Jan 17 Watch Ex-NATO Commander Calls for More Troops in Afghanistan The United States and Britain are considering deploying more troops to Afghanistan as other NATO countries have failed to send additional forces. Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, former top commander of NATO forces, discusses the possibility of increasing NATO troops. Continue watching
Jan 17 U.N. Agencies Say Aid Efforts in Darfur Could Collapse By PBS News Hour Fifteen U.N. agencies warned Wednesday that their relief operations in the volatile Darfur region of Sudan may collapse unless the government and rebel groups end the violence there. Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch Pickup Truck Takes Its Place in Rural American Culture NewsHour guest essayist Allen Morris Jones talks about a symbol of rural America, the pickup truck. Continue watching
Jan 12 Watch Iraq War Veterans Respond To President’s New Strategy President Bush's proposal to add more than 20,000 troops to the U.S. effort in Iraq has received mixed reactions from military experts and lawmakers. Two Iraq war veterans share their military views on the plans and whether more troops will… Continue watching
Jan 11 Watch Plan to Increase Troop Numbers Comes Under Broad Scrutiny The proposed influx of more than 20,000 American troops in Iraq will change the composition of the U.S.-led operation. Middle East experts Zbigniew Brzezinski and Walter Russell Mead survey the current situation and discuss the implications of increasing troop numbers. Continue watching
Jan 10 President Bush Outlines New Strategy for Iraq By Admin, PBS News Hour Asking Americans for their patience, sacrifice and resolve, President Bush laid out a new plan Wednesday night for U.S. military strategy in Iraq. Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch U.S. Troops Clash With Insurgents in Baghdad A day after a deadly skirmish between U.S. soldiers and Iraqi insurgents in downtown Baghdad, Iraqi militants were arrested in conjunction with the firefight. The New York Times' Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns reports on the violence and security situation… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch Retired Generals Analyze President’s Iraq Plan Retired army Lieutenant General William Odom, who worked on the pacification program during the Vietnam War, and retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor, who had two combat tours in Vietnam and one in Korea, analyze the President's new policy… Continue watching
Jan 10 Watch Senators Discuss New Iraq Military Strategy President Bush unveiled a new Iraq stragey that emphasizes security by increasing the number of U.S. troops in the region. Senator Jim Webb, D-Va., and Senatory John Thune, R-S.D., discuss the ramifications of the President's new plan. Continue watching
Jan 09 Sunni-Shiite Power Struggle Driving Iraq Violence By PBS News Hour In December 2006, the Pentagon reported that violence in Iraq had hit at an all-time high. Between August and November, attacks against U.S. forces, Iraqi security forces and Iraqi civilians increased nearly 30 percent, to an average of 959 per… Continue reading