Sustaining Military Readiness 2011

Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

site title Sustaining Military Readiness 2011

Monday, July 25 through Friday, July 29, 2011
Nashville Convention Center & Renaissance Nashville Hotel
Nashville, Tennessee Continue reading →
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USS Ronald Reagan arrive in Japan

Posted on March 16, 2011 by admin

t1larg.japan.helicopter.marines USS Ronald Reagan arrive in JapanThe nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrived off the coast of Japan Sunday to support Japanese forces in disaster relief operations, the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement. Continue reading →

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U.S. Calls for Troops, Sanctions to Quell Ivory Coast Violence

Posted on December 23, 2010 by admin

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan and Flavia Krause-Jackson

Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is urging African nations to boost peacekeeping forces in Ivory Coast to prevent a slide into civil war and is considering financial sanctions against President Laurent Gbagbo, administration officials said.

The defeat of Gbagbo in Ivory Coast’s recent election is “irrefutable” and he must step down, State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said in Washington yesterday. Opposition leaders in the West African nation, the world’s top cocoa producer, called yesterday for the international community to use military force to oust the president. Gbagbo has demanded the existing 9,105-member United Nations peacekeeping mission leave the country. Continue reading →

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