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• Obama names Panetta, Blair as intel picks
Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he plans to question Blair about the role he played 10 years ago in U.S. efforts to rein in the Indonesian military as it brutally cracked down on civilians in East Timor. Staff aides to other members said they would be ...
• U.S. anthropologist set on fire by Afghan dies
The attack on Paula Loyd, 36, prompted an alleged revenge killing by one of Loyd's colleagues, who now faces the first murder charges ever filed against a military contractor in Afghanistan or Iraq under a 2000 law that allows such prosecutions. Don ...
• U.S. Army recruiters going after gamers
Departing from the recruiting environment of metal tables and uniformed soldiers in a drab military building, the Army has invested $12 million in a facility that looks like a cross between a hotel lobby and a video arcade. The U.S. Army Experience ...
• Troops in Iraq get to drink beer for Super Bowl
BAGHDAD - American troops in Iraq will be allowed to drink beer without fear of court-martial for this year's Super Bowl — an exception to a strict military ban on drinking alcohol in combat zones. In what is sure to be a major morale boost, the ...
• Measure Your Business Plan Results
Then there's another old military saying: "No battle plan ever survived the first encounter with the enemy." What does happen, though, with battle plans as well as business plans, is you don't know how to recover or how to adjust the plan if you didn ...