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"/> </a> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></h4> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/joseph-konys-place-in-manhunting-history/">Joseph Kony’s Place in Manhunting History</a></h3> </div> <hr/> </div>  <div id="post-loop"> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/november-4-1979-the-iran-hostage-crisis/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/iranhostage.jpg?w=182&hash=bde8d3ebe582b54c391a8abc91c5c853" alt="President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, after disembarking from their helicopter to meet about the Iran Hostage Crisis at Camp David, Maryland. 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Photo and Caption credit: U.S. Department of State."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/november-4-1979-the-iran-hostage-crisis/">November 4, 1979: The Iran Hostage Crisis</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/ray-takeyh/" title="Posts by Ray Takeyh">Ray Takeyh</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/">November</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/04/">4</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Sunday, November 4, 1979, began as any other day in revolutionary Tehran, with protests engulfing the streets of the capital.<p/> <p> But then a group of demonstrating students suddenly took a different route, breaching the walls of the formidable U.S. embassy and announcing the arrest of the perplexed diplomats. <p/> <p>Initially, all the parties involved assumed the crisis would be short-lived. The students themselves hoped to deliver what they called a propaganda of deed, and then return to their universities; the Carter administration, accustomed to Iranian transgressions, sensed yet another momentary crisis soon to be resolved; and the officials of Iran’s provisional government seemed more annoyed than exulted by the students’ militancy. <p/> <p>Yet the embassy takeover would soon be entangled in Iran’s vicious factional politics, prolonging the incarceration of the hapless diplomats.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/november-4-1979-the-iran-hostage-crisis/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/november-4-1979-the-iran-hostage-crisis/" data-text="Just read November 4, 1979: The Iran Hostage Crisis by Ray Takeyh">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F11%2Fnovember-4-1979-the-iran-hostage-crisis%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/into-uganda/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/foodaidcopy.jpg?w=182&hash=0f400e42f4ea23d72162c036d8543183" alt="Uganda: Food Aid Food aid awaiting distribution. 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Caption credit: USAID."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/into-uganda/">Into Uganda</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/callie/" title="Posts by Callie Oettinger">Callie Oettinger</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/">November</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/03/">3</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Today’s posts focus on Uganda, the LRA, and President Obama’s recent announcement, stating that military personnel have been sent to Uganda.<p/> <p>In his article “<strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/joseph-konys-place-in-manhunting-history/">Joseph Kony’s Place in Manhunting History</a></strong>”, Benjamin Runkle quotes President Obama, who justified the deployment by citing the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, which states that “it is the policy of the United States” to provide regional governments with political, economic, military, and intelligence support “to apprehend or remove Joseph Kony and his top commanders from the battlefield in the absence of a negotiated settlement.” <p/> <p>Runkle examines past manhunts, comparing the search for Kony to the searches for Che Guevara and Pablo Escobar.<p/> <p>The post “<strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/considering-the-responsibility-to-protect/">Considering Responsibility to Protect</a></strong>” by Mary Page, focuses on Uganda’s terror-scarred history and on the responsibilities to prevent, to react, and to rebuild.<p/> <p>The post "<strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/murder-and-memory-in-uganda/">Murder and Memory in Uganda</a></strong>" tackles the violent reign of Idi Amin, and a son's determination to solve the mystery behind his father's 1972 disappearance. The ensuing search ultimately led him to a shallow grave--and then to three old soldiers, including Amin's military chief of staff.<p/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/into-uganda/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/into-uganda/" data-text="Just read Into Uganda by Callie Oettinger">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F11%2Finto-uganda%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/joseph-konys-place-in-manhunting-history/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/nightcommuters.jpg?w=182&hash=cc94e88d03ddb173bbec8141eae5ce53" alt="Uganda: Safe Houses for Children " night commuters" sleep in safe houses as protection from abduction by lord's resistance army rebels. photo credit: k. burns. caption credit: usaid. " title="Uganda: Safe Houses for Children " night commuters" sleep in safe houses as protection from abduction by lord's resistance army rebels. photo credit: k. burns. caption credit: usaid. "/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/joseph-konys-place-in-manhunting-history/">Joseph Kony’s Place in Manhunting History</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/benjamin-runkle/" title="Posts by Benjamin Runkle">Benjamin Runkle</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/">November</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/03/">3</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Friday, September 14, President Barack Obama publicly announced the deployment of one hundred armed military advisors to central Africa to assist regional forces in tracking down the leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), the cult-like militia guilty of widespread atrocities in four countries.