Former commanding officer of the Joint Special Operations Command, the person formerly responsible for Special Mission Units like the Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta (Delta Force), the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 or Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), and the Air Force’s 24th Special Tactics Squadron, and now commander of the U.S. [...]
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Following the announcement of the new strategy on the war in Afghanistan by President Barack Obama, U.S. officials are clarifying a key point in the strategy that may be misconstrued in any number of ways.
Officials are stressing that the planned pull-out of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, scheduled to start in the summer of 2011, is [...]
We have been following President Barack Obama’s recently-announced plans for Afghanistan, and so far it looks like he is getting the support he is counting on.
NATO allies have pledged an additional 7,000 troops to back the U.S. Afghan plan; the pledge was reportedly received by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. There were 25 countries that [...]
In a previous post, we shared how a group of veterans expressed their approval for the decision of President Barack Obama to send more troops into Afghanistan.
Another rather influential group also expressed support for the Obama plan. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, reportedly praised the President’s decision regarding Afghanistan through a written [...]
A lot of people have been waiting in anticipation for President Barack Obama’s speech at the U.S. Military Academy, where he was expected to finally give an answer to the question that is Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is the bailiwick, from which the horrors of 9/11 were known to have originated, and it has been all of eight [...]
In the wake of even more loss of American lives in Afghanistan with the recent death of 14 Americans in helicopter crashes, the President expressed how he will never take the decision to send more American troops to Afghanistan – and, therefore, “in harm’s way” – lightly. October 26 is now known as one of [...]
