U.S. military leaders have not given ground force commanders in Iraq a mandate to capture Saddam Hussein alive, a member of the Joint Staff told reporters today.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Saturday, April 1, 2023
U.S. military leaders have not given ground force commanders in Iraq a mandate to capture Saddam Hussein alive, a member of the Joint Staff told reporters today.
The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said today those forces are facing "a classic guerrilla-type campaign," adding that mid-level members of the deposed Baathist Party are responsible for the attacks.
A group of physicists today said the Bush administration's plan to protect the United States from ballistic missiles by destroying them in the boost phase of flight is impractical because the interceptor rockets would have to be far larger and faster than any now in development.
Facing increasing pressure from the White House, Congress and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to tie performance to dollars, the Marine Corps will judge all of its installations for cost and performance as it puts together its fiscal year 2006 program objective memorandum.
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Boeing a $241.7 million Airborne Laser contract modification to cover cost increases "for the laser, beam control and integration and test efforts," according to a Defense Department announcement issued today.
The chairman of House Appropriations defense subcommittee today said the Defense Department likely will need another supplemental spending bill to cover the costs of operations in Iraq, but he believes it will apply to fiscal year 2004, not 2003.
Lockheed Martin and United Kingdom-based BAE Systems have signed an agreement to team on missile defense programs, with their initial area sea-based systems, the companies announced today.
President Bush has nominated Air Force Gen. Richard Myers for a second two-year term as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Senate received the nomination yesterday.
The Navy's sea-based missile defense system failed to shoot down a ballistic missile target yesterday in the skies off the coast of Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced.
With an eye toward cutting personnel costs and eliminating duplicative efforts, the Marine Corps is combining its active and Reserve support organizations, which provide combat support to deployed units.
Despite an open-ended commitment of U.S. military forces in Iraq, Defense Department officials expect retention rates to remain high, the Pentagon's top personnel official said today.
An ongoing, internal debate over how the Defense Department uses and mobilizes reserve forces will be settled this summer and reflected in the 2005 budget request, the Pentagon's top personnel official said today.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) today asked the CIA to declassify the number of suspected Iraqi weapons of mass destruction sites the agency shared with U.N. weapons inspectors before the Bush administration went to war with Iraq.
The Army has announced its intention to award a contract for the next phase of the Aerial Common Sensor program, an airborne sensor that will locate, track and disseminate time-sensitive data to soldiers at all echelons.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young (R-FL) today announced he has allocated $368.6 billion for the fiscal year 2004 defense bill, slightly more than $3 billion below what President Bush requested.
Upon his return from a trip leading a congressional delegation to North Korea, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) said yesterday that government officials there did not balk at the prospect of moving toward compliance with several international agreements aimed at stemming the flow of ballistic missile technologies around the world.
Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) told InsideDefense.com today that he would talk with Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, about holding hearings on the intelligence information used by the Bush administration to make the case for war against Iraq.
The Missile Defense Agency should take a different approach to developing and fielding a $3 billion satellite system that will detect and track ballistic missiles in flight, an approach that could include delaying the initial launch from 2007 to 2008 and stopping work on existing satellites to focus more on new technologies, the General Accounting Office says in a new report.
In building the fiscal year 2005 defense budget, Pentagon officials will take a "significantly different" approach than that used in crafting prior-year spending plans, and will particularly stress that there be a minimum number of program changes, according to interim guidance issued May 12.
Coalition experts who are examining an Iraqi mobile laboratory discovered near a Kurdish checkpoint last month can find no other reason for its existence than to produce biological weapons, a top defense intelligence official said today.