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| DOUBLE DUTY — The fast combat
support ship USS Seattle (center) provides fuel
and cargo to the guided missile frigate USS Underwood
(background) and to the aircraft carrier USS John
F. Kennedy during a replenishment at sea. The Kennedy
battlegroup is conducting combat missions in support
of Operation Enduring Freedom. Photo by Photographer’s
Mate 1st Class Jim Hampshire, USN |
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'The Ability to Adapt
will be Critical'
When Dealing with Future Threats |
| By Linda D. Kozaryn / American
Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON
— What dangers loom in the days ahead? How might future
adversaries attack the United States?
Dealing with future threats will take more
than just new, high-tech weapons, says the top man at the Pentagon.
It will take new ways of thinking and fighting.
"The ability to adapt will be critical
in a world defined by surprise and uncertainty," U.S. Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld wrote in an article for Foreign
Affairs magazine. "As we painfully learned on Sept. 11,
the challenges of the new century are not nearly as predictable
as were those of the last."
As future enemies acquire weapons of increasing
power and range, he warned in the article, which was published
in the May-June issue, attacks could grow far more deadly than
those of Sept. 11. He said America's new challenge is to defend
itself against the unknown, the uncertain, the unseen and the
unexpected. To accomplish what may seem an impossible task,
he said, requires putting aside comfortable ways of thinking
and planning, and taking risks, and trying new things.
Using the war in Afghanistan as an example,
Rumsfeld said this first war of the 21st century showed that
even the horse cavalry could be used in previously unimaginable
ways. U.S. and coalition forces used today's laser-guided weapons,
40-year-old B-52 bombers and men with guns on horses in unprecedented
ways to defeat a dangerous, determined adversary, he noted.
"What won the battle for Mazar-e Sharif
and set in motion the Taliban's fall from power," Rumsfeld
said, "was a combination of the U.S. special forces; the
most advanced, precision-guided munitions in the U.S. arsenal,
delivered by U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps crews; and
the courage of valiant, one-legged Afghan fighters on horseback."
The secretary does not suggest, however, that
the Afghan combination is a model for the future.
"The lesson from the Afghan experience
is not that the U.S. Army should be stockpiling saddles,"
he said. "Rather, it is that preparing for the future will
require new ways of thinking and the development of forces and
capabilities that can adapt quickly to new challenges and unexpected
circumstances."
Even before Al Qaeda terrorists employed American
jetliners as weapons, he said, U.S. defense officials were forming
a new strategy for the new security environment. They had moved
away from the two-major-theater war approach that called for,
he wrote, "maintaining two massive occupation forces capable
of marching on and occupying the capitals of two aggressors
at the same time and changing their regimes." More
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| CABLE GUYS — U.S. and Canadian soldiers install telephone cable at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Photo by Sgt. Todd M. Roy, USA |
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Comptroller:
Military
Needs Money Now |
| America's war on
global terrorism will go broke if $14 billion in fiscal
2002 budget supplemental money earmarked for the Defense
Department isn't approved by Congress soon, the department's
senior money manager said. Story |
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The Light is Always On
In OEF Chapel Ministry |
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| A welcome sanctuary |
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| A small tent where religious services are held for U.S. personnel in the Persian Gulf averages about 200 people per service. "Not too bad for a small deployed chapel," observes the senior chaplain. Family counseling is also available. Says the chaplain. "People have to deal with a lot of stressful things out here, and we're here to help." Story |
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| Civil Affairs Team Completes
School Project - Civil Affairs Team Mazar-e-Sharif
completed the Gohar Khaton School project in Mazar-e-Sharif.
The project included roof repair, electrical wiring,
interior and exterior painting, and providing desks
and chairs for teachers and students. The school
serves over 1,500 boys and girls ranging in age
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| George W. Simmons |
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George W. Simmons, a retired sales training
manager for Xerox Corp., was a passenger on
American Airlines flight 77 along with his wife
Diane.
He worked for 32 years at
Xerox and enjoyed playing golf and traveling,
sending postcards from all over the world, and
living life to its fullest. He was a member
of the No Bats Baseball Club.
Survivors include his sons
George and Christopher; daughter Deanna; step-sons
Kevin and Brian Long, and brothers Jeff Simmons
and Michael Finneran.
We will not forget him.
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