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Top U.S. lawmakers on July 3 slammed President Barack Obama's military drawdown plans for Afghanistan as "risky," unsupported by his military commanders and a threat to progress made in the last year.
The U.S. military is expanding its Central Asian supply routes to Afghanistan, fearing that the routes going through Pakistan could be endangered by deteriorating U.S.-Pakistani relations, The Washington Post reports.
The Navy announced the start of construction of the first Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ship at the General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego.
U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft are still flying hundreds of strike missions over Libya despite the Obama administration's claim that American forces are playing only a limited support role.
The United States must strike a fiscal balance so it can continue providing aid to nations on the verge of becoming failed states, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says.
Pakistan has told the United States to leave a remote desert air base—reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone attacks—the defense minister was quoted as saying June 29.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired 14 missiles in a June 28 exercise, one of them a medium-range weapon capable of striking Israel or U.S. targets in the Gulf, state media said.
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The 10-year-old war in Afghanistan could end in a U.S. defeat because of a lack of crucial factors historically necessary to counterinsurgency victories, a new Rand Corp. study says.
Taiwan's defense ministry on June 28 confirmed reports that a new supersonic anti-ship missile had missed its target during a routine naval drill in the latest in a series of setbacks.