How About Starting with 2006?

Aug. 25, 2005

SS Mount WhitneyTop military commanders in Europe wrapped up a two-day seminar today aboard USS Mount Whitney in the Mediterranean Sea. The focus: to forecast the European theater’s strategic future in 2013. Is a seven-year view the new standard

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