• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
News Reports

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 15 Dec 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• Two Marines killed in Al Anbar Province
• One Task Force Lightning Soldier killed, two wounded
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Col. Sutherland from Iraq 15 Dec 2006 -- Presenter: Commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Calvary Division, Col. David Sutherland
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Dec. 15 AFPN 15 Dec 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Dec. 15.
• Iraqi, Coalition Troops Detain 13, Find Three Weapons Caches AFPS 15 Dec 2006 -- Coalition forces and Iraqi police this week detained 13 suspected terrorists in Iraq and discovered three weapons caches.

Deployments

• U.S. Army's 3rd Corps takes on Multinational Corps Iraq Mission AFPS 15 Dec 2006 -- Nearly 300 people gathered outside Al Faw Palace here yesterday for a ceremony that marked the transfer of authority over Multinational Corps Iraq, which includes more than 160,000 U.S. and coalition troops, from the U.S. Army's 5th Corps to 3rd Corps.

US Policy

• DoD Honors Rumsfeld, Bids Farewell AFPS 15 Dec 2006 -- The Defense Department bid farewell to the 21st secretary of defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, in a full honors parade at the Pentagon today.
• President Attends Armed Forces Full Honor Review for Secretary Rumsfeld The White House 15 Dec 2006
• Cheney, Pace Praise Rumsfeld at Farewell Ceremony AFPS 15 Dec 2006 -- Donald Rumsfeld is "the finest defense secretary the nation has ever had," Vice President Richard B Cheney said at today's Pentagon farewell to Rumsfeld.
• Bush Praises Rumsfeld's Transformation Efforts AFPS 15 Dec 2006 -- Even while waging a global campaign against terrorism, outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld kept his focus on the future and transformed the Defense Department into a more agile organization better suited for the 21st century, President Bush said here today.
• Rumsfeld Says Fight Must Go On VOA 15 Dec 2006 -- Outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that Americans' distaste for the war in Iraq should not be confused with a reluctance to defend their way of life.
• Army, Marine Corps unveil counterinsurgency field manual Army News 18 Dec 2006 -- The Army and Marine Corps released a new field manual today to provide guidance to ground forces in order to achieve success in current and future counterinsurgency operations.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Political Parties Consider Uniting Against Al-Sadr RFE/RL 15 Dec 2006 -- The decision by radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to pull his political bloc out of the Iraqi government to protest Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's decision to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush on November 30 has brought the Iraqi political process to a virtual standstill.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports