HOUSE COMMITTEE EXAMINES TILLMAN FRATRICIDE IN WASHINGTON
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew," on Capitol Hill in Washington on August 1, 2007. Pat Tillman, a former NFL football player, was killed on April 22, 2004 in a "friendly fire" incident while serving in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion in Afghanistan. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- How is the U.S. national interest in Iraq to be defined? It is obviously in the American national interest to end its involvement in a long-running, extremely expensive and exhausting counterinsurgency war that has now lasted longer than more than six years. That is two and a half years longer than the total U.S. involvement in World War II.
WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- The two conventional land wars that were fought in the Northern Hemisphere over the past year were both small ones, almost tiny in geographical range and short in duration.
WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- Wars are costly, messy things. They are never efficient and only very seldom elegant. Larger wars between major industrial powers, of course, destroy lots of weapons systems as well as lots of people. That is why major powers still need lots of soldiers and lots of relatively cheap, easily manufactured and easily replaced weapons systems.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- The current democratic government in Iraq supported by U.S. forces, whatever its many weaknesses, is still there, with no viable alternative produced by the insurrectionists in sight.
WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- No one in the Obama administration denies the reality of war and conflict in the 21st century, but there is widespread aspiration and hope, led by President Barack Obama himself, that, as Winston Churchill said: "Jaw, jaw is better than war, war."
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- There's one thing that Bush administration Republicans and Obama administration Democrats agree on when it comes to national security issues: The day of major land wars between major industrialized states is over.
WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Russian and NATO leaders have very different conceptions on the future nature of modern war --and the Russian ideas seem to be grounded in a lot more realism.
WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- Former White House and military officials say ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's arrogance helped derail the presidency of George W. Bush.
WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- As the first decade of the 21st century ends, the European member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are moving in a somewhat leisurely manner to modernize their already technically advanced weaponry with more high-tech systems. But they are making no moves to increase the size of their military establishments.
