The Pentagon's "Long War"...clandestine troops in "dozens of countries"

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Ability to Wage 'Long War' Is Key To Pentagon Plan
Conventional Tactics De-Emphasized

By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 4, 2006; A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020301853_pf.html

The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long war," yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions U.S. troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional threats.

Major initiatives include a 15 percent boost in the number of elite U.S. troops known as Special Operations Forces, a near-doubling of the capacity of unmanned aerial drones to gather intelligence, a $1.5 billion investment to counter a biological attack, and the creation of special teams to find, track and defuse nuclear bombs and other catastrophic weapons.

China is singled out as having "the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States," and the strategy in response calls for accelerating the fielding of a new Air Force long-range strike force, as well as for building undersea warfare capabilities.

The latest top-level reassessment of strategy, or Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), is the first to fully take stock of the starkly expanded missions of the U.S. military -- both in fighting wars abroad and defending the homeland -- since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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1. U.S. to either kill, capture or incarcerate 10% of the world's

population.

[HereSince1628]

2. Where do they get this stuff ? Read "Rainbow 6" and watch "Munich"

Fiction and Faction are the meat and potatoes of Team B.

[oneighty]

3. Dreams

of old fools and video warriors that have never been personally involved in bad shit. They do not have a clue.

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[HereSince1628]

4. True, but they have stolen the reins of power

clueless or not.

[oneighty]

5. Indeed

Major Carter.

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