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"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand."
"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand."
-- Sun Tzu
News of Note:
Army leaders honor Iraq task force
Abu Ghraib Trials:
Soldier gets six months in Abu Ghraib case
Woman convicted in Abu Ghraib scandal apologizes for abusing Iraqi prisoners
War on Terror:
U.S. detains Cuban linked to 1976 bombing
In Iraq:
Iranian minister makes historic Iraq trip
20 Iraqi militants killed in Mosul clash
Soldier's Goal: Clean Water for Baghdad — Story
In Afghanistan:
U.S. Troops Adopt Kids Near Charikar — Story
U.N. Oil-For-Food Scandal:
British lawmaker lashes out at senators
British MP rebuts Iraq claims, takes on Senate
Newsweek Controversy:
White House: Newsweek story did great harm
Newsweek Says MistakesWere Made in 'Good Faith'
Official Debunks Koran Desecration Story — Story
JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
GOP showcases two controversial judges
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Young Israelis protest Gaza pullout
Palestinian court orders local revote
Spy Pollard denounces ambassador's visit
Katu.com
US troops clash with militants in Mosul; Shiite, Sunni clerics shot dead in Baghdad
Flight diverted...Militant detained in US
Man arrested for falsely reporting relative to FBI as terrorist
The US News: Iraq News
HSBC near deal on Iraqi bank takeover
Iraqi government vows to crack down as more bodies found
Iraq's al Qaeda warns Sunnis against constitution
Fox News
Iran Nuke Talks to Resume
Lasers to Aid Airspace Safety
Koreas Talks Extended
Judicial Debate to Start
Man Charged With Accusing Relative of Being Al Qaeda
U.S. Detains Cuban Exile After Protests Demand Arrest
Iran, Iraq Hold Security Talks
Mexican Gov't Issues Apology
British Pol Berates Congress, U.S.
Department of Defense
ID System to Improve Force Protection — Story
ON THE GROUND
Civil Affairs Gunners Protect Convoys — Story
Soldiers, Marines Defuse Explosive Situation — Story
IN IRAQ
Caldwell Air Medics Respond to Injured Soldier
Coalition Aircraft Support Troops in Operation Matador
IN AFGHANISTAN
A-10 Unit Continues 'Flying Tiger' Legacy
IN PERSIAN GULF
CENTCOM Commander Visits USS Carl Vinson
Chef Mentors USS Kearsarge Culinary Specialists
FACE OF DEFENSE
Going on Tour Takes on New Meaning for Marine — Story
HOMECOMING
Army Leaders Salute Task Force Danger
Marine 'Tomcats' Finish Deployment, Return to Yuma
AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Celebrities Visit Camp Fallujah — Story
Auction Helps Wounded Troops
Indiana School Supports Troops
TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Base Realignment and Closure 2005
IN IRAQ
Official: Desecration Story 'False'
IED Kills U.S. Soldier
Iraqi Army Opens Headquarters
Two Kirkuk Rail Stations Rebuilt
Soldiers Target Terrorists
Rice: 'Intensify' Political Process
Operation Matador Ends
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
IN AFGHANISTAN
Roadside Bomb Kills Afghan Troops
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting
WAR ON TERRORISM
Counterterrorism Focus: Africa
Chertoff Visits USNORTHCOM
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base
MILITARY NEWS
Chairman Describes BRAC Process
Navy, Marines Support Proposals
BRAC Will Reshape Air Force
Rumsfeld: BRAC Necessary
Medical Team Trains to Deploy
National Guard, Reserve Update
CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty — Story
Weather
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Iraq
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Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar
Today in History
1096 - Crusaders massacre Jews at Worm.
1631 - John Winthrop is elected as the first governor of Massachusetts.
1652 - Rhode Island enacts the first law declaring slavery illegal.
1756 - England declares war on France.
1803 - England declares war on France...again.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France.
1830 - Edwin Budding signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower.
1860 - The Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for presiden.
