Topic: Southeast Asia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is giving, not selling, two dozen second-hand F-16 fighter planes to Indonesia to strengthen security ties with an "important U.S. partner," the Defense Department said on Monday,Elaborating on an announcement on Friday by the presidents of ...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The complete Pentagon Papers were made available to the public on Monday, exactly 40 years after leaked portions of the top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam were first published by the New York Times."There will probably be ...
Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday said he warned the Chinese defence minister of a possible arms race in the region if tensions worsened over disputes in the South China Sea.Aquino said he told visiting Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie in their ...
US soldiers today face combat in some far-flung places, but it's the battle for Columbia University, right in Manhattan, that could say most about the country they represent.At issue is whether the prestigious college will end a ban on a military cadet ...
Asian and US defense chiefs should consider meeting more frequently to smooth out relations after last year's inaugural talks in Vietnam, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday.The October talks brought together defense ministers from 18 nations including the United States and China ...
Last-minute congressional legislation included in the October omnibus appropriations bill provided $9.2 billion in emergency funding for the Defense Department. This increased fiscal 1999 defense appropriations to $278.8 billion, the first real rise in 14 years. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had ...
On my last trip to Egypt, an Egyptian friend of mine, Hassan, asked me if the U.S. economy could continue to grow without constantly having an enemy to justify the growth of our large military industrial complex. The military industrial complex objected ...
As Spock would say to Captain Kirk in Star Trek, " Afghanistan has all the earmarks and signs of following in the footsteps of the Vietnam War. Afghanistan is on Obama's shoulders, will America acknowledge its defeat during the Obama reign?Johnson and ...
President restores rank of Vietnam general after declassified information exonerates himMore than 30 years after his death, an Air Force general has been exonerated of charges that he violated presidential restrictions on aerial bombing during the Vietnam War and that he ordered ...
Thai military ready to send more troops to border if land dispute with Cambodia heats upThailand's army is prepared to defend its border with Cambodia if a territorial dispute heats up, the prime minister said Wednesday, as the two nations were set ...
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