Bush taps army general for top NATO military command
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President George W. Bush has nominated an army general who currently oversees &amp;quot;war on terror&amp;quot; detention operations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the post of Supreme Allied Commander Europe, the Pentagon said.
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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.
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For the first foreign trip of his second term, President Bush will travel to Europe in February to meet with European leaders, beginning with a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium.
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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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A relaxed President Bush welcomed NATO's top diplomat to his ranch Sunday for talks to be dominated by the surging violence in Afghanistan.
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The top U.S. military officer, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, will retire at the end of his term later this year and be replaced as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
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US President George W. Bush is expected to visit the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union on Feb. 22 next year in a bid to improve transatlantic
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President George W. Bush will seek $140.7 billion on Monday for the U.S. Army in fiscal 2009, including increased funds to buy helicopters and other equipment, according to budget documents obtained by Reuters.
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President Bush on Tuesday nominated  a trusted confidant, national security adviser Condoleezza  Rice, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state in Bush's  second term.
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NATO will assume responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday, when it takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday.
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After launching wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while largely bypassing NATO, the Bush administration is now pressing for an expanded role for the alliance in both countries and signaling a new readiness to work more closely with its NATO allies.
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NATO will assume responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday.
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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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Army Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, who is finishing a tour as the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, has been nominated to take over as the Army's vice chief of staff, a position that would have Odierno running the service's day-to-day operations.
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NATO nations need to increase the number of troops they send to Afghanistan, President Bush said in a speech Thursday.
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President Bush, embroiled in a  fierce campaign battle over national security, on Friday will  give the post of CIA director some of the broad authority that  the Sept. 11 commission envisioned for a new intelligence czar.
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WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush has nominated a former New York City police commissioner to head the department that oversees the security of the United States.