by Sonja Elmquist | Jul 21, 2010 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s planned national climate service will equip decision-makers with hard facts about long-term environmental changes instead of long-term research, the service’s provisional director said Wednesday. “There’s a purpose to what we’re...
by Sonja Elmquist | Jul 14, 2010 | National Security
WASHINGTON –Special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday that the Afghan government is on schedule to take over some civil and security functions in time for a planned U.S. military withdrawal next...
by Sonja Elmquist | Jul 8, 2010 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Thursday recommended Gen. James N. Mattis for command of U.S. forces in the Middle East, North Africa and the Arabian Gulf, including Iraq and Afghanistan, to replace Gen. David Petraeus, who last week assumed command of...
by Sonja Elmquist | Jun 30, 2010 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – A day after Gen. David Petraeus assured the Senate Armed Services Committee that a July 2011 timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan sends a crucial “message of urgency,” another a fellow counterinsurgency expert said the perception of a set...
