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McCain Politicizes The Military By Floating Petraeus For Vice President In May, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen published a letter to uniformed soldiers warning that " the U.S. military must remain apolitical at all times." Five days later, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was forced to publicly apologize for using a picture of himself with Gen. David Petraeus in campaign fundraising ...

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 24 Hours on the 'Big Stick' - Weekly Standard opinion How to Support the Troops - Boston Globe editorial The Long-Term Costs of War - Intel Dump The Continued Disrespect of Our Armed Forces - Blackfive Speedhawk Challenges Osprey - Danger Room

Blockades: Acts of War by Stephen Lendman / August 19th, 2008 From July 21-31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) “Operation Brimstone” large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast in the North Atlantic. Its purpose may have been to prepare for a naval blockade of Iran. Initial reports after its completion were that ...

Inside the Army: SOCOM Lead for SFA by SWJ Editors From today's Inside the Army (subscription required): Senior Pentagon officials have prepared a memo for Defense Secretary Robert Gates' signature that would give US Special Operations Command the lead in overseeing ...

<h3 class="entry-header"> Army's Iron Major Shortage </h3> by SWJ Editors From today's Washington Post - Deployments Are a Factor in Army's Deficit of Majors by Ann Scott Tyson....

<h3 class="entry-header"> Fourteen Rules for Advisors in Iraq </h3> by SWJ Editors Fourteen Rules for Advisors in Iraq by Norman Ricklefs, Small Wars Journal Fourteen Rules ...

Report: Contractors Far Outnumber Troops In Iraq A staggering 190,000 contractors were working in Iraq under U.S.-funded contracts as of early 2008 -- far more than the 150,000 troops in the country. The 0B price tag for this shadow army of non-uniformed workers has accounted for 20% of the cost of the war, according to a new report from the ...

Massive US Naval Armada Heads For Iran by Earl of Stirling Global Research , August 11, 2008 europebusines.blogspot.com - 2008-08-07 Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war ...

Pentagon Opens New Spy Shop - by Tom Burghardt - 2008-08-10

The American Military Crisis: Bacevich/Engelhardt

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 24 Hours on the 'Big Stick' - Weekly Standard opinion How to Support the Troops - Boston Globe editorial The Long-Term Costs of War - Intel Dump The Continued Disrespect of Our Armed Forces - Blackfive Speedhawk Challenges Osprey - Danger Room

McCain Politicizes The Military By Floating Petraeus For Vice President In May, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen published a letter to uniformed soldiers warning that " the U.S. military must remain apolitical at all times." Five days later, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was forced to publicly apologize for using a picture of himself with Gen. David Petraeus in campaign fundraising ...