1861 - Battle of Sewall's Point, VA (The first Federal offense against the CSA).
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, MS.
1864 - Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize / Old Oaks).
1896 - The U.S. Supreme court affirms the "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v. Ferguson).
1910 - The passage of Earth through the tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic .
1916 - U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down a German aircraft.
1917 - The U.S. passes the Selective Service Act.
1934 - Congress approves the "Lindbergh Act", making kidnapping a capital offense.
1940 - German troops conquer Brussels.
1941 - The Italian army surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia; Jewish veterans honor their dead.
1942 - New York City ends night baseball games for the rest of WWII.
1943 - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria.
1944 - The USSR begins the expulsion of more than 200,000 accused of collaborating with the Germans; the Polish 2nd Army corps captures Monte Cassino.
1948 - The Arab Legion captures the fort on Mount Scopus; Saudi Arabia joins the invasion of Israel.
1951 - The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York City.
1953 - American Jacqueline Cochrane becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. 1954 - The European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect.
1964 - The Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to their home country for more than 3 years.
1967 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law", upheld in the 1925 Scopes Trial.
1969 - Apollo 10 is launched.
1974 - India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1977 - Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister.
1980 - China launches its first intercontinental rocket; Mount Saint Helens erupts, kiling 60.
1983 - The Senate revises immigration laws, giving millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program.
1986 - South African troops occupy Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
1991 - The USSR launches two cosmonauts to MIR.
Birthdays
1798 - Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Union Major General
1817 - James William Denver, Union Brigadier General
1850 - Oliver Heaviside, physicist; predicted the existence of the ionosphere
1868 - Nicholas II, last Czar of Russia
1901 - Vincent du Vigneaud, U.S. biochemist
1907 - Robley D. Evans, nuclear physicist
1917 - Charles Wintour, journalist
1929 - Johan N. Block, aviation pioneer
1930 - Don Leslie Lind, astronaut (STS 51-B), Warren B. Rudman (Senator-NH)
1952 - Martin R. Hoke (Representative-OH)
1954 - Martyn Wiley, writer / broadcaster
Passings
323 - Alexander III (the Great), King of Macedonia /conqueror
1862 - William H. Keim, Union Brigadier General, in battle
1864 - James Byron Gordon Confederate Brigadier General
1949 - James T. Adams, US historian, Pulitzer prize winner
1967 - Andy Clyde, Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first Congresswoman
1987 - Wilbur J Cohen, first employee of the Social Security System
Reported Missing in Action
1965
Hrdlicka, David L., USAF (CO); photo published July, 1966
Tavares, John R., Civilian - merchant seaman; Last seen in Da Nang bar
1966
Guillet, Andre R., USAF (CT)
Harley, Lee D., USAF (VA)
Moore, William J., USAF (IL)
Wall, Jerry M., USAF (TX)
1967
Cameron, Kenneth R., USAF (CA); Died in captivity October, 1970; Remains returned March, 1974
DeLong, Joe L. US ARMY (TN); reportedly died in captivity November, 1967
Naughton, Robert J., USN (IA); Released by DRV March, 1973
1968
Gist, Tommy Emerson, USAF (OK)
James, Charlie N. , USN (CA); Released by DRV March, 1973
Monroe, Vincent D., USN (NJ); Remains returned August, 1978
Padilla, David E., USMC (TX)
Uyeyama, Terry J., USAF (NJ); Released by DRV March, 1973
1969
Cudlike, Charles J., US ARMY (MI)
1971
Entrican, Danny D., US ARMY SF (MS)
1972
Bednarek, Johnathan B., USAF (NY); Remains returned May, 1989
Ratzel, Wesley D., USAF (PA); No-show at POW camp; Remains returned May, 1989
Today in History
1096 - Crusaders massacre Jews at Worm.
1631 - John Winthrop is elected as the first governor of Massachusetts.
1652 - Rhode Island enacts the first law declaring slavery illegal.
