Emulation Technology Breakthrough Makes Realistic Communications Effects Possible for Network Development and Personnel Training.
- New Software Virtual Networks Enhance Signal Officer Training, War Gaming, and Military Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Development - LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Network-centric systems are widely believed to be the new generation of military operations platform for the United States and other Western nations....

Military Weather Satellite Built by Lockheed Martin Achieves Five Years on Orbit, Exceeding Design Life.
Constellation Projected to Provide Critical Weather Data for Years to Come SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Flight 16 (F16) Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin , has surpassed five years of on-orbit operations and continues to provide critical weather...

A dangerous gamble.
Byline: The Register-Guard The Bush administration is playing a dangerous game of chicken with the government of Iraq, and the tactic sends decidedly mixed signals to the American people. Frustrated with Iraq's reluctance to approve a new status of forces agreement authorizing continued U.S. military...

SYRIA - Oct 26 - Syrians Blame US In Deadly Blast On Iraq Border.
An explosion on kills nine construction workers and wounded 19 others near the border of Iraq and Syria, the police in Anbar Province said. Local witnesses said they believed the blast was caused by American shelling, but Major General Tariq al-Youssef, the provincial police chief in Ramadi, the capital...

An unnerving environment: <<urban areas provide sanctuary, shielding, recruitment for extremists and provide fertile ground for humanitarian crises,>> General William Wallace, the Commanding General of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, told delegates at the 2008 Armor Conference at Fort Knox, Kentucky an 5 May. If current trends continue almost 60% (five billion) of population will live in urban areas by 2030.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Marine Corps System Command (Marcorsyscom), briefing contenders bidding for the Combined Arms Military Operations in Urban Terrain (Camout) contracts, explained that extensive studies by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory have shown that units trained to operate an integrated combined arms team are more successful...

Lost no more: the hand-held Global Positioning System receiver is the foundation of situational awareness for dismounted soldiers in today's military operations.
A Boeing Delta II launch vehicle successfully delivered to orbit a replenishment Lockheed Martin Block IIR Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the US Air Force on 17 November 2006. It was the third of the modernised GPS IIR-16 (M) satellites that feature greater accuracy and increased resistance to...

US-Led Offensives On Neo-Salafis.
On July 29, US forces in northern Iraq began a series of major offensives on Neo-Salafi insurgents with Iraqi Army troops. The operations, extending well into August, are to drive al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups out of the north-western province of Nineva which borders with Syria and the north-eastern...

IRAQ - Aug 12 - Female Suicide Bomber Strikes In Iraq.
A female suicide bomber struck an Iraqi Army convoy on Aug 12 carrying senior officials in Baquba, killing at least two people, the US military said. It was the second suicide attack by a woman in the city in as many days. The bombing came a day after the...

Uribe to the rescue: Colombia's president is winning the battle for his country's future.
WHEN Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as president of Colombia in August of 2002, the question in the minds of U.S. policymakers was when, not whether, the Colombian government would fall into the hands of Marxist terrorists or rightwing paramilitaries. Some wondered if a military coup would come first....

Is Russia reigniting the Cold War in Georgia?
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Nolan Nelson The Register-Guard Despite Russian claims, no parallels exist between the United States' involvement in Iraq and Russian aggression in Georgia. Yet with that false parallel and on other pretexts, Russian Prime Minister Validimir Putin ordered a unilateral attack on Georgia. The...