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| 1 | NATO supports Afghan plan | Nation and World |
| BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Defense ministers from NATO on Friday endorsed the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan proposed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, giving new impetus to his proposal to pour more troops into the war. McChrystal, the senior U.S. | ||
| 10/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Report: U.S. grows as top arms supplier | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world's leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new congressional study. | ||
| 9/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Adm. Mullen: U.S. not living up to message | Nation and World |
| The critique by Adm. Mike Mullen is particularly relevant as the Obama administration orders fresh efforts to counter militant propaganda, part of its broader strategy to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. | ||
| 8/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | 2 Russian subs off East Coast | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the United States in recent days, a rare mission that has raised concerns inside the Pentagon and intelligence agencies about a more assertive stance by the Russian military. | ||
| 8/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Afghanistan tests NATO alliance as it fetes 60th year | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — NATO leaders will meet in Strasbourg, France, today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of an alliance that deterred the Soviet Union, opened the door to emerging democracies, battled ethnic cleansing and now welcomes the return of France as a full member. | ||
| 4/3/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | U.S.: Iran has essentials to make atomic bomb | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The United States now believes Iran has amassed enough uranium that with further purification could be used to build an atomic bomb, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared Sunday. The statement by Adm. | ||
| 3/2/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | New Afghan policy: war over development | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — President Obama intends to adopt a tougher line toward Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, as part of a new American approach to Afghanistan that will put more emphasis on waging war than on development, senior administration officials said Tuesday. | ||
| 1/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | New Afghan supply route planned by U.S., NATO | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The United States and NATO plan to open and expand supply lines through Central Asia to deliver fuel, food and other goods to a military mission in Afghanistan that is expected to grow by tens of thousands of troops in the months ahead, according to U.S. | ||
| 12/31/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Pentagon expects cutbacks | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — After years of unfettered growth in military budgets, Defense Department planners, top commanders and weapons manufacturers now say they are almost certain that the financial meltdown will have a serious impact on future Pentagon spending. | ||
| 11/3/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | U.S. stretching out the war zone with attack in Syrian territory | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — A raid into Syria on Sunday by U.S. Special Operations forces killed an Iraqi militant responsible for smuggling weapons, money and foreign fighters across the border into Iraq, U.S. officials said Monday. In justifying the attack, U.S. | ||
| 10/28/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | ICBM launches are a part of resurgent Russian war games | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — As they tracked Russian military maneuvers in recent days, the U.S. government's career Kremlin-watchers might have been forgiven for wondering if they were seeing recycled newsreels from the worst of the bad old days. | ||
| 10/20/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | U.S. Iraq pullout tentatively set for 2011 | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — An accord between Iraq and the United States would set the end of 2011 as a concrete date for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, according to a draft of the agreement. U.S. | ||
| 10/18/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | U.S. puts a military focus on Africa | Nation and World |
| Responsibilities for U.S. military affairs across the vast African continent were divided clumsily among three regional combat headquarters, those for Europe, the Pacific and the Middle East. | ||
| 10/5/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Growing alarm spurs Poles to take missiles | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The United States and Poland on Thursday reached a long-stalled deal to place a missile-defense facility on Polish soil, in the strongest reaction yet to Russia's military operation in Georgia. | ||
| 8/15/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | More lesbians discharged in 2007 | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The Army and Air Force discharged a disproportionate number of women in 2007 under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibits openly gay people from serving in the military, according to Pentagon statistics gathered by an advocacy group. | ||
| 6/23/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Frustrated Gates reveals battles within military | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — For the past 16 months as defense secretary, Robert Gates has emphasized the positive in trying to repair relations between senior military officers and their civilian masters at the Pentagon and the White House. | ||
| 4/24/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Yardstick for Iraq pullout more elusive than ever | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The recommendation by the top U.S. commander in Iraq to suspend troop reductions reflects a bleak assessment that Iraqi forces remain unprepared to take over the mission of securing their nation, senior administration and military officials said Wednesday. | ||
| 4/10/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Long, multiple deployments are alarming Army leaders | Health and Family |
| WASHINGTON — Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent back to the front again and again under plans that call for troop numbers to be sustained at high levels in Iraq for this year and beyond. | ||
| 4/6/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Fear of failure prompts Afghan mission review | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Deeply concerned about the prospect of failure in Afghanistan, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews of the entire mission, from security and counterterrorism to political consolidation and economic development, according to U.S. | ||
| 12/16/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Russia suspends arms-control treaty | Nation and World |
| MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin formally notified NATO governments on Saturday that Russia would suspend its obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, a major Cold War-era arms-limitation agreement, in response to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe. | ||
| 7/15/2007 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||