Archive for the 'War' Category
Obama Orders 17,000 U.S. Troops to Afghanistan
February 18th, 2009Via: Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama, in his first major military decision as commander-in-chief, has ordered 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan to tackle an intensifying insurgency, the White House said on Tuesday. But in an interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Obama also said military means alone would not solve the problem. U.S. officials have […]
U.S. AIR FORCE INITIATES VOLUNTARY RECALL OF RETIRED OFFICERS
February 17th, 2009Now we’re talkin’… Via: Military.com: RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFRNS) — The rapid expansion of unmanned aircraft systems and other emerging missions and rated officer requirements has created an Air Force demand for experienced, rated officers. To meet these critical shortages, the secretary of the Air Force has initiated a Voluntary Retired Rated Recall […]
U.S. Military Preparing for “Violent, Strategic Dislocation Inside the United States”; Possibly from “Economic Collapse”
February 17th, 2009Via: TruthDig: The specter of social unrest was raised at the U.S. Army War College in November in a monograph [click on Policypointers’ pdf link to see the report] titled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development.” The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United […]
Biggest Fraud Ever: Iraq “Reconstruction”
February 17th, 2009Fraud. Top to bottom fraud, as we already knew. Via Independent: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of […]
Top Mexico Drug Cop Charged with Working for Cartel
February 16th, 2009For your News-Not-News file folder. Via: Reuters: The former head of Mexico’s special organized crime bureau has been charged with selling information to one of the country’s most powerful drug cartels, the attorney general’s office said on Sunday. Noe Ramirez, who stepped down as chief of the SIEDO federal investigation unit in July last year, […]
Thousands of Guns U.S. Sent to Afghanistan Are Missing
February 13th, 2009Mmm hmm. See: NATO Forces Supplied Food, Water and Arms to Taliban Forces in Southern Afghanistan Via: CNN: More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan’s government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday. The U.S. military failed to “maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons […]
Army Suicides in January Outnumbered Combat Deaths
February 12th, 2009Via: Alternet: The U.S. Army recently reported that for the month of January in 2009, the number of soldiers who committed suicide surpassed the number of soldiers who were killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. While there were 16 U.S. combat deaths, the Army believes that there were 24 suicides (the Army has confirmed […]
Orbital Collision: Please Pick Up the Nearest Black Courtesy Phone
February 12th, 2009So, an Iridium satellite just happened to collide with a defunct Russian military satellite… You’re about to learn how the sausage gets made, and, before we begin, you should know that it’s not pretty. I don’t know the whole story about Iridium, but it has got to be one of the spookiest tales of them […]
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
February 12th, 2009UPDATE: Contest Results The target was a picture of my ancient, tattered Audio Technica headphones sitting on the concrete floor. There were no direct hits, but 9 of 13 submissions had something to do with round things. For days, it looked like Evil Chopsticks was going to be the closest one, since he or she […]
Mexico Drug Gangs Threaten Cops on Radio, Then Kill Them
February 10th, 2009Where are the slingshots? Via: Reuters: Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border are breaking into police radio frequencies to issue chilling death threats to cops which they then carry out, demoralizing security forces in a worsening drug war. “You’re next, bastard … We’re going to get you,” an unidentified drug gang member said over […]
