Bellona – Controversy surrounds an explosion that aboard a Delta III class ballistic missile submarine two weeks ago.
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Daily Archives: November 29, 2004
US Marines – Marines Widen Their Net South of Baghdad
Washington Post – With the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Babil province, where they are fighting the Islamic Army in Iraq.
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Iraq – Rumsfeld's War – Interview with Douglas Macgregor
PBS Frontline – A tank commander in Desert Storm and currently a Senior Military Fellow at the Institute of National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, Col. Douglas MacGregor (U.S. Army-Ret.) is a well-known maverick in the military establishment and the author of Breaking the Phalanx, a book on how to reform the Army. Donald Rumsfeld read some of his ideas and as the Pentagon was formulating its war plan, he was invited to consult with military officials. “They brought me in and said: ‘We’re looking at Iraq. The chief of staff of the Army says it will take at least 560,000 troops.’ Well, of course I burst out laughing immediately, because those are more troops than we have in the active component. Secondly, the Iraqi enemy was always so weak. Why would you want that many forces?”
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Terrorism – The Long Hunt for Osama
The Atlantic – Where has he been? How did we ever let him get away? Peter Bergen is one of the few Western journalists ever to have met Osama bin Laden and he traces the al-Qaeda leader’s footsteps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and describes the sometimes hapless American pursuit.
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