Washington: Rebalancing its security posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the US says it is investing in a long-term strategic partnership with India to support its ability to serve as a regional economic anchor and security provider.
The US defence department's "commitment to the Asia-Pacific region is part of a broader US Government focus", the Pentagon said Wednesday as it rolled out a $527 billion budget for fiscal 2014 starting October 1.
The budget provides $4.6 billion in support of re-balancing toward the Asia-Pacific, indicating a $843 million increase over the previous year.
"US military engagements in the Asia-Pacific region complement these efforts with investments in presence operations, posture, partner capacity building and defence diplomacy," the Pentagon said....
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04:07 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Senior US military officials said an Afghan teenager had killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck. Two officials said on Monday that Seargent Michael Cable, 26, was guarding a meeting of Afghan and US officials in Nangarhar province when the stabbing occurred. ...
07:33 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Russia said on Friday that heightened military activity near North Korea was slipping into a "vicious cycle" that could get out of control, implicitly criticising US bomber flights that followed threats from Pyongyang. ...
06:21 AM, Mar 30, 2013
The stealthy, nuclear-capable US B-2 bomber is a veteran of wars in Iraq and Libya, but it isn't usually a tool of Washington's statecraft. ...
04:27 AM, Mar 30, 2013
North Korea has put its rocket units on standby on Friday to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. ...
05:49 AM, Mar 29, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a show of unity on Monday, shortly after the US military ceded control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan, ending a longstanding irritant in relations between the two countries. ...
07:48 AM, Mar 26, 2013
The number of US troops committing suicide set a record in 2012, exceeding the number of combat deaths, the Pentagon said on Monday. ...
05:29 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Europe's Airbus said on Monday it had beaten Russian competition to be selected as the preferred bidder to supply six A330 aerial refueling tankers to India. ...
12:32 AM, Jan 08, 2013
Truth is, retired Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf didn't care much for his popular "Stormin' Norman" nickname. The seemingly no-nonsense Desert Storm commander's reputed temper with aides and subordinates supposedly earned him that rough-and-ready moniker. But others around the general, who died Thursday in Tampa, Fla, at age 78 of complications from pneumonia, knew him as a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure who preferred the somewhat milder sobriquet given by...
03:38 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Two explosions and shooting were heard at a US base in the Afghan city of Islamabad on Sunday, a Reuters witness said. ...
08:49 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Kabul: Two Americans were killed in Afghanistan during an exchange of fire between NATO-led forces and the Afghan army that may have been the result of a misunderstanding, as the death toll of US military and civilian personnel passed 2,000. A US official, who asked not to be identified, said on Sunday that an American soldier and a civilian contractor had been killed in the incident in eastern Afghanistan, the...
11:10 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Washington: US is close to developing a hypersonic bomber able to reach any target on the globe in under an hour. The US military hopes to fly such hypersonic planes capable of moving at 20 times the speed of sound by 2016, the NBC News reported quoting American officials working on the project. The vehicle would be "recoverable", US government officials working on developing the full-scale rocket plane said. The...
01:57 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Kabul: The Obama administration on Saturday declared Afghanistan the United States' newest "major non-NATO ally," an action designed to facilitate close defence cooperation after US combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014 and as a political statement of support for Afghanistan's long-term stability. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who arrived in Kabul on an unannounced visit to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, disclosed the alliance to diplomats...
09:44 AM, Jul 07, 2012
The US Secret Service and military have been accused of getting prostitutes before President Barack Obama's visit to Colombia. ...
02:09 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: India and US kick-started their two week-long joint military exercise in the Rajasthan desert on Monday with their troops set to engage each other in a series of anti-terrorist and urban warfare drills. "The US Army is being represented by troops from 25 Infantry Division while the Indian side has pitched in troops from Jammu and Kashmir Rifles and Mechanised Infantry," an official said. The 170-strong member US...
03:37 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Bagram: More than 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main US military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign troops had improperly disposed of copies of the Koran and other religious items, Afghan officials said. US helicopters fired flares to try to break up the demonstrators, some of whom were chanting anti-foreigner slogans and throwing stones. Roshna Khalid, the provincial governor's spokeswoman, said Korans had been burnt inside...
05:03 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Washington: The US may rely on its aging fleet of 33 high-flying U-2 spy planes longer than expected due to defence cutbacks, according to a media report. For more than 50 years, the CIA and US military have relied on U-2s to go deep behind enemy lines for vital intelligence-gathering missions. It was first designed during the Eisenhower administration to breach the hidden military strongholds in the Soviet Union. The...
06:39 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Baghdad: Two bombs exploded near Shi'ite pilgrims travelling through Iraq's capital on Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 52 others, police and hospital sources said. Thousands of Shi'ites are making the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Kerbala for the Arbain religious rite amid Iraq's worst political crisis in a year after the Shi'ite-led government moved against two prominent Sunni politicians. The crisis threatens to unravel Iraq's...
02:23 AM, Jan 10, 2012
The United States is boosting its military presence in the Asia Pacific region as it looks to counter China's rising power. President Barack Obama made the announcement following a wide-ranging review into defence spending. China is now reacting to the newly implemented strategy. ...
11:35 AM, Jan 09, 2012
The United States is boosting its military presence in the Asia Pacific region as it looks to counter China's rising power. President Barack Obama made the announcement following a wide-ranging review into defence spending. China is now reacting to the newly implemented strategy. ...
11:17 AM, Jan 09, 2012
