The department remains in regular consultation with the relevant committees in Congress and with other agencies within the intelligence community, including the CIA. |
The last number I saw was 161,000, but you're going to start to see that come down pretty dramatically because that was in-place relief and holdovers, |
The last number I saw was 161,000, but you're going to start to see that come down pretty dramatically because that was in-place relief and holdovers. |
There is no unit that is directly reportable to the Secretary of Defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article. ... Further, the department is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities, as is suggested in this article. |
There was already a significant flow of Guard troops. Changing the nature of the operation wasn't going to get people there any faster. |
These are countries that are starting, together, themselves to identify as a region, as the Central American region. The Central American Free Trade Agreement is one example. Countries in that region, for example, have contributed troops to Iraq, and they've contributed at least a commitment to work on maybe joint peacekeeping activities, things of that nature. So, it's developing an identity as a component of the inter-American system and I think the Secretary would very much like to strengthen that. |
They're trying different ways to place these things, they're trying to keep focused on US activities, ... We're always trying to learn off of them, they're always trying to learn off of us. |
This is the most hysterical piece of journalist malpractice I have ever observed. |
We altered the rotation of units during the January elections, and I think its perfectly plausible we'll do the same thing for these elections. |
We have a lot of skilled people, a lot of energy, and a lot of money. But I question whether the DoD is the best place to be doing these things. |
We're getting more intelligence that's allowing us to stop more of these things, find more of them. So we're learning from them and the enemy is learning from us, and it's going to be that way for as long as there is an insurgency. |
What we have found are mostly sort of general reference to terrorist cells that people were generally aware of. |
When we turn over two dozen forward-operating bases, that's two dozen that no longer require US military, ... So at a certain point you have to start to connect that to force levels. |
You drop in the 82nd Airborne, and you have a bunch of guys on the ground waiting for their equipment to show up, |
You drop in the 82nd Airborne, and you have a bunch of guys on the ground waiting for their equipment to show up. |