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	Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.) on Iraq Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a Senior Fellow with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University. As Director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, General Odom was Military Assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked upon strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1954, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. Gen. Odom spoke on January 12, 2007 at a forum on Iraq sponsored by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
	Lieutenant General Caldwell at Dole Institute Lieutenant General Caldwell currently serves as the commander of the Combined Arms Center at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, the command that oversees the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers, and training programs located throughout the United States. The Combined Arms Center is also responsible for development of the Army's doctrinal manuals, training of the Army's commissioned and noncommissioned officers, oversight of major collective training exercises, integration of battle command systems and concepts, and supervision of the Army's Center for the collection and dissemination of lessons learned. His prior deployments and assignments include serving as Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects and spokesperson for the Multi-National Force -- Iraq, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division; Senior Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Deputy Director for Operations for the United States Pacific Command; Assistant Division Commander, 25th Infantry Division; Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Commander, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division; a White House Fellow, The White House; Politico-Military Officer in Haiti during OPERATION RESTORE/UPHOLD DEMOCRACY; Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division during OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM; and Chief of Plans for the 82nd Airborne Division during OPERATION JUST CAUSE in Panama. About.... Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV Lieutenant General Caldwell's decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Bronze Star (with one Oak Leaf Cluster), and the Louisiana Cross of Merit. Lieutenant General Caldwell graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1976. He earned Masters Degrees from the United States Naval Postgraduate School and from the School for Advanced Military Studies at the United States Army Command and General Staff College. Lieutenant General Caldwell also attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a Senior Service College Fellow. To watch full program go to our website at www.doleinstitute.org and go to Program Video Library
	US top command in Iraq changes - 16 Sept 08 US defense secretary Robert Gates has arrived in Baghdad to transfer command from General David Petraeus to Lieutenant-General Ray Odierno. Gates says the number of US troops in Iraq will continue to shrink, and the challenge for Odierno is to preserve the security gains made by the U.S. Al Jazeera's Omar Al-Saleh reports.
	LT. Col. Robert Bowman at American Scholars Symposium pt 1 Robert M. Bowman (born 1934) was the former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Despite his involvement with space programs and defense, he emerged as an early public critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, also aka "Star Wars") during the Ronald Reagan administration. On The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, he called it "the ultimate military lunacy, easily overwhelmed and vulnerable".[3] Bowman founded the Institute for Space and Security Studies, and its publication Space & Security News (1983) (ISSN 1071-2569), and authored two books on the subject of SDI. He is also a critic of an outgrowth of the SDI program, the Bush administration's proposed National Missile Defense.[4] For several years he has been active with Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War as a speaker.[5][6][7] He had also been a member of the Peace Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.[8] In 1998, Project Censored cited Bowman's article "Our Continuing War Against Iraq," in the May 1998 issue of Space and Security News as one of the few (along with Bill Blum of the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Dennis Bernstein) covering what they deemed the fifth most censored story, "U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction Linked to the Deaths of Half a Million Children."[9] The WMDs referred to are the biological samples sent to Iraq from the United States up to 1989, and use of depleted uranium during the Gulf War. He is a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, founded in January 2006 by James H. Fetzer. Because of the beliefs Bowman holds regarding U.S. complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks, he is also part of the movement to impeach George W. Bush. He spoke at a September 11, 2005 rally in New York City held by members of the New York 9/11 Truth Movement.[10] More recently, Dr. Bowman joined Veterans for 9/11 Truth. Visit www.theblackpacket.com for more exclusives.
	1950's Cold War US Airforce Training Video - Nuclear Weapons The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of America's bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992. SAC also controlled the infrastructure necessary to support their operations (such as tanker aircraft to fuel the bombers and, until 1959, fighter escorts). On October 19, 1948 Lt. General Curtis Emerson LeMay took over as commander of SAC, and set about a dramatic rebuilding of the command's forces, as well as their mission. LeMay, who had masterminded the American attacks on the Japanese mainland during the war (including the firebombing of Tokyo and other cities), was a staunch believer in the power of strategic bombing: the destruction of an enemy's cities and industrial centers. LeMay believed that the existence of the atomic bomb made this type of warfare the only workable strategy, rendering battlefield conflicts essentially obsolete. Under LeMay's command, SAC became the cornerstone of American national strategic policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This policy was based primarily on nuclear deterrence. In 1962 there were 282,723 personnel assigned (217,650 airmen, 28,531 civilians and 38,542 officers). SAC's motto became "Peace is Our Profession," symbolizing the intention to maintain peace through the threat of overwhelming force. LeMay was not a great believer in mutually assured destruction (MAD): he felt strongly (particularly in SAC's early years, when Soviet nuclear capability was still in its formative stages) that SAC should be prepared to carry out a preemptive and overwhelming attack on the USSR before the Soviets had a chance to do the same to the United States. From its initial handful of wartime B-29 Superfortress bombers (only a few of which were "Silverplate" aircraft capable of dropping a nuclear weapon), SAC transitioned to its first, truly intercontinental bomber, the Convair B-36. Though a major improvement over the under powered B-29, the B-36, with its six piston and four jet engines, was slow to get to its target. The insignia of The Strategic Air Command was designed by Staff Sergeant R. T. Barnes, then assigned to the 92nd Bombardment Wing, in 1951. Submitted in a Command-wide contest, it was chosen as the winner by a three judge panel. The judges were: General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Command [CINCSAC]; General Thomas S. Power, Vice Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Command; and Brigadier General A. W. Kissner, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. Staff Sergeant Barnes' winning design netted him a $100 United States Savings Bond.
