Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department has sponsored a visit by a delegation of Iraqi police officers for a training course in cooperation with the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The department’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs oversaw a three-week training course for 10 Iraqi women officers on criminal investigation and other issues. [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M Downing Carter Malkasian, War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier. (London: C Hurst & Co Publishers; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). A government that is losing to an insurgency isn’t being out-fought, it’s being out-governed. – Bernard Fall In 1972, late in the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented step, an Israeli subsidiary has been contracted by the United States to supply equipment to Arab militaries. The U.S. Defense Department has awarded the U.S. subsidiary of Elbit Systems a contract to supply aircraft components to such Arab League states as Iraq and Kuwait. The $31 million [...]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign. Mr. Obama is the liberal Nixon — a corrupt chief executive, who [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Joint Strike Fighter, designed as a low-budget fighter-jet, has now exceeded $150 million per unit. Britain, a leading partner in the JSF program, reported that the F-35 cost more than $150 million. British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said the rising cost could hamper his government’s procurement plans. “It’s [procurement] [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Iran has been closely monitoring the U.S.-led naval exercise in the Gulf. The U.S. Navy has reported both Iranian air and surface vessel reconnaissance of the current International Mine Countermeasures Exercise, which began operations on May 12. Officers said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was sending small fast attack [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey It is increasingly apparent that there is no appetite in either the United States or Israel at this time to go to war with Iran by attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities. For the time being, the June elections in Iran are used as a reason not to attack, on [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ISTANBUL — Turkey has been awarded billions of dollars worth of subcontracts without the purchase of the Joint Strike Fighter. Lockheed Martin has pledged to provide Turkey with at least $12 billion in subcontracts for the production of the F-35 fighter-jet. The pledge came despite Turkey’s refusal to place an order for [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States, despite its latest $3 billion arms package, continues to deny an advanced bunker-buster munition to Israel. Officials acknowledged that the administration of President Barack Obama rebuffed at least three Israeli requests for the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, designed to destroy deep bunkers constructed by Iran and North Korea. [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M Downing Most accounts of the Second Iraq War (2003-11) attach great importance to counterinsurgency programs in ending the conflict there. The shift from using heavy firepower to winning hearts and minds is said to have created a “Sunni Awakening,” which changed the course of the war and brought a [...]
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