<p/> <p>In justifying the deployment, the President cited the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, which states that “it is the policy of the United States” to provide regional governments with political, economic, military, and intelligence support “to apprehend or remove Joseph Kony and his top commanders from the battlefield in the absence of a negotiated settlement.”<p/> <p>If strategic manhunts can be broadly defined as “the deployment of American military forces abroad for a campaign in which the operational objective is to capture or kill one man,” than this deployment appears to qualify as the twelfth strategic manhunt in U.S. history, and the seventh of the last 25 years.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/joseph-konys-place-in-manhunting-history/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/joseph-konys-place-in-manhunting-history/" data-text="Just read Joseph Kony’s Place in Manhunting History by Benjamin Runkle">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F11%2Fjoseph-konys-place-in-manhunting-history%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/murder-and-memory-in-uganda/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/idiamin.jpg?w=182&hash=8ad67ad1cd7195418eee150d7de10699" alt="Idi Amin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, October 1975. Photo and Caption credit: Library of Congress." title="Idi Amin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, October 1975. Photo and Caption credit: Library of Congress."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/murder-and-memory-in-uganda/">Murder and Memory in Uganda</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/andrew-rice/" title="Posts by Andrew Rice">Andrew Rice</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/">November</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/03/">3</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p><em>CP Note: The people of Uganda have long struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view. In 2000, lawyer Duncan Laki came across a clue to his father's 1972 disappearance, and the ensuing search ultimately led him to a shallow grave--and then to three old soldiers, including Amin's military chief of staff.Laki's discovery resulted in a trial that, in the end, offered all Ugandans the reckoning they had long been denied.</em><p/> <p>“With time, Amin’s image is getting cleaned in the memories of people,” said a Ugandan politician, a former member of the underground. “He is becoming less and less of a monster.” The apologists portrayed Amin as a jolly man, a good sport, who loved to box and play rugby and captained the presidential basketball team. (One of the many titles Amin awarded himself was “Uganda’s Sportsman Number One.”) He was a nationalist who had tweaked the country’s former colonial masters and granted economic power to the people. . . .<p/> <p>All that talk about Amin the killer, Amin the illiterate, Amin the cannibal—it had been concocted by a Western press bent on smearing an African leader who could stand on his own.<p/> <p>“It’s just sickening,” Oder said of the revisionism. “A lot of people were killed. People were slaughtered,” he said. <p/> <p>“That’s the problem— history is what somebody in power sees now. Not what he did. Not what anyone else did.<p/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/murder-and-memory-in-uganda/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/murder-and-memory-in-uganda/" data-text="Just read Murder and Memory in Uganda by Andrew Rice">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F11%2Fmurder-and-memory-in-uganda%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/considering-the-responsibility-to-protect/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/ug2_parabongo_checkingforms_05copy.jpg?w=182&hash=4aa6ec09ed9eb65fe0d79a92fb069b43" alt="Uganda: Check-Point for Food Distribution Checking forms to distribute food aid at a camp for internally displaced persons. Photo Credit: K. Burns. Caption credit: USAID." title="Uganda: Check-Point for Food Distribution Checking forms to distribute food aid at a camp for internally displaced persons. Photo Credit: K. Burns. Caption credit: USAID."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/considering-the-responsibility-to-protect/">Considering the Responsibility to Protect</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/mary-page/" title="Posts by Mary Page">Mary Page</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/">November</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/03/">3</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>A prime case for considering the “responsibility to protect” involves northern Uganda, where, for the past twenty years, civilians have suffered from abductions, killings, and maimings by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), abuses by government military forces sent to fight the rebels, and disease and social disintegration in resettlement camps or “protected villages” set up in the northern districts.<p/> <p>The long-term failure of the Ugandan government to provide security for the people in the north clearly raises questions about international action.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/considering-the-responsibility-to-protect/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/11/considering-the-responsibility-to-protect/" data-text="Just read Considering the Responsibility to Protect by Mary Page">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F11%2Fconsidering-the-responsibility-to-protect%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/arsenal-democracy-and-fiscal-responsibility-in-the-face-of-war-2/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/lendleasecrop64.jpg?w=182&hash=a411c5b9be4e8df6335a913bdb5396bb" alt="Fitters are at work assembling an American light tank which has just arrived at an English ordnance depot from the US as part of a lend-lease shipment. 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Hormats</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/">October</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/30/">30</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>In January 1941, fresh from his electoral triumph, Roosevelt presented Congress with his budget request for 1942.<p/> <p>It included nearly $11 billion in defense spending and total government expenditures of $17 billion.