Lt.-Gen. Rick Hillier to be named new chief of defence staff
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OTTAWA (CP) - Lt.-Gen. Rick Hillier, a Newfoundlander who headed the NATO mission in Afghanistan last year, will be named chief of defence staff, The Canadian Press has learned.
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President Bush's pick to be the nation's next defense chief will face his first round of questioning from senators Tuesday.
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President Pervez Musharraf makes a series of top-level military appointments in a major reshuffle.
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The Black Watch army regiment, which lost seven soldiers during a recent mission in Iraq, is to be merged with other units as part of a major military overhaul, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon revealed.
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The Canadian armed forces chief of staff on was elected to take over as head of NATO's Military Committee, the alliance's highest military authority, military and diplomatic sources said.
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Israel's cabinet approves the appointment of Maj Gen Gabi Ashkenazi as the new head of its armed forces.
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The time has come for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to leave his Pentagon post, either by dismissal or resignation. Two separate reports this week make it clear that Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon officials
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Serbia and Montenegro appoints a new head of its armed forces, in a move seen as a bid to move closer to joining NATO.
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President Laurent Gbagbo has named a hard-liner as army chief of staff, prompting diplomats to warn Sunday of a possible resumption of hostilities against the rebel-held north of the Ivory Coast.
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The US Senate voted to confirm the appointment of President George W. Bush&#39;s new war &quot;czar&quot; Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, who will oversee the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, carried out his orders, and declined to engage in public dissent. The end of his career is one more sign of the politicization of the American military.
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A member of Pfc. Lynndie England's defense team said Friday that the Army will soon announce it will court-martial the reservist, one of the most recognizable figures in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
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Israel's new Labour Party chief and former PM, Ehud Barak, is appointed the country's defence minister.
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Exclusive: For the second time, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is transferring a top-level commander rather than promoting a younger leader--raising eyebrows among military leaders
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Politics: 21 December 2004, Tuesday. The Bulgarian delegation to NATO has a new chief after Contra-Admiral Emil Lutskanov took over the military representative duties from General Major Sabi Sabev.
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The Defense chief's first press conference marks a change in atmosphere at the Pentagon
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Iran's supreme leader announced a new chief for the country's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Saturday, as the Bush administration considered giving terror status to the state military agency.