Monat: Juni 2011

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2011 — With the num­ber of geopo­lit­i­cal hotspots in the world today, the Arc­tic is not an area that comes quick­ly to … 

Afghan Nation­al Police and their Aus­tralian Spe­cial Forces part­ners have killed four insur­gents, includ­ing two dis­trict lev­el com­man­ders, dur­ing an oper­a­tion in Uruz­gan on 24 … 

MINOT, N.D., June 27, 2011 — When flood­wa­ters back up city water and san­i­ta­tion sys­tems and make the water unsafe to drink, res­i­dents can quickly … 

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2011 — A com­bined Afghan and coali­tion secu­ri­ty force cap­tured a Tal­iban leader dur­ing an overnight secu­ri­ty oper­a­tion in the Nahr‑e Saraj … 

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Remarks by Pres­i­dent Her­man Van Rompuy on the occa­sion of the polit­i­cal agree­ment on the acces­sion of Croa­t­ia We are pleased to wel­come Prime Minister … 

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2011 — Defense Sec­re­tary Robert M. Gates has served for four-and-a-half years — longer than all but four of his predecessors — … 

This week the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard announced a decrease in acti­vat­ed reservists, while the Marine Corps and Air Force announced an increase. The … 

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2011 — The whole time Robert M. Gates has served as defense sec­re­tary, the nation has been at war on two fronts. … 

WASHINGTON, June 23, 2011 — When he first took office, Defense Sec­re­tary Robert M. Gates had no inten­tion of chang­ing the cul­ture of the Defense … 

WASHINGTON — Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma con­sid­ered the mil­i­tary impli­ca­tions of a draw­down in Afghanistan, as well as broad­er con­sid­er­a­tions, in decid­ing to remove surge forces … 

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 24, 2011 — A com­bined Afghan and coali­tion secu­ri­ty force killed two insur­gents and detained sev­er­al sus­pects yes­ter­day while search­ing for a … 

AIR FORCE The Boe­ing Co., Long Beach, Calif., is being award­ed a $258,335,789 mod­i­fi­ca­tion to a fixed-price award fee con­tract to exer­cise the fis­cal 2011, … 

Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary for Defence Sen­a­tor David Feeney wel­comed today’s open­ing of the Roy­al Aus­tralian Navy’s new $18 mil­lion train­ing facil­i­ty at HMAS Creswell, Jervis Bay. 

Joint Press Release The Sta­bil­i­sa­tion and Asso­ci­a­tion Coun­cil (SA Coun­cil) between the Euro­pean Union and Mon­tene­gro held its sec­ond meet­ing on 21 June 2011 in … 

Min­is­ter for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced that 39 M2A2 How­itzer Guns will be made avail­able to RSL clubs and his­tor­i­cal organ­i­sa­tions around the …