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  • Fordyce Maxwell: 'War is hellish, people die in huge numbers and lessons go unlearned' 22 Nov 2009 01:31 GMT
    ... Service, the nearest I came to a military career was when in last term panic ... I thought about applying for a short-term Army commission. "Join us, get a lovely uniform, ... soldier", and with every reported fatality from Afghanistan I think about how I would have ...

  • Tories to cut troop levels in Germany 22 Nov 2009 00:31 GMT
    ... the Conservatives win the general election. Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox said it was "no ... maintain the presence of more than 20,000 military personnel there. Ending the commitment would free ... what they do and don't do in Afghanistan, it's more important that we have more ...

  • INTERVIEW: Pakistan foreign minister claims India supports insurgents 22 Nov 2009 01:33 GMT
    ... supporting insurgents in Pakistan, including areas bordering Afghanistan. Speaking with the German Press Agency dpa, ... as by retaliatory actions by the country's military and paramilitary troops. Pakistani military and civilian ... Pakistani Information Minister Qamara-uz-Zaman Kaira and an army spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas, told reporters ...

  • 10 pregnant servicewomen sent home 22 Nov 2009 00:13 GMT
    ... Ten British servicewomen on operations in Afghanistan have been sent back to the UK ... 31 and October 31 this year under military rules which ban pregnant women from being ... the Sunday Mirror by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). An MoD spokeswoman said: "All our ...

  • Princes found own charitable foundation 22 Nov 2009 00:31 GMT
    ... foundation with a focus on assisting the war wounded, it was announced yesterday. The charity ... with the welfare of members of the military, especially those returning with horrific injuries from Afghanistan, has delighted the Queen, who is the ...

  • Eradicating polio 22 Nov 2009 01:17 GMT
    ... one of the final frontiers where the war against polio is being fought. This crippling ... in just four countries - India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. In 1985 Rotary International spearheaded ... 1% to go and so a huge army of volunteers have been mobilised to help and ...

  • UK's Conservatives want army pull-out from Germany 21 Nov 2009 18:50 GMT
    ... UK's Conservatives want army pull-out from Germany * Opposition calls for ... Fox told the Daily Telegraph Britain's 25,000-strong military presence on the Rhine "wasn't necessary" any ... said. Britain currently has 9,000 troops in Afghanistan in a NATO force fighting Taliban insurgents. ...

  • Military Planes to Fly Out of Maine as Last Base Closes 21 Nov 2009 15:57 GMT
    ... in the closing of the last active-duty military air base in New England. "It's a ... Brunswick Naval Air Station opened during World War II to train British and Canadian pilots. ... they've flown missions over Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. The base saw its heyday during the ...

  • Kabul plans to boost troop levels 21 Nov 2009 09:06 GMT
    ... need to continue until the transition to Afghan control was complete. "My argument is we ... UK prime minister, has defended his country's military mission amid waning public support. He said ... police say. Sayyaf was travelling north of Kabul when a remote-controlled bomb struck his convoy ...

  • Setting Afghan exit date defeatist: defense panel 21 Nov 2009 21:32 GMT
    ... Setting Afghan exit date defeatist: defense panel US Marines ... a patrol with soldiers of Afghan National Army in Lakari in Helmand Province. Despite fierce ... United States and a puppet regime (in Kabul) and we're going to chase the Americans out ...

  • Afghan police weaken nation 21 Nov 2009 05:37 GMT
    ... KABUL -- Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link ... police you have for the army," said military analyst Anthony Cordesman. "The leadership within the ...

  • Afghan police force is weak link for country 21 Nov 2009 08:47 GMT
    ... An Afghan policeman adjusts his colleague's weapon at a ... his colleague's weapon at a checkpoint in Kabul. Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is underpaid and ... police you have for the army," said military analyst Anthony Cordesman. "The leadership within the ...

  • Afghan police are weak link in security force 21 Nov 2009 00:12 GMT
    ... this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 photo, An Afghan policeman adjust his colleagues weapon at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan. Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member ... police you have for the army," said military analyst Anthony Cordesman. "The leadership within the ...

  • Tories Would Pull British Troops From Germany 21 Nov 2009 07:15 GMT
    ... for good under Conservative plans to "recast" defence policy if they win the next General ... focus on operations outside Europe, like the Afghan conflict The shadow defence secretary said it ... longer necessary" to have more than 20,000 military personnel in the country nearly 70 years ...

  • "Afghan government would fall if Nato pulls out" -- Miliband 21 Nov 2009 10:59 GMT
    ... LONDON, Nov 21 (KUNA) -- The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato ... at the end of a visit to Kabul for the presidential inauguration of Hamid Karzai, ... officials at the headquarters of the international military effort, Miliband said that Afghans were "sad ...


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