windsofchange.net - 1/9/2009
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RQ-7 Shadow (click to view full)
A recent development has profound implications for the balance of power between America's armed services, and ties into a growing trend.
The trend is the growing use of Army UAV drones and precision artillery/ rockets, in order to perform close air ...
ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
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ricks.foreignpolicy.com —
I blurbed his book, he blackballed me Did
faculty members at the Army War College curtail their...
criticism of the Iraq war for fear of institutional retaliation? That seems to be the bottom line in a situation I stumbled across just a few ...
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Fiasco at the Army War College
news.yahoo.com - 1/7/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family
members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan...
wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., was sending a personal letter to all ...
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Army apologizes for hurtful message to survivors - ...
vetvoice.com - 1/14/2009
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vetvoice.com —
The fact is, while the Army has been
lowering its entrance standards with regard to education, physical...
fitness, and crime since the end of the Cold War, that process has accelerated since the invasion of Iraq. And this is something that the ...
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Reclaiming Army Standards
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The new Army Air Corps
Maggie's Farm —
The future of unmanned, Army-controlled battlefield air power. Very cool.
Army’s Unmanned Air Force
The American Mind —
Joe Katzman looks into the continuing rise of the Army’s use of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). They’re near the point where they’ll have their own de facto Air Force. The Air Force won’t like it, but Katzman sees it as the being good for fighting wars.
“The New Army Air Corp” [via memeorandum] ...
Federalized Air Power
Neptunus Lex —
... Joe Katzman, writing at Winds of Change, speaks to the issue of tactical-level UAS - what a UAV used to be, before someone got hisself a FITREP bullet for changing the name - associated with ground forces rather than under the aegis of a USAF Joint Force Air Combat Commander (JFACC): ...
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New Iraqi Howitzer.
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US military defines Mahdi Army as "militia insurgency group"
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blogs.abcnews.com 3/5/2009 — ABC News' Luis Martinez reports: The Army has had another bad month for suicides within its ranks with 18 suspected suicides during the month of February. That is a decrease from January's record-high of 24 suspected suicides, but one Army...
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Get Ready for a Trade War
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