U.S. to create new military command for Africa
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President George W. Bush has approved a Pentagon plan to create a new military command for operations in Africa to coordinate action and counter potential threats from the continent, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
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The United States will endorse African peacekeepers to help prop up Somalia's shaky interim government in a draft resolution to be unveiled on Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said.
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The United States urged NATO countries on Wednesday to assume a bigger role in Afghanistan and to come up with a plan to take over all military operations there, possibly as early as next year.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the United States would provide financial assistance to African Union troops on a proposed mission to end the looting and killing in western Sudan.
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SEVILLA, Spain -- The new American commander of NATO presented a new list of military requirements for Afghanistan yesterday that included a request for more combat troops for the country's restive southern provinces.
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President George W. Bush has  approved a Pentagon plan to create a new military command for  operations in Africa to coordinate action and counter potential  threats from the continent, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said  on Tuesday.
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Air Force Gen. Gregory S. Martin was nominated by the Bush administration to be the new U.S. commander for the Pacific and East Asia, which oversees operations in more than half the globe.
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The US president is expected to announce plans for a major reorganisation of forces stationed abroad.
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The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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The U.S. Marine Corps may need to grow to sustain commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan and remain ready for other crises, the force's new commander said on Wednesday.
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Stabilizing Iraq will require "new and different actions" to improve security and promote political reconciliation, the Navy admiral poised to lead American forces in the Middle East said
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The United States said on Friday it is preparing a new U.N. resolution on Darfur and that Secretary of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.
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The move appeared intended to stymie plans for a U.N. peacekeeping force to take over from the beleaguered African Union force in Darfur.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's plan to restructure U.S. military forces abroad includes bringing two Army divisions home from Cold War-era bases in Germany, and increasing the U.S...
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The United States says it is ready to create a rapid reaction force to defuse cluster bombs left over from conflicts.
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The United States and other nations are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping force into position in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region to halt the bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
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Officials are mulling a new, long-term strategy that shifts military focus from large-scale warfare to fighting terrorism, low-tech guerrilla wars and less conventional threats.