Monday, April 6, Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, announced plans of the Obama administration to make major changes to the U.S. military. The intended goal of the administration is to shift focus from larger, more conventional warfare to smaller, unconventional wars like Iraq and Afghanistan or insurgents from Pakistan who disrupt their host nation and raid into neighboring Afghanistan.
I like the idea of focusing on an agile, unconventional military and I see scrapping the F-22 as a potentially worthwhile deal (how long has that thing been in development?) but I think it’s ridiculous to not keep a large, standing military with “dumb” weapons like rifles as well as putting dollars into developing new technology planes and submarines. I don’t like the idea of throwing away the conventional for the unconventional; I’d prefer that we utilize both.
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Editorial
Council on Foreign Relations, President Obama, Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, Wall Street Journal
What’s wrong in Zimbabwe? Cholera, military riots and, allegedly, despotism (another article).
Clean water, antibiotics and health care are enough to resolve the first issue while printing more money and handing it out to the soldiers for backpay helped with the second issue; the third issue is more difficult.
President Robert Mugabe of the ZANU-PF party, recently stated the the cholera outbreak in his country was contained but the objective sources I found strongly disagree with President Mugabe.
Context, Politics
Africa, CFR, cholera, Council on Foreign Relations, Cour Penale Internationale, healthcare, ICC, International Criminal Court, Laurie Garrett, MDC, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mozambique, Mugabe, South Africa, Tony Holmes, Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe
