Military - July 2007

2007-07-17 03:51:18 · 3 answers · asked by Bella Luna 3

some how i think you well say no...

2007-07-17 03:40:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know that a lot of playful banter goes on, sometimes ore serious than others, but are there any particular forces/ regiments/ roles that really, actually don't see eye-to-eye?

PS, I realise there will in most cases be respect underneath the horseplay, of course.

2007-07-17 03:29:21 · 15 answers · asked by Gregory 1

If so, could you tell me about it? Thanks.

2007-07-17 03:10:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-17 03:09:32 · 23 answers · asked by heisrob 1

Why is it that I see a lot of people on here (mostly liberals) who pity our troops? Why do they always assume that our troops are brainwashed and simply fighting for Bush and his agenda? Our troops are not fighting for some guy sitting behind a desk 6,000 miles away, regardless of whether it's Bush, or Clinton, or whoever it may be. They did not join the military expecting not to fight. They are over there fighting with HONOR, fighting for our country, our countrymen, and their fellow soldiers right alongside them. They couldn't care less about the oil, or politics, or any of that other crap you people seem to think that they are only fighting for. If you are a veteran, please speak up, because I know you're with me with first hand accounts. I'm just sick of these people showing pity on the troops when they haven't a single CLUE what it is like to be fighting overseas, except for what they see on TV. So please, give it some thought, and give me a rational answer.

2007-07-17 02:57:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm being deployed, (again!) overseas. This time its a little different than last. Last time I had to keep the home up and running (paying the rent, utilities, food etc) for my college aged sons. Now that they are out on their own and I live alone, does the military pay to put my household items in storage while I'm deployed?

2007-07-17 02:50:30 · 7 answers · asked by jonn449 6

Which member of the 'Ten Marshals' (the founders of China's PLA) now has a new exhibit in the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing, and is considered a "hero" of the Chinese military??

2007-07-17 02:24:30 · 3 answers · asked by WMD 7

Shitties have their little religous war if they want? We'd still be there in case something really needed our attention. And maybe we'd be surprised that the Iraqi government would get its act together.

2007-07-17 02:21:28 · 5 answers · asked by topink 6

2007-07-17 02:15:51 · 5 answers · asked by jaeleeamari2904 1

I had not even given it a second thought. The Navy was my choice. I always wanted to fly jets. But I can't now. I'm a mother of 3 plus 3 on the way. This is open to military personal only!

2007-07-17 02:12:33 · 22 answers · asked by SNAKEDOG 3

You know like the facts that seem to be kind of weird (Cheney in a bunker a day before it happens. Bin Laudin not even saying anything.) .

2007-07-17 02:08:35 · 10 answers · asked by Richard E Barsom 1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601680_2.html?referrer=email

Exit Strategies
The bottom line, one participant said, was "pretty much what we are seeing" since the Bush administration began intermittent talks with Damascus and Tehran: not much progress or tangible results.
Amid political arguments in Washington over troop departures, U.S. military commanders on the ground stress the importance of developing a careful and thorough withdrawal plan. Whatever the politicians decide, "it needs to be well-thought-out and it cannot be a strategy that is based on 'Well, we need to leave,' " Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, a top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Friday from his base near Tikrit.
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History is replete with bad withdrawal outcomes. Among the most horrific was the British departure from Afghanistan in 1842, when 16,500 active troops and civilians left Kabul thinking they had safe passage to India. Two weeks later, only one European arrived alive in Jalalabad, near the Afghan-Indian border.
The Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan, which began in May 1988 after a decade of occupation, reveals other mistakes to avoid. Like the U.S. troops who arrived in Iraq in 2003, the Soviet force in Afghanistan was overwhelmingly conventional, heavy with tanks and other armored vehicles. Once Moscow made public its plans to leave, the political and security situations unraveled much faster than anticipated. "The Soviet Army actually had to fight out of certain areas," said Army Maj. Daniel Morgan, a two-tour veteran of the Iraq war who has been studying the Soviet pullout at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., with an eye toward gleaning lessons for Iraq. "As a matter of fact, they had to airlift out of Kandahar, the fighting was so bad."
War supporters and opponents in Washington disagree on the lessons of the departure most deeply imprinted on the American psyche: the U.S. exit from Vietnam. "I saw it once before, a long time ago," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a Vietnam veteran and presidential candidate, said last week of an early Iraq withdrawal. "I saw a defeated military, and I saw how long it took a military that was defeated to recover."
Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), also a White House hopeful, finds a different message in the Vietnam retreat. Saying that Baghdad would become "Saigon revisited," he warned that "we will be lifting American personnel off the roofs of buildings in the Green Zone if we do not change policy, and pretty drastically."
The Al-Qaeda Threat

