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NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of
Defense
Department of Defense Releases the National Defense and the
National Military Strategies The Department of Defense (DoD)
released its National Defense Strategy (NDS) and National Military
Strategy (NMS) today. These strategies outline an active, layered
approach to the defense of the nation and its interests. They seek
to create conditions conducive to respect for the sovereignty of
nations and a secure international order favorable to freedom,
democracy, and economic opportunity. The strategies promote close
cooperation with others around the world who are committed to these
goals and address mature and emerging threats.
"Since 9/11, the Department has updated its strategic thinking --
incorporating lessons learned from Iraq, Afghanistan and other
operations," said Douglas J. Feith, under secretary of defense for
policy. "We now have a strategy that positions us better to handle
strategic uncertainty, recognizes the value of measures to resolve
problems before they become crises and crises before they become
wars, and emphasizes the importance of building partnership
capacity to address security problems."
The NDS is issued periodically, and the NMS is updated every two
years. These documents outline how the Department supports the
president's National Security Strategy and provide the strategic
context for the ongoing Quadrennial Defense Review.
Link to NDS:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/d20050318nds1.pdf
Link to NMS:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/d20050318nms.pdf
03/18/2005
Intelligence Chiefs Outline Threats, Challenges
By Terri Lukach
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2005 - The nation's top civilian and military
intelligence chiefs outlined the primary threats to U.S. national
security in the post 9/11 world, as well as the major obstacles to
overcoming them, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services
Committee here March 17.
In a joint appearance before the committee, Director of Central
Intelligence Porter Goss and Defense Intelligence Agency Director
Navy Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby agreed that terrorist extremists
remain the greatest threat to the United States and its allies.
03/18/2005
Wounded Veteran Issues A Plea
By Dennis Camire, Advertiser Washington Bureau
Honolulu Advertiser
WASHINGTON She lost her right leg above the knee and her left
leg below the knee when a rocket-propelled grenade took down her
Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq.
She is now undergoing intense treatment and rehabilitation, but
Maj. Ladda "Tammy" Duckworth left Walter Reed Army Medical Center
yesterday to appear before a Senate panel not to talk about
her own challenges but those facing the Department of Veterans
Affairs in caring for wounded service people.
The McKinley High and University of Hawai'i graduate told the
Senate Veterans Committee that the VA department faces the
challenge of providing high-quality care to wounded people as they
move on to civilian life.
"As disabled soldiers transition to veteran status, we will look to
the VA to provide continued access to healthcare, health
technology, assisted-living devices and social services," said
Duckworth, who was piloting a Black Hawk helicopter on Nov. 12,
2004, when she nearly lost her life.
The explosion took her legs and almost completely destroyed her
right arm, breaking it in three places and tearing tissue from the
back side of it.
A plea for resources
Duckworth, 36, a member of the Illinois Army National Guard, is
being fitted with prosthetic legs and is undergoing rehabilitation
on her arm now held together with titanium plates and screws
at Walter Reed.
She told the Senate Veterans Committee that the VA faces the
challenge of providing care at the high level set by the military
healthcare facilities.
"This is a challenge that the VA can meet if it is given enough
resources and if it listens to disabled service members and puts
forth the effort to meet our needs," Duckworth said.
The committee was exploring issues faced by military people who
have been injured in the war and others without apparent injuries
who may later seek VA health services.
Sen. Barack Obama,
D-Ill., said the 11,285 wounded in Iraq so far are "our heroes, and
they deserve our greatest gratitude ..."
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