David Petraeus, is scheduled this week to update Congress on the military situation in Iraq.
It is also important to recognize the difference in the military situation between 1991 and 2003.
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His remarks reflect the complexity of the political and military situation in that region.
But after that the military situation subsided into stalemate, with neither side showing aggressive intent.
So the military situation, as the Americans see it, is hopeful but fluid.
What remains of his air force has been used for limited harassment, so the imposition of a no-fly zone would not change the military situation on the ground.
Unless this trend is reversed and strong leadership is enacted, the United States will again find themselves in a military situation much like Secretary Lehman did when he took over the Navy, underfunded, undersized, and out-of-date.
Speaking afterwards Blair said aid was now going in to Afghanistan at a far greater rate than ever before and that food was being delivered to the people who most needed it, as a result of the changing military situation.
The U.S. military considers the security situation stable, Rear Adm.
We can have hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground for 100 years, but that will not change the fact that there is no military solution to the situation in Iraq.
Ms. MARINA OTTAWAY (Director, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): I don't think very much because there is agreement that there cannot be a military solution or a purely military solution to the situation in Iraq.
We're never going to manage the situation through military or security measures alone, there has to be a political process and I think if one does come together then I think those divisions, that have obviously been apparent in the last few months, can be healed.
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Actually, the issue is really the conduct of operations against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil, but Benson and Weber (who declined to speak with the War Games blog) depict a convoluted situation where the military intervenes in South Carolina using techniques honed by hunting Taliban, while still trying to remain within the law.
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In the past whenever there has been civil unrest in Pakistan, the military has managed to control the situation.
Of course, quite the opposite situation exists for the military in battle.
The U.S. military is "monitoring" the situation, but has no plans to get involved, the commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq Maj.
"It is not clear if the Pakistani military is trained and even equipped to go into a situation like that, " she said, adding that even the United States military "would have to think twice" about such an offensive.
It doesn't look like military trying to protect or stabilize a situation.
U.S. officials have ruled out direct military intervention, saying it might make the situation worse.
Having been a career military officer, Peters quickly saw the real situation.
Oh his arrival back in Nigeria, Mr Jonathan is set to head a meeting reviewing Nigeria's security situation with the country's military and police chiefs.
The reason for that I'm told was that the British government has offered the Algerian government advice on how to deal with a siege situation, either negotiations or a military solution.
Kolthoff's situation is becoming more common among military personnel.
America has enough on its military and diplomatic plate, without allowing a situation like the Georgia mess to spin out of control, due to a combination of sloppy thinking, inattention, lack of focus and mindless preoccupations.
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The aid agency provides food and relief supplies to some 80 percent of Gaza's 1.5 million people, but it says it has been unable to reach many Palestinians or assess the situation in Gaza during the Israeli military offensive.
Many in the West argue that given Egypt's increasingly dire economic situation, there is no way the military will turn its back on the US and Europe.
Now there's lots of things we can do to help the situation, and they're not all military.
However, Mr Llwyd conceded that the presence of the military alone would not have been enough to resolve the situation.
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