Posts Tagged ‘Mullen’
U.S. Adm. Mullen concerned about synergy among terrorist groups
People's Daily | Xinhua | 30 June 2010 Top U.S. military commander shows concern about synergy among terrorist groups Terrorist groups are operating more closely with one another, posing an increasing threat to the global security, top U.S. military commander said in a recent interview. "I'm increasingly concerned about the synergy [...]
Foreign troops die at record rate in Afghan war
Yahoo! News By Emmanuel Duparcq | Fri Jul 17, 6:22 am ET KABUL (AFP) – July 2009 has become the deadliest month for foreign troops fighting an eight-year war in Afghanistan, as Taliban guerrillas hone bombing techniques and Westerners struggle in the harsh climate. A month before Afghanistan goes to the polls for the second time to [...]
America’s Information War on Iran
The Persian Ploy by Jeff Huber, July 14, 2009 A July 5 story by David Sanger of the New York Times typifies how completely our mainstream media have been bulldozed by the warmongery’s propaganda machine. "Despite Crisis, Policy on Iran Is Engagement" states that "the accelerating crackdown on opposition leaders in Iran" will not [...]
Persistent Engagement — Preview of an Emergent Obama Doctrine
In his Posture Statement submitted, in advance of his testimony, to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services hearings on Thursday 14 May 2009, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Navy Admiral Michael G. Mullen has outlined a strategic vision of perpetual war that may well provide an early glimpse into much of what may come to be called "the [...]
Pakistan “More Pressing Threat than Iran” — Ehud Barak
Also, the New York Times spins Adm. Mullen's testimony in a piece, on Pakistan's nuclear weapons, that borders on yellow journalism. According to the Jerusalem Post of 14 May 2009, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister, Defence Minister, and leader of the Labour Party, Ehud Barak, asserted in a recent briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and [...]
Transcript of Senators Levin and McCain’s Questions on Pakistan and Drones, and Gates’ and Mullen’s Answers at the Armed Services Committee Hearing
The US Senate Committee on Armed Services conducted a full committee hearing on Thursday 14 May 2009, to receive testimony in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years Defense Program. What appears below is a rough selective transcript (from live webcast), of the discussion on Pakistan, in the early part [...]
Seuddeutsche on the Changes in the US Afghanistan Command
Afghanistan: This is Now Obama's War Das ist non Obama Krieg R. Klüver und P. Blechschmidt (Rough Translation from the German) U.S. President Obama changes the command structure and strategy in Afghanistan -- reminiscent of his predecessors, Lincoln and Truman. With the abrupt dismissal of the supreme commander of the armed [...]
US Afghan Commander Gen. McKiernan Fired
An earlier post had reported on US Defense Department's move towards greater control of command in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre. On 11 May 2009, the New York Times reported the next step in this process, the replacement of Gen. David McKiernan, head of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as well as the Commander of US Forces [...]
