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Early next year, the 1st Battalion will take their Camp Blanding training to the Middle Eastern desert After months of training, more than 600 members of Florida National Guard's 1st Battalion will be mobilized Jan. 2, ship out...
Fewer than half of Iowans approve of President Barack Obama’s performance in office a year after he carried the state in the 2008 election, according to The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll. But they are also a warning to Obama...
Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. No, he does not have the power to stop the melting of glaciers, but he has pioneered a solution by creating artificial...
“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica,...
It took Pakistan a lot of blood sweat and tears to build the best highway system in South Asia. Pakistani motorways were built to European specifications and were meant for Pakistan and Pakistanis. The Indus Highway meanders on...
I am posting from the subterranean lair of the Wife’s stepmother. The hair on my tongue grows thick from far too much bourbon consumed last night. Liberal application of pad thai and curry has brought me around, but friends...
With 5 percent of the world's population and the bulk of the world's oil and gas, the Arab world nonetheless lags behind most of the rest of the world and suffers from what can best be termed "educational poverty." Even before...
Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 14:28 IST Tags: Kabul: Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the...
When we think about the countries of the world, often stereotypes spring to mind. Journalist Robert Rand found himself in Uzbekistan as a trailing spouse, for his wife was posted to work in Tashkent for the United Nations....
The Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, is expected to announce a £3.5bn helicopter building programme early this week. The Vision 2020 document will detail plans for 120 aircraft to be ordered over a 10-year period. A...
