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US in a 4th generation war
It is a "fourth-generation war" that the United States finds itself engaged in since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, a war without borders or a battlefront. "Transnational" is the word Vice Adm. David C. Nichols Jr. uses to describe President Bush's war on terror. Nichols is deputy commander of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., which controls military strategy for Operation Enduring Freedom in Iraq and the wider war against terrorism and those who seek to advance it. Nichols is second in command to Army Gen. John Abizaid, who oversees the entire operation of CENTCOM, as it is known. Nichols, a Knoxville native and graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was visiting McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base Friday under security precautions that rival those of a presidential visit. At a morning briefing, Nichols talked about the new face of war, calling it a "clash of ideology" as opposed to a "conflict between nations." Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-27 |
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