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	<title>Defense Tech &#187; Door Kickers</title>
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		<title>Bin Laden’s Death Warrant</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/04/26/bin-ladens-death-warrant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Globe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, not literally, but in case you haven’t yet seen the piece of paper shown above, its the April 29, 2011 memo by then CIA Director Leon Panetta authorizing the May 1, 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden at his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It reads: MEMO FOR THE RECORD Apr. 29, 2011, 10:35 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>83</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conventional Vs SOF Helos?</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/04/04/conventional-vs-sof-helos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s question we’ve heard several times in the months since last summer’s downing of a CH-47 Chinook in Afghanistan that killed 30 U.S. troops, including 17 Navy SEALs, and eight Afghan Commandos; would those men still be alive if they were traveling aboard an aircraft belonging to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Air Force Special Ops U-28 Crashes in Africa</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/21/air-force-special-ops-u-28-crashes-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/02/21/air-force-special-ops-u-28-crashes-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some sad news from the weekend: Four Air Commandos died over the weekend when their U-28 special mission single engine turboprop went down in Djibouti Saturday. The planes based on the Pilatus PC-12, often operating in civilian livery, are flown by Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) on missions to remote airstrips around the world [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>USS Ponce to Become Spec Ops Mothership</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/28/uss-ponce-to-become-spec-ops-mothership/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/28/uss-ponce-to-become-spec-ops-mothership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you didn’t see this on Friday, the Pentagon is converting the 1970s-vintage amphibious assault ship USS Ponce into a mothership for special ops and countermining missions in the Middle East, the Washington Post is reporting. The 570-foot long ship’s big flight deck and well deck are well suited to carry the choppers and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>96</slash:comments>
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		<title>Army’s New Helos Will Be Designed With Spec Ops in Mind</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/19/armys-new-helos-will-be-designed-with-spec-ops-in-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/19/armys-new-helos-will-be-designed-with-spec-ops-in-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Army aviation officials, including several from the special operations side of the house, last week revealed that the special operations community will have a say in the design of the next generation of Army choppers. When asked last week during an army aviation conference sponsored by the Association of the U.S. Army last week if [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where the US Will Spend Its Weapons Cash</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/17/where-the-us-will-spend-its-weapons-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2012/01/17/where-the-us-will-spend-its-weapons-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=16045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want further proof of where Pentagon weapon spending is likely to head, check out the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assesments latest publication, Outside-In, Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access and Area-Denial Threats. The document, a concept for how the Defense Deparment can counter Iran’s increasingly sophisticated efforts to feild weapons that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>85</slash:comments>
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		<title>Air Force Now Has the MOP</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/15/air-force-now-has-the-mop/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/15/air-force-now-has-the-mop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15379</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rogue states with nascent nuclear weapon programs (cough, Iran, cough), consider yourselves on notice. The Air Force has started taking delivery of Massive Ordnance Penetrators. Yup, the 30,000-pound bunker busters, known as MOPs, designed to penetrate 30 stories of reinforced concrete. (Oh, and the massive bomb’s name is almost as charged as the term, Pre-Dawn [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>220</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Marine Corps</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/10/happy-birthday-marine-corps/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/11/10/happy-birthday-marine-corps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 236th birthday, Marines! Above you’ll the see the official Marine Corps birthday video. Click through the jump to watch two more video tributes to the Corps’ that I like better. Be sure to turn the sound up on the first one at the 1:45 mark — just make sure you’re wearing headphones if you’re [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Fight for Libya: A Tech Recap</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/20/the-fight-for-libya-a-tech-recap/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/20/the-fight-for-libya-a-tech-recap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=15084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Gadhafi has been eliminated we thought we’d take a look back at NATO’s military campaign to support the Libyan rebels. As of this writing, NATO has conducted a total of 26,089 sorties, including 9,618 strike sorties against Gadhafi’s forces since March 31. Just yesterday, NATO jets conducted 16 strike missions and flew a total of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>U.S. Sending “Combat Equipped” Troops to Africa</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/14/u-s-sending-combat-equipped-troops-to-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/14/u-s-sending-combat-equipped-troops-to-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=14991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the President is sending about 100 “combat equipped” U.S. troops to Uganda to help local government forces hunt down and ‘remove’ Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA is a rebel group that has terrorized the African countryside for years, murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of civilians.  Like countless other [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>74</slash:comments>
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