<p/> <p>Later that month, he submitted legislation for what came to be known as the “Lend-Lease” program, authorizing the president to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of “ weapons, food, or equipment to any country “whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.”<p/> <p>As historian David Kennedy wrote in <em>Freedom from Fear,</em> “substituting military production and technology for [American] manpower” was the “essence of the ‘arsenal of democracy’ or short-of-war strategy during the period of neutrality.”<p/> <p>Transferring weapons might avert U.S. intervention, and if the nation did enter the war, the better equipped its allies were, the more fighting they could do—with American forces suffering fewer casualties.<p/><p> The proposal triggered a bitter congressional battle.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/arsenal-democracy-and-fiscal-responsibility-in-the-face-of-war-2/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/arsenal-democracy-and-fiscal-responsibility-in-the-face-of-war-2/" data-text="Just read Arsenal Democracy and Fiscal Responsibility in the Face of War by Robert D. 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We didn't because of the compartmentalization of the various pieces of the intelligence community. So the people who listen to things weren't talking to the people who looked at things who weren't talking to people who analyzed things and so on."<p/> <p>But that didn't mean that the people who had got it so wrong in Beirut were suddenly going to listen to the Activity. <p/> <p>Even within the special operations community, there were senior officers with little regard for Jerry King's unit, and that attitude was once again going to get US servicemen killed. Ever since coming to office, the Reagan administration had railed against the left-wing government of the small Caribbean island of Grenada, complaining that the prime minister Maurice Bishop was too closely aligned to the Soviet Union and Cuba.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/intelligence-support-activity-frustration-from-beirut-to-grenada/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/intelligence-support-activity-frustration-from-beirut-to-grenada/" data-text="Just read Intelligence Support Activity: Frustration from Beirut to Grenada by Michael Smith">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F10%2Fintelligence-support-activity-frustration-from-beirut-to-grenada%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/dogs-of-war/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/9781250009463cropcopy.jpg?w=182&hash=381a2bda52597fcf9ae3076226b77729" alt="Lance Cpl. Adam Fox, an infantryman and dog handler with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, supervises Cpl. Jett, an improvised explosive device detection dog, while he sniffs for explosives here, October 23. Fox, a 21-year-old native of Meriden, Conn., and Jett, a chocolate Labrador retriever, work together to protect Marines at their post from IED threats. The IED detection team spends up to 35 hours a week on various drills, honing their communications skills and Jett’s extraordinary detection abilities. Photo Credit: Lance Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez. Caption credit: DVIDSHUB." title="Lance Cpl. Adam Fox, an infantryman and dog handler with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, supervises Cpl. Jett, an improvised explosive device detection dog, while he sniffs for explosives here, October 23. Fox, a 21-year-old native of Meriden, Conn., and Jett, a chocolate Labrador retriever, work together to protect Marines at their post from IED threats. The IED detection team spends up to 35 hours a week on various drills, honing their communications skills and Jett’s extraordinary detection abilities. Photo Credit: Lance Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez. Caption credit: DVIDSHUB."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/dogs-of-war/">Dogs of War</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/lisa-rogak/" title="Posts by Lisa Rogak">Lisa Rogak</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/">October</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/25/">25</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Advanced training separates civilian dog training from the specific skills that the military requires.<p/> <p>“Dogs who make it in the military working dogs are trained to overcome typical dog behavior,” said Joel Townsend. “For instance, when passing by the entry to a dark building, most dogs will tuck their tail and turn away. A military dog is trained to enter that building, as the handler’s eyes and ears, to recon and alert his partner to whatever is inside.”<p/> <p>The vast majority of military working dogs begin training at Lackland Air Force Base, which contains 90 training areas and laboratories spread across 400 acres, with 691 kennel spaces, averaging about 800 dogs in residence at any one time. Over 125 Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force personnel train both dogs and handlers for all branches of the military as well as for the other federal agencies.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/dogs-of-war/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/dogs-of-war/" data-text="Just read Dogs of War by Lisa Rogak">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F10%2Fdogs-of-war%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/iran-backed-terrorism-in-lebanon/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/cropcopy76.jpg?w=182&hash=b59ab727d5f29ba97bc11db6726b5fea" alt="An aerial view of the remains of the Marine battalion Landing Team headquarters and barracks at Beirut International Airport. The building was destroyed by a terrorist bomb attack. Credit: Gun. Sgt. Lucas. Caption: Defense Imagery." title="An aerial view of the remains of the Marine battalion Landing Team headquarters and barracks at Beirut International Airport. The building was destroyed by a terrorist bomb attack. Credit: Gun. Sgt. Lucas. Caption: Defense Imagery."