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U.S. General Prepared for Iranian AggressionOn The Radar Iran accused of plotting car bomb attacks against diplomats in India, Georgia. |
Panetta Surprises Afghans, NATO With Earlier Date for End of Combat MissionOn The Radar Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s comment while en route to a NATO conference in Brussels -- that the U.S. would end its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2013, a year earlier than thought -- surprised key U.S. allies, alarmed many Afghans, and forced the White House to spend more than a day trying to walk it back. |
White House Scrambles to Ease Fallout from Panetta's Afghanistan CommentsOn The Radar The Obama administration scrambled Thursday to tamp down the fallout out from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement that the United States would end its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier than expected — a revelation that heightened confusion over U.S. strategy and stoked Afghan distrust of American intentions. |
Romney Criticizes Afghan Pullout Plan, but Obama Is Eager for the DebateOn The Radar It did not take long for Mitt Romney to pounce on Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta’s statement Wednesday that American troops could end their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013, 18 months sooner than expected. Within hours, Mr. Romney lambasted it as “naïve” and “misguided.” |
Panetta: U.S. to Wind Down Combat Mission in Afghanistan Next YearOn The Radar Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that the U.S.-led NATO coalition would end its combat role in Afghanistan next year, the clearest indication yet that the Obama administration is accelerating its plans to wind down the long and unpopular Afghan war. “Hopefully by mid- to the latter part of 2013, we’ll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advise, and assist role,” The Washington Post said Panetta told reporters accompanying him to Brussels. |
French Troop Deaths Spark Worry over Afghan Training MissionOn The Radar The killings of four French troops Friday by an Afghan soldier they were training has renewed concerns — a decade into the training mission — that Afghans are growing increasingly disdainful of the U.S.-led coalition forces ostensibly there to help them and are striking back. |
President Cuts Defense SpendingOn The Radar New strategy relies less on ground troops and more on naval forces, air power. |
A Long Goodbye to AfghanistanOn The Radar This week, the last convoy of U.S. troops in Iraq drove noisily across the border into Kuwait and shut the gate behind them. The next drawdown comes in Afghanistan, where American forces are scheduled to disengage from most combat by the end of 2014. But the Afghanistan withdrawal won't be anywhere near as final as the one we just saw. U.S. military leaders are working on a new slimmed-down strategy that would keep some American troops in combat against the Taliban for years to come, long after 2014. |
Out of Iraq: The Last ConvoyOn The Radar ABC's Martha Raddatz's final journey out of Iraq with the last troops to leave. |
An Elusive Victory in IraqOn The Radar With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was the nearly nine-year mission a success? Iraq is still struggling even to ensure its own security. Its air force has no jet fighters, and U.S. officials say it would be unable to detect incoming aircraft in time to stop them. The Iraqi army is improving, but its ability to mount complex operations remains weak. The Iraqis still have a long way to go on intelligence, training and logistics. |
