dead, officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The US embassy in Kyrgyzstan said on Wednesday that it had not received any official notification that the Kyrgyz authorities were ordering the closure of a US military air base. Read the rest of this entry »