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/iran-backed-terrorism-in-lebanon/">Iran-Backed Terrorism in Lebanon</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/alireza-jafarzadeh/" title="Posts by Alireza Jafarzadeh">Alireza Jafarzadeh</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/">October</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/23/">23</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>The 1983 U.S. embassy attack was the first of a rapid-fire series of Iran coordinated attacks against Americans in Lebanon in the mid-1980s. Six months later, a truck bomb much like the one that struck the embassy blew up the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut, killing 241 marines. <p/> <p>The U.S. district judge who ruled in 2003 that Iran was responsible for the attack and therefore owed damage payments to the victims’ families called the bombing “the most deadly state-sponsored terrorist attack made against United States citizens before September 11, 2001.”<p/> <p>The judge, Royce C. Lamberth, based his ruling on evidence gathered after the October 1983 attack that proved that Iran had approved and funded the Marine headquarters bombing. “Lamberth concluded that Hezbollah was formed under the auspices of the Iranian government, was completely reliant on Iran in 1983 and assisted Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security agents in carrying out the operation,” CNN reported.<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/iran-backed-terrorism-in-lebanon/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/iran-backed-terrorism-in-lebanon/" data-text="Just read Iran-Backed Terrorism in Lebanon by Alireza Jafarzadeh">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div> <iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915if_/http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commandposts.com%2F2011%2F10%2Firan-backed-terrorism-in-lebanon%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=90&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:20px;"></iframe></dd> </dl> <dl class="post-item"> <dt class="category-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/" title="View all posts in Focus On">Focus On</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/category/focus-on/intel/" title="View all posts in Intel" rel="category tag">Intel</a></dt> <dd class="post-thumb"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/october-23-1983-the-marines-in-beirut/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915im_/http://www.commandposts.com/images/wp-content/files_mf/crop96.jpg?w=182&hash=fb3631634548157b16181c1fecf07e16" alt="October 23, 1983 Beirut bombing. Credit: Marines Corps." title="October 23, 1983 Beirut bombing. Credit: Marines Corps."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/october-23-1983-the-marines-in-beirut/">October 23, 1983: The Marines in Beirut</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/thomas-l-friedman/" title="Posts by Thomas L. Friedman">Thomas L. Friedman</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/">October</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/22/">22</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>In the wake of the Marine bombing, the Italian ambassador to Lebanon, Franco Lucioli Ottieri, remarked to me, “You know how they say people are always fighting the last war? Well, you Americans have been preparing yourselves for the confrontation on the Eastern front.<p/> <p>"That’s fine. The Eastern front with the Soviet Union is now secured.<p/> <p>"But you are deplorably unprepared for the war in the Third World.<p/> <p>"You are like a big elephant. If you are up against another elephant, you are fine. But if you are fighting a snake, you have real problems. <p/> <p>"Your whole mentality and puritanical nature hold you back. <p/> <p>"Lebanon was full of snakes.”<p/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/october-23-1983-the-marines-in-beirut/"> [More...]</a></dd> <dd class="social-media"><div style="float:left;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CommandPosts" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/october-23-1983-the-marines-in-beirut/" data-text="Just read October 23, 1983: The Marines in Beirut by Thomas L. 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Kennedy during a Cuban Missile Crisis Meeting, with the word " missiles" written down several times. oct. 25, 1962, credit: national archives."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/cuban-missile-crisis/">Cuban Missile Crisis</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/alex-von-tunzelmann/" title="Posts by Alex Von Tunzelmann">Alex Von Tunzelmann</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/">October</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/21/">21</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>At noon Washington time on 22 October, it was announced that President Kennedy would be appearing on television at 7:00 pm to address the nation.<p/> <p>In Moscow, it was early evening. “They’ve probably discovered our missiles,” said Khrushchev to his son, Sergei. 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Credit: Library of Congress."/></a></dd> <dt class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/ground-to-ground-missiles-found-in-cuba/">Ground-to-Ground Missiles Found in Cuba</a></dt> <dd class="meta">By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/gus-russo/" title="Posts by Gus Russo">Gus Russo</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/author/stephen-molton/" title="Posts by Stephen Molton">Stephen Molton</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/">October</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/10/21/">21</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111104233915/http://www.commandposts.com/2011/">2011</a> </dd> <dd class="the-excerpt"><p>Early on October 16, McGeorge Bundy was at the White House, staring at a raft of oversized aerial reconnaissance photographs.<p/> <p>The photos seemed to prove that there were ground-to-ground missiles embedded in the landscape of Cuba.<p/> <p>They had been taken on Sunday, just two days earlier—coincidentally, the same day that Bundy appeared on ABC’s Issues and Answers to forswear any evidence that the Soviets had planted a “major offensive capability” in Castro’s kingdom.<p/> <p>Just before 9:00 A.M., he punched the button on his intercom and asked the secretary to alert the president that he was on his way up to the family quarters on the second floor. <p/> <p>There he found Jack half dressed, and showed him the packet of photos, pointing out the missile sites. 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