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2006-09-29 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 PACIFIC STARS-N-STRIPES > roughly ditto for USA milfors in SOUTH KOREA. Sum - US has confidence in SoKor/SoKor leadership.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-09-29 00:48|| 2006-09-29 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 A plan approved Thursday to extend NATO's military control across all of Afghanistan would put as many as 12,000 American troops under foreign battlefield command, a number that U.S. officials said could be the most since World War II. The move is expected to take place in the next few weeks, NATO spokesman James Appathurai said.

Not that the Rant community would ever believe any news delivered by MSM as being correct, let's grasp the nuance here. IAW the powers invested by the Constitution [Justices Kennedy and Souter aside] and enacted under Title 10 USC, the Chain of Command and authority is unbroken from the President of the United States to that private out there on the field of operations. American leadership at each command transition is the legal authority. American commands at each level coordinate and cooperate with allied commands and commanders, but the legal authority channel is never held by a non-American.

Posted by Cheath Ununter6466 2006-09-29 08:53|| 2006-09-29 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting situation I wonder who would courts martial a soldier that disobeys an order from a non-U.S. Commander?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-09-29 17:48|| 2006-09-29 17:48|| Front Page Top

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