Military And intelligence News Briefs -- February 28, 2011



Obama Defense Secretary Warns Against U.S. Armies In Asia, Middle East, Africa -- USA Today

The White House is not taking the military option off the table with regard to Libya, but it sure sounds like Defense Secretary Robert Gates is, at least in terms of land forces.

"In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it," Gates told an audience of West Point cadets last week.

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