A US military air controller seen in Albania, in 1999.
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Milley, that worked for in Iraq and Afghanistan, was at titled to exchange charismatic Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno, that four-year name results in a few weeks.
Dunford’s vice chair, U.S. Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, also agreed with Dunford, saying he “would put the threats to this nation in the following order: Russian Federation, China, Iran, North Korea, and all of the organizations that have grown around ideology articulated by al Qaeda”.
“Russia is the only country on earth that contains a nuclear capability that could destroy the United States“, Gen. Milley told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing to consider his nomination to serve as the next Army chief of staff, according to The Washington Times.
The Iraqi military’s will to fight has been hollowed out by a lack of proper leadership and resources, Army Gen. Mark Milley said Tuesday. That would ensure “more effective close-air support” for Iraqi troops, which have been struggling to regain and hold ground taken by the militant Islamist group in northwestern Iraq since a year ago.
He conceded there would be problems, though, adding that there would be “lots of issues with that, with security of our people”.
Top brass has previously rejected routine use of forward air controllers to direct the hundreds of air strikes by U.S. and allied forces against IS every month, out of concern about the possibility of combat casualties.
“They’ve attacked and invaded Georgia, they’ve seized the Crimea, they’ve attacked into the Ukraine”, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Asked whether the United States should provide weapons to enable Ukraine to counter artillery and rocket fire from Russian-backed rebels, Milley said, “lethal equipment, I think, is something we should consider, and I would be in favour of lethal defensive equipment”. But U.S. officials have indicated they are considering it.
