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...night of the crash, two F-15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing...
...Indian analysts believe Obama's foreign policy team imagines India mostly in the context of other regional challenges, particularly the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. China, with its booming economy and position as America's primary creditor, now carries far more weight in U.S. strategy. "The ground reality is India at the moment does not count for the U.S. in the same way that China and Pakistan do," says Bahukutumbi Raman, a former top Indian intelligence official and head of the Centre for Topical Studies in Chennai. (See pictures of Barack Obama visiting Asia...
...must then act. We must apply extraordinary measures." His aim, he says, is to create "a system that keeps you on your toes ... to monitor [yourself] vigorously. If there are nonperformers, we'll take them out." Zuma's biographer, Jeremy Gordin, says no one expected Zuma to "hit the ground running, and so hard. He seems to be completely sincere. He wants to deliver...
However, we remain skeptical that the president’s reasons for setting so specific a date to begin withdrawal are not purely political—as opposed to strategic. Obama emphasized that any drawdown starting in July 2011 will be conditional upon the situation that develops on the ground. Because this catch obviously holds the power to render the timeline meaningless, it seems the date is only a political concession to the nation’s left, meant to quell discontent among those who feel America should leave Afghanistan today...
...that adjoins the capital, La Paz, 12,000 ft. high in the Andes. Looking down at her 8-year-old daughter, Condori added, "Because of Evo, I can afford to buy this one schoolbooks and some clothes every year." (See a video about how Bolivia's opposition is losing ground...