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U.S. Navy weighs termination of Lockheed ship
The Navy is considering terminating the construction of a shore-hugging ship being built by Lockheed Martin Corp. due to cost overruns, Navy chief Adm. Mike Mullen said Thursday.In January, the Navy took the unusual step of ordering Lockheed to halt work
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The Navy is considering terminating the construction of a shore-hugging ship being built by Lockheed Martin Corp. due to cost overruns, Navy chief Adm. Mike Mullen said Thursday.
In January, the Navy took the unusual step of ordering Lockheed to halt work for 90 days on the littoral combat ship (LCS) because of soaring costs.
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Security effort expanding beyond Baghdad
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said the Baghdad security operation will be extended beyond the city limits to target these Sunni areas, which he referred to as "the Baghdad belts.""The priority clearly is Baghdad, (but) anyone who kn
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The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said the Baghdad security operation will be extended beyond the city limits to target these Sunni areas, which he referred to as "the Baghdad belts."
"The priority clearly is Baghdad, (but) anyone who knows about security in Baghdad knows you must also secure the Baghdad belts," Petraeus told reporters at his first news conference since taking command last month.
New U.S. Commander in Iraq Won’t Rule Out Need for Added Troops - New York Times
The new American commander inIraq, Gen.David H. Petraeus, warned Thursday that American troops here faced a long road ahead and left open the possibility of calling in even more soldiers as he described the difficult task of calming the country.
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The new American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, warned Thursday that American troops here faced a long road ahead and left open the possibility of calling in even more soldiers as he described the difficult task of calming the country.
Arabic speakers monitor Net chats - World - The Washington Times, America?s Newspaper
The State Department has hired two native Arabic speakers to monitor Arabic political discussion forums on the Internet and to overtly participate in them in an effort to correct misperceptions about U.S. policy in the Middle East.The small "digital outre
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The State Department has hired two native Arabic speakers to monitor Arabic political discussion forums on the Internet and to overtly participate in them in an effort to correct misperceptions about U.S. policy in the Middle East.
The small "digital outreach team," which also includes a supervising Foreign Service officer, was created in December by Karen Hughes, undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, as part of her campaign to prevent mistakes and speculation about the United States from being accepted as truth, officials said.
White House Vows Veto Over Iraq Plan
House Democratic leaders vowed Thursday to pass legislation setting a deadline of Sept. 1, 2008, for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, a challenge to President Bush's war policy that drew a blunt veto threat in return.
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House Democratic leaders vowed Thursday to pass legislation setting a deadline of Sept. 1, 2008, for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, a challenge to President Bush's war policy that drew a blunt veto threat in return.
Dems Try to Limit Bush?s Authority
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In a speech last week, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "I am working on legislation to repeal that authorization and replace it with a much narrower mission statement for our troops in Iraq."
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she expects the next challenge to Bush's war policies to come in the form of legislation requiring the Pentagon to adhere to strict training and readiness standards in the case of troops ticketed for the war zone.
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., the leading advocate of that approach, has said it would effectively deny Bush the ability to proceed with the troop buildup that has been partially implemented since he announced it in January.
Some Senate Democrats have been privately critical of that approach, saying it would have virtually no chance of passing and could easily backfire politically in the face of Republican arguments that it would deny reinforcements to troops already in the war zone.
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CIA mines ?rich? content from blogs
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The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis based on bloggers worldwide and is developing new methods to gauge the reliability of the content, said OSC Director Douglas J. Naquin.
U.S. Navy Buildup Came After Iran Moves
A scenario for potential war with Iran that has had my attention recently. Apparently it's caught the Navy's attention too.
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Iran has brought its war games maneuvers over the past year into busy shipping lanes in the Straits of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which two-fifths of the world's oil supplies pass, the top U.S. Navy commander in the Mideast said.
The moves have alarmed U.S. officials about possible accidental confrontations that could boil over into war, and led to a recent build-up of Navy forces in the Gulf, Vice Adm. Patrick Walsh said in an interview with The Associated Press and other reporters.
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