U.S. Plans Big Military Retraining for Terrorism War
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The Bush administration, beset by  violence in Iraq and growing strains on the armed forces, plans  to sharply increase the number of soldiers with noncombat  skills as it pursues its war on terrorism, officials and  analysts said on Tuesday.
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Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over the past two years, putting the United States in a "heightened threat environment" despite expanded worldwide counterterrorism efforts, according to a new intelligence estimate.
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President George W. Bush said on  Tuesday he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to  deal with the long-term fight against terrorism, The Washington  Post reported on its Web site.
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Japan has unveiled a new defence policy that envisions a bigger role in global military cooperation and aims to create a more flexible force to cope with terrorist and missile attacks.
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If the U.S. hopes to withdraw from Iraq, it needs to succeed in training a police force
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Chinese soldiers will be given more extensive training ahead of this year's Beijing Olympics to deal with potential terrorist attacks, including nuclear and biochemical threats, state media said on Monday.
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Since the Iraq war began, the U.S. Army has quadrupled the number of soldiers it trains each year to be detainee interrogators, according to Army officials involved in the program.
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Defense wants to remake the armed services, and one of the critical tools would be a global, common networking architecture for US forces.
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The U.S. Army is now planning to keep at least 120,000 troops in Iraq for the next two years to train and fight with Iraqi forces against insurgents, a senior Army general said on Monday.
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With faux insurgents, fake bombs, real concrete barriers and a little city of tents, training to prepare Reservists and National Guard members for Iraq is becoming more realistic.
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Terms for a reshaping of U.S. forces that would put more emphasis on dealing with insurgencies, terrorist networks, failed states and other nontraditional threats have been drafted, according to officials.
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The new Afghan army is winning the  support of the population and is capable of tackling a  lingering insurgency by remnants of the ousted Taliban regime,  the U.S. general in charge of its training said Monday.
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The world's biggest anti-terrorism exercise will be held this year on Guam, underscoring the Pacific island's growing importance to Washington.
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President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to deal with the long-term fight against terrorism, The Washington Post reported on its Web site.
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The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia has launched planning for more extensive use of U.S. troops to train Pakistani armed forces
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The new Afghan army is winning the support of the population and is capable of tackling a lingering insurgency by remnants of the ousted Taliban regime, the U.S. general in charge of its training said Monday.
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President Bush on Monday announced plans to shift as many as 70,000 U.S. troops who are now stationed in Western Europe and Asia in one of the largest realignments since the end of the Cold War.