Monat: Juli 2011

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

WASHINGTON, July 25, 2011 — The Defense Depart­ment has launched a new web­site to high­light its first uni­fied strat­e­gy for cyber­space, DOD offi­cials said in …

CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, Iraq — Since the onset of Oper­a­tion Iraqi Free­dom in 2003, thou­sands of sol­diers have wit­nessed progress through­out their deploy­ments to …

KHOST PROVINCE, Afghanistan, July 25, 2011 — One of the most impor­tant aspects of any suc­cess­ful mil­i­tary oper­a­tion is reli­able com­mu­ni­ca­tions, from the high­est com­man­der …

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2011 — Before 2001, Afghanistan had a lot of war­riors, but few dis­ci­plined sol­diers or police. Coali­tion forces came into the coun­try …

The Aus­tralian Defence Force con­demns the Tal­iban attacks aimed at civil­ians and that were intend­ed to kill the Uruz­gan Provin­cial Gov­er­nor, his Deputy and a …

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2011 — The job of com­mand­ing the U.S. North­ern Com­mand and the North Amer­i­can Aero­space Defense Com­mand will require build­ing con­fi­dence and …

The largest com­bined Aus­tralian and Unit­ed States mil­i­tary train­ing exer­cise, Tal­is­man Sabre 2011 (TS11), con­clud­ed with a clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny at Camp Rocky, Rock­hamp­ton on Thurs­day.

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2011 — The U.S. Army gen­er­al who leads the coali­tion train­ing effort for Afghanistan’s secu­ri­ty forces has been cleared of alle­ga­tions that …

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2011 — The Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Assis­tance Force joined Afghanistan Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai and the country’s Min­istry of Inte­ri­or in con­demn­ing today’s insur­gent …

NAVY             Raytheon Co., Tuc­son, Ariz., is being award­ed an $85,619,066 firm-fixed-price con­tract for the pro­cure­ment of 225 full rate pro­duc­tion, …

INTERVIEW WITH KIERAN GILBERT, SKY NEWS KIERAN GILBERT:    Defence Min­is­ter, thanks for your time.  You’ve just held your talks, your first talks with Leon Panet­ta …

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Ger­many, July 27, 2011 — A height­ened lev­el of shared knowl­edge, speed of infor­ma­tion and send­ing pro­fes­sion­als to the bat­tle­field are cru­cial to future …

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2011 — As Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma com­mem­o­rat­ed the anniver­sary of the armistice agree­ment that estab­lished a demil­i­ta­rized zone between North and South …

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2011 — The Defense Department’s acqui­si­tion orga­ni­za­tion is 18 to 24 months away from com­plet­ing the inte­gra­tion of prac­tices that is chang­ing …