Defense Plans for Parallel Warfare
The Army, Air Force, and Navy have created new detailed
processes, called Parallel Warfare, for joint operations
coordinated in strategy and tactics specifying possible
formations, squadrons, and fleet movements to meet
political and military objectives.<More>
Political Consensus on CDS Role
Defense minister Pranab Mukherjee is planning to
implement a decision by the Kargil Oversight Committee,
which investigated the Kargil War, to create Chief of
Defense Staff (CDS) as a single-point military adviser
to the government restructuring higher defense
hierarchies.<More>
Taliban Offers Truce to Pak
A rebel 'commander' of the new Pakistani Taliban running
wild in Pakistan offered truce to allow elders to broker
a settlement after months of fierce fighting "as the
government wants to set up a tribal jirga (council of
elders) here.”<More>
Nepal Terrorists Want Merger with
Army
Nepal Maoist leaders are visiting
Katmandu after briefing cadre in
the West on June 16 dialogue and
will meet Prime Minister Girija
Prasad Koirala and other prominent
intelligentsia ahead of the next
summit probing opinions and
assessing space for their
movement.<More>
Informal Indo-Sino Boundary Talks
Special Representative to
India-China boundary talks (also
National Security Advisor K.
Narayanan) is in China for
official-level talks to continue
in-camera sessions under
“political parameters” set during
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit
to New Delhi in April 2005.<More>
CIA Conned on Iraq Germ
Threat
The US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) finally
admitted that the main
inspiration who prompted the
US to invade Iraq spreading
fear of mobile chemical labs
capable of launching germs
is “mentally unstable” “an
Iraqi defector suspected of
being mentally unstable and
a liar.”<More>
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