Military
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As the fog of war in Afghanistan clouded the death of the 2,000th U.S. troop there in the 11-year war, things seem to be reaching a tipping point.
“License and Registration, Please”
Revisiting the Correspondents Corridor
Last week’s item on the new OSD Public Affairs sign over what had long been known as the Correspondents Corridor at the Pentagon is premature, a senior Pentagon official says. “The hallway isn’t yet complete,” the senior official says, “and the name hasn’t been changed.”
The new sign is merely a “locational sign” and the hallway …
Big U.S. Fleet Nears Disputed Islands, But What For?
Standing Guardian Angel
Pentagon’s Correspondents Corridor Renamed
For 40 years, a stretch of the Pentagon’s E-ring, where reporters maintained their desks and Pentagon press officers helped them do their jobs, was known as the Correspondents Corridor. There were humble, but tasteful signs, …
Cloak Blade: First It Was Octo-Mom – Now It’s Octo-Rotor
The Pentagon has unmanned aerial vehicles coming out its ears. Flying in the wake of the Predator and Reaper drones are all kinds of joystick gizmos. Cloak Blade is one of the latest.
“We've begun a transition in Afghanistan, and America and our allies will end our war on schedule in 2014.”
“Under the Taliban, less than 9,000 boys and almost no girls had access to education [in Afghanistan]. Today, more than 8 million children, more than a third of whom are girls, are enrolled in school.”
Bastion: Bulwark or Bullseye?
Last weekend, a band of 15 Taliban fighters attacked Camp Bastion in Afghanistan’s Helmand province and killed two Marines while inflicting the most damage on U.S. warplanes since the Vietnam war’s Tet offensive 44 years …
“Anybody Home?”
What Crisis? U.S. Marines and Japanese Troops Train For War
APRA HARBOR, GUAM – Slipping off a warship in small raiding boats, some 60 Japanese soldiers and U.S. Marines came quietly ashore on an isolated beach here this weekend, looking to catch an unnamed enemy unawares. It was part …