	US Airforce Training Video-Nuclear Weapons Broken Arrows 1/2 The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of America's bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992. SAC also controlled the infrastructure necessary to support their operations (such as tanker aircraft to fuel the bombers and, until 1959, fighter escorts). On October 19, 1948 Lt. General Curtis Emerson LeMay took over as commander of SAC, and set about a dramatic rebuilding of the command's forces, as well as their mission. LeMay, who had masterminded the American attacks on the Japanese mainland during the war (including the firebombing of Tokyo and other cities), was a staunch believer in the power of strategic bombing: the destruction of an enemy's cities and industrial centers. LeMay believed that the existence of the atomic bomb made this type of warfare the only workable strategy, rendering battlefield conflicts essentially obsolete. Under LeMay's command, SAC became the cornerstone of American national strategic policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This policy was based primarily on nuclear deterrence. In 1962 there were 282,723 personnel assigned (217,650 airmen, 28,531 civilians and 38,542 officers). SAC's motto became "Peace is Our Profession," symbolizing the intention to maintain peace through the threat of overwhelming force. LeMay was not a great believer in mutually assured destruction (MAD): he felt strongly (particularly in SAC's early years, when Soviet nuclear capability was still in its formative stages) that SAC should be prepared to carry out a preemptive and overwhelming attack on the USSR before the Soviets had a chance to do the same to the United States. From its initial handful of wartime B-29 Superfortress bombers (only a few of which were "Silverplate" aircraft capable of dropping a nuclear weapon), SAC transitioned to its first, truly intercontinental bomber, the Convair B-36. Though a major improvement over the under powered B-29, the B-36, with its six piston and four jet engines, was slow to get to its target. The insignia of The Strategic Air Command was designed by Staff Sergeant R. T. Barnes, then assigned to the 92nd Bombardment Wing, in 1951. Submitted in a Command-wide contest, it was chosen as the winner by a three judge panel. The judges were: General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Command [CINCSAC]; General Thomas S. Power, Vice Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Command; and Brigadier General A. W. Kissner, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. Staff Sergeant Barnes' winning design netted him a $100 United States Savings Bond.
	SriLankan Army Commander Speaks to US military (2007/11/06) Sri Lanka Army Commander speaks to senior US military officers & meets senior state officials Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka during his recent visit to the US met a galaxy of US statesmen and military chiefs, including Ambassador Steven Mann, acting Assistant Secretary of State for South & Central Asian Affairs and Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, US Department of State. On an invitation extended by US Chief of Army Staff General George W. Casey and the Government of USA, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka made history by talking to a large gathering of middle rung officers of the US Army on "Counter Terrorist Operations". Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka was the first Commander of the Sri Lanka Army to have addressed such a symposium attended by the cream of the US Army while attending the USA Command and General Staff College (USACGSC). During Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka's stay, he also received the rare privilege of sharing views with Mr. James Clad, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South Asia, Major General Philip M. Breedlove (USAF), Vice Director Strategic Plans and Policy and Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell, IV Commandant of the USACGSC. Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka visited the Department of State, the Pentagon and the USA Command and General Staff College (USACGSC), Fort Leavenworth and several other military establishments. Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka delivering his near one-hour lecture and presentation to the senior US military officers on "Counter Terrorist Operations" touched on a wide variety of subjects such as Forms of Terrorism, Nature of Terrorism, Counter Terrorism, Challenges, etc. Differentiating terrorism from insurgency, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka told the gathering that Magnitude of Terrorists' military campaign, Level of Threat against Law and Order, Level of Military Counter attack, Political Motives and Involvement of Public Support are factors to be reckoned with before any counter-operations are planned against terrorism, keeping the civilian factor well in mind. "Those with different political goals which cannot be achieved by democratic means can resort to terror by taking to arms, etc and resort to attacks, killings, destructions, intimidation, etc. Once they are organized strongly and heavily armed, they can even confront the Armed Forces/ Police, etc and indulged themselves in violence. Such terrorists can even take control over certain areas with less or no presence of government Armed Forces and terrorize the Government administrative machinery to ensure the government authority is non-existing or ineffective. Even internal terrorism need to extend its activities into International arena for the purpose of worldwide support."
