Operations
Other Conflicts
Defense Policy / Programs
News Reports

Current Operations

• AFGHANISTAN SECURITY VOA 21 Sept 2003-- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has approved a long-awaited reshuffle of his Defense Ministry in an apparent effort to make it more acceptable to the country's ethnic Pashtun majority
• COALITION ENGINEERS WORK ON BAGHDAD'S SEWER SYSTEM CENTCOM Release 21 Sept 2003-- Soldiers from the 1st Armored Division took to the streets Sept. 18 to fix the city sewage system in the Baghdad neighborhood of Berea.

Other Conflicts

• BURMA / INDONESIA VOA 21 Sept 2003-- Indonesian special envoy, former foreign minister Ali Alatas, arrived in Rangoon Sunday as part of an effort by Burma's regional neighbors to pressure the country's military government to release detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Air Assault School begins in northern Iraq Army News Service 21 Sept 2003-- Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division began air assault school in an unlikely place --- Northern Iraq.

News Reports

• E-U/LATVIA/REACT VOA 21 Sept 2003-- The European Union has congratulated Latvia for voting to join the union. Latvia was the ninth of 10 countries slated to join the 15-nation bloc next year, which voted in favor of membership. Now, the European Union is looking toward Cyprus.