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What is perhaps most striking about the military's simulations is that its post-drawdown scenarios focus on civil war and regional intervention and upheaval rather than the establishment of an al-Qaeda sanctuary in Iraq.
For Bush, however, that is the primary risk of withdrawal. "It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qaeda," he said in a news conference last week. "It would mean that we'd be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we'd allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan." If U.S. troops leave too soon, Bush said, they would probably "have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous."
Withdrawal would also "confuse and frighten friends and allies in the region and embolden Syria and especially Iran, which would then exert its influence throughout the Middle East," the president said.
Bush is not alone in his description of the al-Qaeda threat should the United States leave Iraq too soon. "There's not a doubt in my mind that Osama bin Laden's one goal is to take over the Kingdom of the Two Mosques [Saudi Arabia] and reestablish the caliphate" that ended with the Ottoman Empire, said a former senior military official now at a Washington think tank. "It would be very easy for them to set up camps and run them in Anbar and Najaf" provinces in Iraq.
U.S. intelligence analysts, however, have a somewhat different view of al-Qaeda's presence in Iraq, noting that the local branch takes its inspiration but not its orders from bin Laden. Its enemies -- the overwhelming majority of whom are Iraqis -- reside in Baghdad and Shiite-majority areas of Iraq, not in Saudi Arabia or the United States. While intelligence officials have described the Sunni insurgent group calling itself al-Qaeda in Iraq as an "accelerant" for violence, they have cited domestic sectarian divisions as the main impediment to peace.
In a report released yesterday, Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies warned that al-Qaeda is "only one part" of a spectrum of Sunni extremist groups and is far from the largest or most active. Military officials have said in background briefings that al-Qaeda is responsible for about 15 percent of the attacks, Cordesman said, although the group is "highly effective" and probably does "the most damage in pushing Iraq towards civil war." But its activities "must be kept in careful perspective, and it does not dominate the Sunni insurgency," he said.
'Serious Consequences'

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Moderate lawmakers such as Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) have concluded that a unified Iraqi government is not on the near horizon and have called for redeployment, change of mission and a phased drawdown of U.S. forces. Far from protecting U.S. interests, Lugar said in a recent speech, the continuation of Bush's policy poses "extreme risks for U.S. national security."
Critics of complete withdrawal often charge that "those advocating [it] just don't understand the serious consequences of doing so," said Wayne White, a former deputy director of Near East division of the State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau. "Unfortunately, most of us old Middle East hands understand all too well some of the consequences."
White is among many Middle East experts who think that the United States should leave Iraq sooner rather than later, but differ on when, how and what would happen next. Most agree that either an al-Qaeda or Iranian takeover would be unlikely, and say that Washington should step up its regional diplomacy, putting more pressure on regional actors such as Saudi Arabia to take responsibility for what is happening in their back yards.
Many regional experts within and outside the administration note that while there is a range of truly awful possibilities, it is impossible to predict what will happen in Iraq -- with or without U.S. troops.
"Say the Shiites drive the Sunnis into Anbar," one expert said of Anderson's war-game scenario. "Well, what does that really mean? How many tens of thousands of people are going to get killed before all the surviving Sunnis are in Anbar?" He questioned whether that result would prove acceptable to a pro-withdrawal U.S. public.
White, speaking at a recent symposium on Iraq, addressed the possibility of unpalatable withdrawal consequences by paraphrasing Winston Churchill's famous statement about democracy. "I posit that withdrawal from Iraq is the worst possible option, except for all the others."

2007-07-17 02:00:39 · 5 answers · asked by trevathantim 2

Exit Strategies
Would Iran Take Over Iraq? Would Al-Qaeda? The Debate About How and When to Leave Centers on What Might Happen After the U.S. Goes.

