Military Ring Info

The United States Secretary of Defense has the utmost confidence that there is nothing that the Iranian government can do that will catch us for surprise. This tells me that we are confident in the intelligence that we have about whetever it is that they are doing in the area of nuclear materials and weapons. [...]

In the background of the piracy problem off of the coast of Somalia lies the internal conflicts of that country. The biggest problem is that the Somali government is not in control of the country. The United States and other countries have spent money attempting to train an army and a police force but to [...]

Piracy off of the coast of Somalia has become a major pain in the butt of the international community. There is no immediate remedy to the situation and there is no doubt in my mind that it won’t end anytime soon. As a matter of fact I don’t think that there is any way to [...]

The unconventional way that the US and NATO forces will have to conduct the troop surge called for bold and audacious new tactics to have to be adopted. The biggest concern for the new strategy of announcing the place and time of impending attack is giving the Taliban forces a decided advantage but our leaders [...]

What would be an example of this? I know the definintion but just need an example

In a typical military move the Secretary of Defense has ordered new regulations concerning the transporting and storing of handguns on military installations. Its typical because they did what they do best which is to overreact to an incident after it is over. When something happens that brings negative attention the military will typically come [...]

The US has began to realine its forces in Afghanistan in what seems to be a major shift in strategy. As I looked at what they are doing it began to make sense to me so let me break it down to you the way that I understand it. The specific move that I am [...]

The newest frontier for warfare is cyber space. The US government has determined that cyber warfare is such a trouble spot that it has created the new Cyber Command. This vulnerability comes with technological advancement. An area which was not even thought about fifty years ago is now an area of major concern for the [...]

The military has been prompted to crack down on personnel who participate in online supremacists chat rooms. The Southern Poverty Law Center researched many of the occupations of people who posted in these chat rooms and found that many of them had listed their occupations as military on facebook. I don’t know if their will [...]

The US claims to have killed five more terrorists in Pakistan using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. I had called this war the advent of the drone in several recent posts because of the way that they have been used in combat. The drone has emerged to be probably the number one killer of terrorists during Operation [...]