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Gates cites corruption as Afghan obstacle
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
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Tackling lingering issues over corruption in the Afghan government will not happen overnight, said U.S...Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for his second term Thursday in Kabul. His inauguration comes as world leaders measure their commitment...
Tags: Afghanistan, Robert Gates, U.S, Iraq, Barack Obama, defense secretary, gates told, Pentagon, Hamid Karzai, Karzai Made, Kabul, Afghan presidential election, Pashtun people, War in Afghanistan, Politics of Afghanistan, Politics, Elections in Afghanistan, Karzai, Military of Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, Opposition to the War in Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Stress, Abnormal psychology, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Suicide, Anxiety disorders, Military medicine, Military psychiatry, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Pentagon moves to reduce stigma of mental counseling
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Advocates of better mental health care for troops say a new Pentagon policy aimed at reducing the stigma of getting psychiatric counseling could be a small but important step. Under the new policy, troops won’t have to reveal past job-related therapy...
Tags: Defense Robert Gates, Fort Hood, Pentagon, defense secretary, secretary robert, pentagon review, Tennessee, Washington, CNN, Iran-Contra affair, Robert Gates, Texas A&M University System, Politics, United States Secretary of Defense, Gates, Health Medical Pharma, Geoff Morrell, Human Interest
Road opened in rebel-infested areas in E. Samar
Lapinig :: Philippines | 10 days ago
Credibility An all-weather road that was officially opened Saturday connected two of the most remote and depressed towns in Eastern Visayas and helped �introduced� Defense Secretary Gilbert �Gibo� Teodoro to the townsfolk. The opening of the 5.22-kilometer road,...
Tags: defense secretary, Philippines, Lapinig, Department of National Defense, Gilberto Teodoro, Politics, Health Medical Pharma, Visayan Islands, Samar, War Conflict, Provinces of the Philippines, Visayas, Northern Samar
Lakas-Kampi hopes NPC will give members free choice
Manila :: Philippines | 12 days ago
Credibility Philippines�The Lakas-Kampi-CMD administration party is betting that the Nationalist People�s Coalition will not support a single candidate for president and instead will give its members a free choice in the 2010 elections. Lakas-Kampi deputy secretary...
Tags: Norberto Gonzales, security adviser, Philippines�Bayan Muna, Gilbert Teodoro, Department of National Defense, defense secretary, Philippines, Manila, Lakas-CMD, Lakas-Kampi-CMD, Gilberto Teodoro, Loren Legarda, Francis Escudero, Moro, Politics of the Philippines, Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino, Politics, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, Satur Ocampo, Partido Demokratiko Sosyalista ng Pilipinas, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Scouting in the Philippines, Bayan Muna, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Camp Aguinaldo, War Conflict, Eduardo Ermita, Filipinos of Spanish descent, Filipinos of Chinese descent
U.S. calls for lasting military dialogue with China
Beijing :: China | 29 days ago
Credibility Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for lasting dialogue with China's military after years of "on-again, off-again" talks as he welcomed a top Chinese general to the Pentagon on Tuesday. The 75-minute meeting between Gates and Xu Caihou, vice chairman...
Tags: U.S.-China, Robert Gates, Xu Caihou, Pentagon press, secretary robert, Pakistan, Chinese, general xu, Defense, defense secretary
Gibo mum on running mate
Manila :: Philippines | about 1 month ago
Credibility Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro was mum on who would be his running mate when pressed by municipal mayors at a forum Monday. Capas Tarlac Mayor Reynaldo Catacutan said Teodoro refused to talk about his vice president, not even hinting whether it was...
Tags: Gilbert Teodoro Jr., Gilberto �Gibo� Teodoro, running mate, secretary gilbert, political party, Defense, defense secretary
Outgoing defense chief bids farewell to staff
Manila :: Philippines | about 1 month ago
Credibility Outgoing Defense chief Gilberto Teodoro, Jr. bid farewell to the staff of the Department of National Defense (DND) weeks before he officially steps down from office in preparation for his 2010 presidential bid. In his speech during the launching of the...
Tags: Gilberto Teodoro Jr., Gilbert Teodoro, Department of National Defense, Philippine Defense, Outgoing Defense, defense secretary, presidential bids, defense chief, bids farewell
Calls for nuclear weapons in South Korea
Seoul :: South Korea | about 1 month ago
Credibility With the U.S. defense chief in Seoul for security talks, a group of scholars and retired military officials have called for a redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea to counter North Korea's nuclear drive. They also urged the United States...
Tags: North Korean, South Korean, South Korea Reaffirm Alliance, North Asia, Seoul, Robert Gates, United States, U.S, defense secretary, secretary robert
Politics › Hatoyama seeks flexibility in realignment talks with U.S.
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Monday that Japan and the United States should remain flexible in their negotiations over the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan. Commenting on remarks by a senior U.S. defense official who signaled that Washington...
Tags: U.S.-Japan, Robert Gates, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, defense secretary, Defense Department, Tokyo, secretary robert
Pakistan wants U.S. soldiers to stay put on their soil
The U.S. government is now debating whether to withdraw or not, to add or not up to additional 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan.While the debates goes on, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met with the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
Tags: US government, debate, Afghanistan, troops, Pakistan, Qureshi, secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, terrorism, soviet troops, Taliban, Robert Gates, Defense secretary
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