If U.S. combat forces withdraw from Iraq in the near future, three developments would be likely to unfold. Majority Shiites would drive Sunnis out of ethnically mixed areas west to Anbar province..... Southern Iraq would erupt in civil war between Shiite groups...... And the Kurdish north would solidify its borders and invite a U.S. troop presence there. In short, Iraq would effectively become three separate nations......

That was the conclusion reached in recent "war games" exercises conducted for the U.S. military by retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson. "I honestly don't think it will be apocalyptic," said Anderson, who has served in Iraq and now works for a major defense contractor. But "it will be ugly." The way Bush is running the war will lead to the down fall of Iraq. It's just a matter of time before Bush will fail.

2007-07-17 01:54:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i noticed that the army has banned blogs. i know the army doesn't 'allow' disagreements on their actions but i was wondering if there is a blog, website or whatever where soldiers can go and discuss the problems they are experiencing with the army with other soldiers and get help or guidance. like any institution there are problems and we all know that there are lots of problems with the medical care of soldiers and i just wondered if there was somewhere they could go and at least talk to someone. and not anti-military sites

2007-07-17 01:25:11 · 6 answers · asked by ?! 6

ok what paperwork does someone need if they are marrying a US army guy and the person is not american but english in order for the spouse to get command sponsership and also get en rolled in DEERS so they can get an ID card

2007-07-17 00:24:26 · 9 answers · asked by british gurly 3

South Essex Regiment,King George Reign.
1812 the year.
Wellington`s Army fighting in Southern Spain.
Battle Fortress Badajoz where Captain Rymer died.

2007-07-16 23:58:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

look at this....

http://physics911.net/ivashov

2007-07-16 23:47:14 · 8 answers · asked by Honey Girl 3

2007-07-16 23:24:06 · 10 answers · asked by Spider 2

I'm a Vietnam veteran who flew helicopters in the war. I would like to hear the opinions of our American youth on this subject. Would an equable draft, meaning if your number came up you served, be better for all concerned or would the All Volunteer arrangement we have now be best?

2007-07-16 23:21:09 · 9 answers · asked by Soldier 2

I'm interested in purchasing a military tank. I've checked a few websites, but haven't had a whole lot of luck. Something along the lines of the OT64 SKOT APC is what I'm after. It also needs to be able to be shipped to Australia.

2007-07-16 21:48:53 · 12 answers · asked by jodd1289 2

How long does it usually take to become a Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9) in the Navy?

2007-07-16 19:22:24 · 4 answers · asked by p0th3ad2981 1

Can someone tell me if there is an article on Wikipedia about this?

2007-07-16 19:01:06 · 7 answers · asked by dadadon 1

2007-07-16 18:41:17 · 16 answers · asked by bowman 1

It's from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning.

2007-07-16 18:27:30 · 9 answers · asked by Julie S 3

The American's oftered the French the A. Bomb to nuke Diem Bien Phu, but the French were afraid it might kill its own people. -History Channel "Declassified: Viet Cong"

The U.S. was losing the war, politically, moral, military besides the U.S. was owning the skies. The U.S. military were using descisions to burn down innocent villages and were careless to use Agent Orange on inocent people.

HANOI SHOULDVE BEEN NUKE, the U.S. nukes Japan, Hanoi SHOULDVE BEEN WIPED OFF THE FACE OF EARTH. The war couldve been won easily. The Viet COngs would give up, the war lost. Vietnam united.

Ho Chi Minh won the independence Cambodia, and Loas didn't even help. Vietnam should own Cambodia and Loas cause Ho won the independence from the French. How come????

2007-07-16 18:01:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I dont want to know your opinion on who is better. I really want to know how they are different, and the training involved in each.

2007-07-16 17:37:19 · 13 answers · asked by afcs09 2

I am looking for a specific Vietnam War era Army recruitment poster with a female in it.

2007-07-16 17:26:52 · 2 answers · asked by csscarbr 1

is it the presidandt or congress?

2007-07-16 17:18:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

If anyone says joining the marines ill $h*t bricks. What rank must be achieved.

2007-07-16 17:08:08 · 9 answers · asked by shovelheadgfu27 1