BBC – The US is sending up to 600 marines to the Philippines to help with disaster relief efforts in the country
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Daily Archives: December 8, 2004
US Marines – Marine Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company
SeaPower – During Operation Iraqi Freedom, a small, ill-equipped, yet elite unit of Marines fanned out across Iraq, attached to U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, British Commandos and Marine Task Force Tarawa. The 46 men of 2nd ANGLICO, one of the Marine Corpsí Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Companies, were at the forefront of battle in every major battlespace of the war.
Iraq – Rumsfeld's War – Interview with James Mann
PBS Frontline – In his recent book Rise of the Vulcans – The History of Bush’s War Cabinet, James Mann detailed the intertwined relationships and intellectual disputes of six advisers to George W. Bush who have shaped the administration’s foreign policy: Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Armitage. Here in this interview, Mann details who they are, how they think and operate, and the larger context to their story: the ideology and idealism of the neo-conservatives in the Bush administration up against the “realists” more moderate views on war and foreign policy. Commenting on the latest turn taken in their battle, Mann says, “After September 11, all through the war with Iraq, the neo-conservatives won the argument. But with the violence, with the chaos, Iraq didn’t turn out the way they expected. And the result is that the neo-conservatives who were really ascendant on Iraq policy are now in decline.”
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