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U.S. Forces Burn Old Copies of the KoranOn The Radar Officials claim it was a misunderstanding when the holy books were discarded. |
Heaviest 2013 Defense Budget Cuts Would Fall on TroopsOn The Radar As the Pentagon sought to show Monday that it had made tough spending decisions in its fiscal 2013 budget proposal, the brunt of the reductions would fall on U.S. ground troops, which face job losses, modest pay raises and increased health care costs while serving in a smaller force. |
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.” |
Unit Leader Among Marines Who Urinated on CorpsesOn The Radar One of the Marines shown urinating on three corpses in Afghanistan in a widely distributed Internet video was the unit's leader, two U.S. military officials have told McClatchy, raising concerns that poor command standards contributed to an incident that may have damaged the U.S. war effort. |
Defense Budget Plan Doesn't Cut as Deeply as Pentagon SaysOn The Radar Pentagon officials unveiled the outlines Thursday of what they called a pared-down defense budget, but their request increases baseline spending beyond the projected end of the Afghan war, even as they plan to reduce ground forces. |
Navy SEALs Rescue 2 Held Captive in SomaliaOn The Radar American commandos dropped into Somalia on Tuesday night to rescue two aid workers who were held hostage, including an American, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. |
In Run-Up to Somalia Raid, Secrecy and Business As UsualOn The Radar President Obama's business-as-usual demeanor as he delivered the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening masked a secret known only to him and a few others in the House chamber. Thousands of miles away, a strike team led by the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 were completing a successful operation to free two Western aid workers, an American and a Dane, held by Somali kidnappers since October. |
