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[RealClearWorld - Articles] RealClearWorld - Changing Military Balance in the Gulf: In the early 1990s, the focus was on a possible overland Iraqi invasion, which meant that the northern Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain) were frontline states, and that land warfare forces (mechanized forces, antitank helicopters, and artillery) were prioritized. With the eclipse of Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a major military power and the later overthrow of his Baathist regime, the focus shifted back to Iran as the key GCC threat.

[The Right Guy on The Left Coast at Hypocrisy.com] Yemen Burning: “Suddenly US and Iran Jockey for Regional Primacy ...: Yemeni government troops are battling around 15,000 Iranian-armed and trained Houthi rebels dug into the northern Sadaa mountains on the Saudi Arabian border. Saudi air force bombers are pounding the rebels and the Egyptian air force and navy are ferrying ammunition to the Yemen army with US encouragement and funding.

[Crooks and Liars] CQ Politics Runs Cover For Rep. Joe Wilson - Outburst Possibly ...: I'm not trying to minimizing Wilson's sons' service or the stress that all parents feel when their child is in the military during a time of war. I am, however, calling out CQ's Jeff Stein for pulling this garbage straight out of his backside.

[KansasCity.com Prime Buzz - Today's political intelligence and insight] Weekend open thread | KansasCity.com Prime Buzz: 3.) From 1972 to 1975, Wilson served in the United States Army Reserve, and then as a Staff Judge Advocate in the South Carolina Army National Guard assigned to the 218th Mechanized Infantry Brigade until retiring from military service as a Colonel in 2003.

[The Long War Journal] Iraqi ground forces 'total force' mobilization structure - The ...: Five of the nine corps headquarters and 22 of the 46 divisions in a general mobilization belong to the Ministry of Interior. However, only three of the Ministry of Interior's divisions are to be mechanized, eight divisions are to be security, seven are to be motorized, and the remaining four divisions are to be infantry.

[Revolutionary Socialist Party] The coming imperialist war on Iraq and the new 'American Century': While the corporate mass media ceaseless repeats the White House’s propaganda claims that its war drive is aimed at depriving Iraq from using “weapons of mass destruction”, a survey of public opinion in Europe and the US released on December 4 by the US-based Pew Research Center, whose advisory body includes former US secretaries of state Madeliene Albright and Henry Kissinger, found that large percentages in every European country “think that the US desire to control Iraqi oil is the principal reason that Washington is considering a war against Iraq”. In France 75% subscribe to this view, in Germany 54%, in Britain 44%.

[Baghdad Bureau] Odierno Steps Into the Spotlight - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[The Long War Journal] Iraqi Army develops the heavy mechanized and armored forces - The ...: An American M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank and a crew of Soldiers in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, and Iraqi Army crewmen of a T-72 tank perform checks in preparation for a live fire demonstration on Forward Operating Base Hammer, Oct. 31, 2008.

[Teeth Maestro] Blackwater Watch by Citizens of Pakistan | Teeth Maestro: In return Vinnell has constructed, run, staffed, and written doctrine for five military academies, seven shooting ranges, and a healthcare system, as well as training and equipping four mechanized brigades and five infantry brigades. In 1997 Charles Hanley, a special correspondent for the Associated Press newswire, got a rare glimpse inside the Saudi operation where he described 300 American military veterans in the desert hills overlooking Riyadh with yellow “Vinnell Arabia”

[The Foundry] A Slap in the Face to Poland? » The Foundry: 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II at Westerplatte will be attended by German chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin and other 69 Heads of States and Governments will Participante.Among those expected to be present at the Westerplatte monument on 1 September are also the prime ministers of Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, the Baltic states, Finland, as well as European Parliament president Jerzy Buzek. France and the UK, which were Poland’s allies in 1939, will be represented by foreign ministers Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband.

[Dummidumbwit's Weblog] Light Tank M24 Chaffee « Dummidumbwit's Weblog: The first M24s reached Europe in December 1944 (actually, the U.S. 2nd Cavalry Group (Mechanized) received thirty-four M-24 Chaffee's in November 1944 while in France, 17 each being issued to F Company, 2nd Cavalry Reconnaissance .Although both Iran and Iraq had M24s prior to the Iran-Iraq War, there is no account of their use in that conflict.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Iran and the Coming War: On the other hand, a few sticks of conventional smart bombs on the tanker terminals at Bandar ‘Abbas and Bandar-e Emam Khomayni, plus (perhaps) a strike on the refineries at the latter port, would cut Iran’s hard-money income to a third or less and eliminate half their motor fuel production (which is already ‘way below par), plus make it impossible to insure a tanker headed for an Iranian port. Nuclear development is expensive.

[TPMCafe - The Coffee House feed] TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Staging Nuke for Iran?: Mobilizing his strategic bombers that have been moth-balled since the end of the cold war. Violating British air space, Alaskan air space, Guam, Georgian air space? Nothing's written in stone, allegations are flying this way or that. ..... "I don't plan to attack the place. That's not my charter." He was also giving a 'rosy' picture of results of the troop surge in Iraq, so that reassures me on Iran. Posted by anniek. September 5, 2007 3:46 PM | Reply | Permalink ...

[Thomas PM Barnett :: Weblog] By all means, vote with your dollars, but when you point that ...: Putin and Medvedev have watched as America's "Crisis" unfolds in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran (for the Russians it's undoubtedly all about the Oil) and as the "Financial Crisis" among the so-called "Imperialistic" states worsens (note the unprecidented steps that the Fed and Congress are taking to right the debt laden and listing economic ship). I think they see the West at a tipping point, and they intend to give it a nudge wherever they can.

[Informed Comment] Civil War - Informed Comment: Also, as long as the U.S. is in Iraq, it is acting as a recruiter for various elements seeking to build Arab-nationalist and Islamist militia. These in-and-out militias are using Iraq as a short-term training base (much like Lebanon), and the longer the U.S. stays in Iraq, the greater will be the number of recruits in such militia who get live training in Iraq, get some combat experience under their belt, and then move out into other countries – the same training model was used by global socialist/nationalist militias in Lebanon., and many Islamist militias in Afghanistan.

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