Military officers now targets on Hill
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A Democratic challenge to Gen. Peter Pace indicates that uniformed officers no longer are exempt from the partisan fire on Capitol Hill once reserved for civilian policymakers.
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LONDON -- Political opponents of Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a renewed attack on his handling of the Iraq conflict yesterday, as British soldiers prepared to move deeper into the country to support US troops.
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Intensified military raids in Iraq over the past few months have significantly battered the ranks of mid-level insurgents but have scored few gains against the 30 or so most wanted rebels, according to senior U.S. military officers in Baghdad.
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Experts believe the weapons are secure for now, but they worry about what will happen when new officers take over
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To meet a pressing need for more ground troops, the US armed forces have begun eyeing some of the most dramatic cuts in high-tech weapons since
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LONDON, Sep 25 (IPS) - There have been critics enough of the U.S.-led    military actions under way in Afghanistan, but now military  commanders   too have begun to question just what they are doing  in Afghanistan.
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Outside, they're calling for his head. Politicians, authors and columnists, and a few former generals. They are an angry, noisy bunch. They say he should have quit or been fired long ago. They say he's to blame for what is happening now in Iraq, didn't listen, and must be held to account.
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Buried in the latest Defense Department quarterly report on Iraq is the disclosure that the Baghdad government is now responsible for setting the size of its security forces, and that it has authorized a level of 550,000 military and police forces -- an increase of more than 40 percent over the...
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Iraqi commanders are urging the Americans to go after Sunni targets as the first focus of the military push to secure Baghdad, displaying a sectarian tilt that is delaying full implementation of the plan to drive gunmen from the streets, U.S. officers say.
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Maj. Gen. Carter F. Ham has been placed in charge of an effort to better train the soldiers who are training IraqÂs military.
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Sunni extremists appear to have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police officers and other officials.
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Human rights groups fear the generals may be using police reform as a cover for consolidating power under the military.
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi soldiers started a major operation yesterday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to take control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to
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In their latest attempt to bring sectarian violence under control, American commanders are shifting thousands of combat troops into advisory positions with Iraqi Army and police units.
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It was a telling sign when senior commanders in the Central Command recently started counting the number of Palestinian stone-throwing incidents in the West Bank.
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US troops have begun a new offensive to hunt Taliban and al-Qaeda militants through the harsh Afghan winter, aiming to sap their strength ahead of planned spring elections, the American military said today.
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Some of the Iraqi national police officers who joined U.S. troops on patrols last week advertised their Shiite sympathies or warned residents to hide their weapons.