	US Airforce Training Video-Nuclear Weapons Broken Arrows 2/2 The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was the operational establishment of the United States Air Force in charge of America's bomber-based and ballistic missile-based strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992. SAC also controlled the infrastructure necessary to support their operations (such as tanker aircraft to fuel the bombers and, until 1959, fighter escorts). On October 19, 1948 Lt. General Curtis Emerson LeMay took over as commander of SAC, and set about a dramatic rebuilding of the command's forces, as well as their mission. LeMay, who had masterminded the American attacks on the Japanese mainland during the war (including the firebombing of Tokyo and other cities), was a staunch believer in the power of strategic bombing: the destruction of an enemy's cities and industrial centers. LeMay believed that the existence of the atomic bomb made this type of warfare the only workable strategy, rendering battlefield conflicts essentially obsolete. Under LeMay's command, SAC became the cornerstone of American national strategic policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This policy was based primarily on nuclear deterrence. In 1962 there were 282,723 personnel assigned (217,650 airmen, 28,531 civilians and 38,542 officers). SAC's motto became "Peace is Our Profession," symbolizing the intention to maintain peace through the threat of overwhelming force. LeMay was not a great believer in mutually assured destruction (MAD): he felt strongly (particularly in SAC's early years, when Soviet nuclear capability was still in its formative stages) that SAC should be prepared to carry out a preemptive and overwhelming attack on the USSR before the Soviets had a chance to do the same to the United States. From its initial handful of wartime B-29 Superfortress bombers (only a few of which were "Silverplate" aircraft capable of dropping a nuclear weapon), SAC transitioned to its first, truly intercontinental bomber, the Convair B-36. Though a major improvement over the under powered B-29, the B-36, with its six piston and four jet engines, was slow to get to its target. The insignia of The Strategic Air Command was designed by Staff Sergeant R. T. Barnes, then assigned to the 92nd Bombardment Wing, in 1951. Submitted in a Command-wide contest, it was chosen as the winner by a three judge panel. The judges were: General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Command [CINCSAC]; General Thomas S. Power, Vice Commander-In-Chief, Strategic Air Command; and Brigadier General A. W. Kissner, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. Staff Sergeant Barnes' winning design netted him a $100 United States Savings Bond
	Retired Lt. General Ricardo S. Sanchez Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, U.S. Army, retired, who served as the top American commander of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq following the U.S invasion in March 2003, delivered the Democratic Radio Address on Saturday, November 24. In his address, General Sanchez discusses the war in Iraq and the need for a new direction that focuses on a diplomatic and political strategy.
	Handling the Abu Ghraib Scandal - General Ricardo Sanchez Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/05/07/General_Ricardo_Sanchez_on_Commanding_the_Forces_in_Iraq General Ricardo Sanchez discusses his experiences as Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq during the breaking of the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal. ----- General Ricardo Sanchez was the commander of Coalition forces in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. In this conversation, General Sanchez discusses the challenges of managing Iraq, rising from a poor family in Texas to the highest ranks of the military, and a range of other issues - Oxonian Society Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez is a retired United States Army general who served as the commander of coalition forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the United States Army when he retired on November 1, 2006.
	Making It Happen- Lt. Rajiv: US Army Rajiv Srinivasan, 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, Climbed the highest Free standing mountain- Mt. K & co-founded beyondorders.org. Rajiv talks about his childhood and different locations of his upbringing.
	Foreign Military to be used in the USA 2008 CAP is the name of the plan. Deschesne Meets with General Libby to Discuss Civil Assistance Plan The so-called "Civil Assistance Plan" (CAP) allows Canadian soldiers to function with civil authorities in the United States and United States soldiers in that capacity in Canada during a declared emergency. The CAP was not authorized by Congressional legislation, or as a treaty between two countries by the U.S. Senate. It also seems that the respective State governors and their adjutant generals weren't apprised of the agreement either. Recently, the Fort Fairfield Journal questioned the Maine Emergency Management agency for their thoughts on the plan, a plan which they weren't even aware of. According to a NORTHCOM press release, published on their website, the CAP was signed by U.S. Air Force General, Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command and NORTHCOM and Canadian Air Force Lt.-General Marc Dumais on February 14, 2008 in a ceremony at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Alternate news media covered the story on the internet as early as February 21 and the Fort Fairfield Journal was made aware of it by its nationwide network of independent, volunteer researchers on February 24.