In the news release, the militants said they carried out the operation in Algeria because it allowed French forces to use its air space in attacking Islamist militants in Mali.
The news release said they chose to carry out the operation in Algeria because the country's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had allowed French military forces to cross Algerian air space in attacking Mali.
The militants said they carried out the operation because Algeria allowed French forces to use its air space in attacking Islamist militants in Mali.
As with the surge in Iraq, these forces will be in place for a limited time to provide space for the Afghans to build their capacity and secure their own future.
We must fully field and fund the next generation of military systems to ensure U.S. forces retain dominance in the full battle space: On the battlefield, in the skies above it, and in the waters surrounding it.
"We will also invest -- invest in cyber, invest in space, invest in unmanned systems, invest in special forces operations, " he said.
In the long run, he must also make political space in Rwanda for the Hutu rebel forces who maraud through eastern Congo and give General Nkunda a pretext for his depredations.
To be sure, there are potential adversaries such as North Korea or Iraq which could try to employ space-based assets against our forces in a possible war, including for communications, navigation, targeting or surveillance missions.
But Sherwood cautions that the same human dark forces that haunt us here will logically dog human settlements in space.
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The story -- about a giant robot from space who must choose to overcome the darker forces in his programming -- turns out to have allegorical significance, thanks to recent events.
In Operation Desert Storm, Coalition forces enjoyed the uncontested use of space-based assets.
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As the planets congealed, gravitational forces and particle collisions created the high temperatures necessary to melt metals floating around in space, and minerals began their diversification.
Completion delays, safety concerns and new requirements for additional secure office space for the U.S. ambassador and the commander of multinational forces in Iraq delayed the project by six months.
If, in the next few weeks, General Ralph Eberhart now the head of the armed forces' Space Command is named as the next head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it will be a powerful sign that Mr Rumsfeld is prepared to spend a lot of whatever money he can raise on making sure that America takes command of space.
To the extent that -- we are fighting the Taliban in our effort to disrupt, defeat and dismantle al Qaeda, we're fighting the Taliban in our effort to give the Afghan government space that it needs to build up its security forces and stabilize its control over the country so that we can transfer security lead over to Afghan security forces.
Lessons must be drawn from the decades-long conflict in Somalia, he added, where African forces took the lead in fighting terrorism and the international community focused on providing humanitarian and diplomatic support to create the space for a "legitimate government" to function.
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