Even the army times is reporting on the rigged war games.

War games rigged?
General says Millennium Challenge 02 ‘was almost entirely scripted’

The most elaborate war game the U.S. military has ever held was rigged so that it appeared to validate the modern, joint-service war-fighting concepts it was supposed to be testing, according to the retired Marine lieutenant general who commanded the game’s Opposing Force.

That general, Paul Van Riper, said he worries the United States will send troops into combat using doctrine and weapons systems based on false conclusions from the recently concluded Millennium Challenge 02. He was so frustrated with the rigged exercise that he said he quit midway through the game. [read more]

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Shilling for the House of Saud
Former U.S. ambassadors have become Saudi Arabia's apologists

It has been another dreadful month for United States- Saudi Arabia relations. On Aug. 6, word leaked out that senior Defence Department officials had been recently advised by Laurent Murawiec of the Rand Corporation that "Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain," and represent "the kernel of evil, the prime mover [and] the most dangerous opponent" in the Middle East (as opposed to, say, Iraq). [read more]

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US Stranglehold on Middle East tightens

The United States is keeping all its military options open in relation to a future conflict with Iraq. The deployment of significant numbers of US service personnel probably now in the region of 100,000, the quiet mobilization of US reserves and the steady build-up of naval and air combat assets have largely gone unnoticed by the general public and strangely unreported by the news media. It is now a force capable of launching a surprise and sizeable attack within a matter of weeks. The breadth of US deployment and bases in the Middle East is impressive and now includes some 10,000 in Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Special Forces operating alongside Russian units in Georgia, a major build-up in Turkey with powerful ground and air assets at Incirlik near Adana and more importantly some 2,000 US Special Forces deployed inside the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq alongside some 5,000 Commando's from the Turkish 1st and 2nd Brigades. [read more]

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