Bryan Whitman
Bryan Whitman
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We don't want to take unnecessary risk. We do make sure that when we exercise military force we use the right resources, sufficient to get the job done. It is a decision made by the commander on the ground,
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There's no doubt that there has been a very porous border in the west (with Syria), and military operations have focussed on that over the past year.
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My experience is the military when these things are reported to them, work aggressively to resolve them. Not by way of trying to make any excuses, it's clear that our processes could be shored up to try to prevent some of these from happening.
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My experience is the military ... when these things are reported to them, work aggressively to resolve them.
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With respect to stories that I have seen that try to characterize military planning with respect to Iran, I would characterize as wild speculation.
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What this case demonstrates is what the military has said it would do all along, and that is to hold those accountable who violated policy, procedures, uniform code of military justice, and did things that were inappropriate and wrong.
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The department believes that a further release of images could only further inflame and possibly incite unnecessary violence in the world and would endanger our military men and women that are serving around the world.
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As we've seen over the past many months, these individual cases (are) coming to trial and being disposed of in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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What is certain is the U.S. military remains capable of executing every mission it is assigned.
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Our modern weapons systems use advance technologies that provide the US military with cutting edge capabilities, and to the extent that information is shared with inappropriate entities, that could be harmful to our national defense.
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We typically don't talk about the movement of detainees except when they are being transferred or released to another country. We don't typically talk about the transit for security reasons.
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An Iraqi special operations force conducted a raid in one of the neighborhoods in northeast Baghdad to disrupt a terrorist cell that had been responsible for not only conducting attacks on Iraqi security forces and coalition forces but also in kidnapping Iraqi civilians in the local area.
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As they take over responsibility for things there are still US forces in the region. US forces remain in supporting roles with the ability to offer a surge capability to Iraqi security forces.
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Countering WMD has been a priority for the department in terms of making sure that our future forces are organized, trained, equipped and resourced to deal with all aspects of threats that are posed by WMD.