Defence chiefs discuss Army cuts
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Controversial proposals to reduce the number of army regiments are expected to be finalised by military chiefs.
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The White House is to consider whether defence chiefs should take over CIA covert paramilitary operations.
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WARSAW  -- Defense chiefs for NATO's 26 member  nations agreed on Friday they must meet troop commitments for  the alliance's Afghanistan peace mission, which is suffering  from personnel shortfalls, an alliance spokesman said.
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Britain's Ministry of Defense said Friday that it was discussing coalition troop deployments in Iraq with the country's interim government and U.S. officials.
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Britain's military is at the limit of its capacity and can barely cope with the demands placed on it, the head of Britain's army said in an interview.
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DUBLIN -- Prime Minister Bertie Ahern urged Irish Republican Army commanders yesterday to meet what he acknowledged was ''a heavy burden&quot;: disarming and disbanding their organization in support of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord.
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and his negotiating team are to meet his national executive as British and Irish government officials prepare their response to questions about proposals to revive power sharing at Stormont.
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Forces cannot continue their commitments for much longer without changes, chief of defence staff tells MPs.
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The Cabinet is today discussing plans to redeploy British troops to an American-controlled area in central Iraq. Ministers are poised to decide whether to allow 650 troops from the Black Watch regiment to shift to the region.
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Defense secretary endorses the idea of pausing the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq this summer.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates met his top military commanders in Iraq on Monday to discuss the pace of U.S. troop reductions, a day after militants killed more than 50 people in a spate of attacks.
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The government is expected to announce improvements to the terms and conditions of Gurkhas in the British army.
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DUP leader Ian Paisley has had further discussions with the head of the independent decommissioning body (IICD) on the issue of putting IRA weapons beyond use.
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Allied defence ministers with troops on the front line in southern Afghanistan held talks Friday on how to fill gaps in forces and hammer out a strategy for the next half a decade.
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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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Prime Minister Bertie Ahern urged Irish Republican Army commanders on Sunday to meet what he acknowledged was "a heavy burden": disarming and disbanding their organization in support of Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord.
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Defense and foreign ministers from eight NATO countries were gathering Friday in Scotland for a two-day conference to discuss Afghanistan's future, where the U.S. defense secretary plans to press allies to commit more resources to the fight there.