usatoday.com - 12/4/2008
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Eleven American servicemembers died in combat in the conflicts in November. Seven others died in non-hostile incidents. The highest monthly total for combat deaths in both wars was 129 in November 2004. Security in Iraq has improved dramatically over the past year, despite a number of ...
longwarjournal.org - 12/2/2008
foreignaffairs.org - 12/5/2008
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Reprogramming the Pentagon for a New Age Robert
M. Gates From Foreign Affairs , January/February 2009 Summary:...
The Pentagon has to do more than modernize its conventional forces; it must also focus on today's unconventional conflicts -- and ...
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A Balanced Strategy - Robert M. Gates
longwarjournal.org - 12/4/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
The US government is seeking to add several
former Pakistani intelligence officers to the United Nations’ list...
of international terrorists, The News reported . A senior US intelligence official familiar with the effort to reign in Pakistan’s ...
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US moves to declare former Pakistani officers ...
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U.S. Combat Deaths Hit Low in Iraq and Afghanistan
Weekly Standard Blog —
USA Today reports:
U.S. combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan last month dropped to the lowest combined level since the United States began fighting the two wars more than five years ago.
Eleven American servicemembers died in combat in the conflicts in November. Seven others died in non-hostile incidents. The highest monthly total for combat deaths in both wars was 129 in November 2004.
Security in Iraq has improved dramatically over the past year, despite a number of high-profile bombing against civilian ...
Casualties decline in Iraq and Afghanistan to lowest level
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... The US military reported the lowest level of casualties in both theaters of war in over five years of fighting. The news from Iraq comes as no surprise, as violence has rapidly declined since the surge and some units have yet to fire a weapon in anger during their tour. Afghanistan, though, comes as a much bigger surprise: U.S. combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan last month dropped to the lowest combined level since the United States began fighting the two wars more than five years ago. Eleven American servicemembers died in combat in the conflicts in November. ...
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... . Everyone seems convinced it was the work of Jim Bunning of Kentucky. * Good news from the Middle East: "U.S. combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan last month dropped to the lowest combined level since the United States began fighting the two wars more than five years ago." As encouraging as the trend is, there were still 11 American servicemembers who made the ultimate sacrifice in these conflicts in November. * If current trends continue, by 2010, " ...
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