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Iowa backers herald Obama’s and McCain’s national security skills (The Des Moines Register)
Iowa supporters of John McCain and Barack Obama are touting each presidential candidate’s ability to provide leadership on national security issues, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
read moreNYT: McCain, Obama sharply divided on Iraq (MSNBC)
One of the most pressing questions Barack Obama or John McCain would confront if elected president is how to build on the security gains in Iraq at a time when troop levels have begun to drop.
read moreU.S. to allies: Fight in Afghanistan or write check (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The United States has asked Japan and NATO allies who have refused to send troops to Afghanistan to pay the estimated $17 billion needed to build up the Afghan army, according to U.S. defense officials.
read moreU.S. urges allies to fight in Afghanistan or write cheque (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has asked Japan and NATO allies who have refused to send troops to Afghanistan to pay the estimated $17 billion (9.7 billion pounds) needed to build up the Afghan army, according to U.S. defence officials.
read moreUS to allies: Fight in Afghanistan or write check (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The United States has asked Japan and NATO allies who have refused to send troops to Afghanistan to pay the estimated $17 billion needed to build up ...
read moreWhere they stand (Lowell Sun)
Where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on major foreign-policy an national-security issues. Iraq McCain: Surge worked. A timetable for withdrawal would embolden the enemy and jeopardize hard-won gains.
read moreObama and McCain present conflicting views on Iraq (Calcutta News)
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have presented conflicting visions of how they plan to shrink American military presence in Iraq.
read moreAfghan solution critical, elusive for next president (Baltimore Sun)
Candidates reach for effective measures McCain, Obama struggle to define effective measures in crucial national security issue one will face
read moreSearching within for peace to end war (The Herald News)
NAPERVILLE -- In February, students filled Naperville Central High School's auditorium to listen to Lt. Gen. James Dubik, the commanding general of the Multi-National Security Transition Command in Baghdad, who said many Americans have unrealistic expectations regarding the war in Iraq.
read moreWar isn't the answer? Nation-building may eclipse traditional warfare (The Salt Lake Tribune)
The Army on Monday will unveil an unprecedented doctrine that declares nation-building missions will probably become more important than conventional warfare and defines "fragile states" that breed crime, terrorism and religious and ethnic strife as the greatest threat to U.S. national security.
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Our National Guard: Paying The Price In IraqPresident George Bush has just over six months left in office, but his Iraq deployment policies continue to put an incredible strain on not only our active-duty Armed Forces, but, with our military stretched so thin, the administration has continued to deploy tens of thousands of our troops from the National Guard -- at levels our country has not experienced since World War II.
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The emerging college affordability crisis threatens to derail the American Dream for millions of young people who either cannot afford to attend college or who are saddled with crippling debt that prevents them from furthering their education, starting a family or buying a home. This emerging crisis has not been a prominent part of the national debate, despite its long-term threat to the future of our country.
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America’s Long-Term Military Capability May Be Threatened by Iraq StrategyAmerica's ability to defend itself and, if necessary, fight a conventional war may be eroding because of military strategies in Iraq, according to a West Point historian who served two combat tours in Iraq. According to Lt. Colonel Gian Gentile, a West Point history professor who served in Iraq as an executive officer of a combat brigade in Tikrit and as commander of a battalion northwest of Baghdad, the over-emphasis on counterinsurgency as a "solution to every problem" is contributing to America "losing the ability to wage any other kind of war." After eight years of decline in military readiness, the United States can no longer afford to ignore the informed patriotism of Col. Gentile and others who speak out on America's national security needs in the 21st Century.