The Sri Lankan military continued its attacks against the separatist north, yesterday alone killing 52 civilians and wounding around 80. At this point the offensive is confined to the last roughly 30 square miles of coastal land left to be conquered, but as the...
In the wake of a roadside bombing, African Union (AU) forces from Uganda opened fire on a crowd of innocent civilians in southern Mogadishu, killing 39 of them. One of the AU vehicles was damaged by the bomb which provoked the attack. Outraged over the killings, the...
At a press conference today in Moscow, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev announced that the decision has been made to close a US military air base in the country. The two nations had been in negotiations over the amount paid by the US to use the base, and Bakiyev...
Much has been made of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and their increasing control over the Swat Valley. The Pakistani military has been shelling the area, killing scores of civilians and promising to eventually reconquer the region. But the problem of...
The Pine Bluff Arsenal, a United States Army installation in Arkansas, specializes in chemical and biological weapons. The military touts them as the only facility in the Northern Hemisphere which fills white phosphorus munitions. That's the important point here, as...
The situation in Afghanistan is bad. How bad? The head of the US military is warning against a comparison between Afghanistan and Vietnam because "Afghanistan is much more complex." The policy recommendations keep coming in as the Obama Administration plans its...
Keeping a nation out of war is usually something to emphasize in elections: in Israel, where the nation has gone over two weeks without much in the way of military conflict it is the end of the war rather than the beginning which is seen as undermining the ruling...
As President Obama continues in earnest with his promised military "surge" in Afghanistan, which will double the number of American forces on the ground, it was expected that NATO would enhance its commitment to the seven year long military commitment as well. That...
Joints Chiefs Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen warned that people should be "pretty careful" about making comparisons between the current military quagmire in Afghanistan and the previous American military quagmire in Vietnam. According to Mullen, "Afghanistan is much...
Reports have been swirling around for the past several days that the United States has been holding high-level but discreet talks with Iran even as the Obama Administration has publicly dismissed rumors of any official efforts to improve relations. Now, Iran too is...
