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...Austin, 70, is a retired US Army four-star general. He became secretary of defence in January 2021. He had previously been commander of US Central Command, or Centcom....
...By the time he finally returned many decades later, he had a profoundly more complicated relationship with the Chinese state and hundreds of millions of dollars at his command....
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...Thus far, 27 states have called up guard units, which are under the command of governors, deploying 2,050 in all....
...varied in background that the men often could not understand their officers’ commands....
...Moscow-backed Syrian troops have taken over abandoned US army bases and Russian troops are patrolling the front lines....
...“China is now capable of controlling the South China Sea in all scenarios short of war with the United States,” US Admiral Phillip Davidson, due to be the next head of US Pacific Command, told the Senate...
...“My blood pressure is 120 over 60,” he told a young female reporter who queried his medical state. “What’s your blood pressure?”...
...States....
...In 1978 a member of the high command of the liberation army died of cirrhosis of the liver....
...His drinking policy A: In 1978, one of our members of the High Command in Zanla forces, Peter Baya, member of the High Command, died of liver cirrhosis....
...“Disclosure about all sorts of things is much more acceptable than, say, 40, 50 years ago — [the era of] the stiff upper lip . . . certainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, western Europe, Australia...
...And last month, the Israeli military announced it would be forming a new “cyber command” to combat new challenges in online warfare....
...We’ll renovate our military museums – from the Royal Marines and D-Day Museums in Portsmouth, to the National Army Museum, to Hooton Park aerodrome, and the former HQ of RAF Fighter Command at Bentley Priory...
...“No one comes to China for medical care,” quipped Beijing-based blogger Eric Jou in a post entitled “Why many in China hate Iron Man 3’s Chinese version”....
...Ms Lanier said the initial shots were fired at 8.20am inside the facility which houses the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters and where roughly 3,000 people work....
...Apart from LANL, the National Institutes of Health, which drives US medical research, has suffered $1.5bn in cuts this year....
...But under new plans, the army wants to mobilise whole units of TA – often specialising in areas such as medical, communications and logistics support – at a moment’s notice....
...Ice-T became an emcee on returning to California after a stint in the army in the 1980s....
...trip to the US for medical treatment....
...The top echelons – so it is said – were not allowed to marry or have families, could not join the army, work for state institutions, own property or have any of the trappings of the wealth....
...The NTC has set up an operations command room to co-ordinate rebel forces operating in the capital, said Mr Nayed, who is also ambassador to the United Arab Emirates....
..., though he concedes the chain of command “might be in its infancy”....
...Its mission profiles include assault support for special operations, supplying forward troops, search and rescue, and medical evacuations....
...Yet his command of Venezuela – its economy, army and institutions, including the judiciary – has never been stronger....
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