1756 - England declares war on France.
1803 - England declares war on France...again.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France.
1830 - Edwin Budding signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower.
1860 - The Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for presiden.
1861 - Battle of Sewall's Point, VA (The first Federal offense against the CSA).
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, MS.
1864 - Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize / Old Oaks).
1896 - The U.S. Supreme court affirms the "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v. Ferguson).
1910 - The passage of Earth through the tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic .
1916 - U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down a German aircraft.
1917 - The U.S. passes the Selective Service Act.
1934 - Congress approves the "Lindbergh Act", making kidnapping a capital offense.
1940 - German troops conquer Brussels.
1941 - The Italian army surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia; Jewish veterans honor their dead.
1942 - New York City ends night baseball games for the rest of WWII.
1943 - Allied bombers attack Pantelleria.
1944 - The USSR begins the expulsion of more than 200,000 accused of collaborating with the Germans; the Polish 2nd Army corps captures Monte Cassino.
1948 - The Arab Legion captures the fort on Mount Scopus; Saudi Arabia joins the invasion of Israel.
1951 - The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York City.
1953 - American Jacqueline Cochrane becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. 1954 - The European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect.
1964 - The Supreme Court rules it unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to their home country for more than 3 years.
1967 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law", upheld in the 1925 Scopes Trial.
1969 - Apollo 10 is launched.
1974 - India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1977 - Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister.
1980 - China launches its first intercontinental rocket; Mount Saint Helens erupts, kiling 60.
1983 - The Senate revises immigration laws, giving millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program.
1986 - South African troops occupy Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
1991 - The USSR launches two cosmonauts to MIR.
Birthdays
1798 - Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Union Major General
1817 - James William Denver, Union Brigadier General
1850 - Oliver Heaviside, physicist; predicted the existence of the ionosphere
1868 - Nicholas II, last Czar of Russia
1901 - Vincent du Vigneaud, U.S. biochemist
1907 - Robley D. Evans, nuclear physicist
1917 - Charles Wintour, journalist
1929 - Johan N. Block, aviation pioneer
1930 - Don Leslie Lind, astronaut (STS 51-B), Warren B. Rudman (Senator-NH)
1952 - Martin R. Hoke (Representative-OH)
1954 - Martyn Wiley, writer / broadcaster
Passings
323 - Alexander III (the Great), King of Macedonia /conqueror
1862 - William H. Keim, Union Brigadier General, in battle
1864 - James Byron Gordon Confederate Brigadier General
1949 - James T. Adams, US historian, Pulitzer prize winner
1967 - Andy Clyde, Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first Congresswoman
1987 - Wilbur J Cohen, first employee of the Social Security System
Reported Missing in Action
1965
Hrdlicka, David L., USAF (CO); photo published July, 1966
Tavares, John R., Civilian - merchant seaman; Last seen in Da Nang bar
1966
Guillet, Andre R., USAF (CT)
Harley, Lee D., USAF (VA)
Moore, William J., USAF (IL)
Wall, Jerry M., USAF (TX)
1967
Cameron, Kenneth R., USAF (CA); Died in captivity October, 1970; Remains returned March, 1974
DeLong, Joe L. US ARMY (TN); reportedly died in captivity November, 1967
Naughton, Robert J., USN (IA); Released by DRV March, 1973
1968
Gist, Tommy Emerson, USAF (OK)
James, Charlie N. , USN (CA); Released by DRV March, 1973
Monroe, Vincent D., USN (NJ); Remains returned August, 1978
Padilla, David E., USMC (TX)
Uyeyama, Terry J., USAF (NJ); Released by DRV March, 1973
1969
Cudlike, Charles J., US ARMY (MI)
1971
Entrican, Danny D., US ARMY SF (MS)
1972
Bednarek, Johnathan B., USAF (NY); Remains returned May, 1989
Ratzel, Wesley D., USAF (PA); No-show at POW camp; Remains returned May, 1989
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