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The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Jack Uldrich	IBM's Offer Translates to Good Business A donation of speech-translation technology to the military is a promising sign of the product's future potential.
InternetNews February 14, 2007 Michael Hickins	IBM Lets a 'Thousand Flowers' Speak IBM put speech technology in the context of its broader SOA and information-on-demand initiatives.
National Defense May 2010 Grace V. Jean	Breaking Down Language Barriers on the Battlefield Troops attempt to interact with the local population on a daily basis, but without enough human translators to go around, miscommunications abound and opportunities for mutual understanding are lost.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Kimberly Patch	PDA translates speech Handheld computers are getting powerful enough, and speech recognition software accurate enough, that travelers, soldiers and aid workers in foreign countries could soon have automatic speech translation in hand. A prototype Arabic-English medical translator is a significant milestone.
National Defense February 2007 Grace Jean	Bridging Language and Culture Gaps Through Games A new PC-based game, Tactical Iraqi Language Trainer, tests soldiers street smarts and cultural savvy in simulated Iraqi situations.
National Defense July 2007 Robert H. Williams	Troops Converse With Iraqis Via Compact Translator Troops in Iraq now have access to a voice-to-voice translator.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	War Lessons Should Not Be Politicized, Says CENTCOM Chief The organization in charge of gathering and reporting those lessons, the U.S. Joint Forces Command, deployed teams and embedded them with units in the field to get a first-hand look at the operations.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Operation Iraqi Freedom C 4ISR Lessons Learned Operation Iraqi Freedom was the first major military operation conducted under the newly introduced US Army Net-Centric Warfare (NCW) doctrine.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003	A Breakthrough In U.S.-Turkish Ties Turkey is likely to send up to 10,000 troops to Iraq by yearend, despite initial Iraqi opposition to the Turkish Parliament's Oct. 7 decision to deploy peacekeepers to assist struggling U.S. military forces.
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Complex Realities Lie Behind U.S. Rush to Train Iraqi Army It has become crystal clear that fielding a competent Iraqi Army is a tenet of the U.S. exit strategy. What is far less apparent is what exactly constitutes a competent Iraqi fighting force, and how long it will be before it can relieve American troops.
Parameters Autumn 2008 William Mcdonough	Time for a New Strategy The Surge Strategy proposed by George W. Bush in 2007 has accomplished the majority of its goals and now is the time to significantly reduce the US presence in Iraq.
National Defense July 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Language Barriers Hinder Multinational Operations U.S. military allies view language barriers, rather than incompatible technology, as a primary obstacle to multinational operations.
National Defense December 2009 Erwin & Wright	Ft. Polk Brigade to Produce 6,000 Advisors Per Year to Train Iraqi and Afghan Forces In the coming months, the Army will be augmenting its brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan with hundreds of additional officers who will take on the duties of advising and training those nations' forces.
National Defense February 2005 Roxana Tiron	Iraqi Special Forces Need More Training, Equipment Iraqi commando units, known as special forces, continue to be hampered by equipment and training shortcomings, a Washington think tank expert contends.
U.S. Banker May 2003 Holly Sraeel	Global Community? The World Can Only Hope. The free world is compelled to rebuild Iraq, complete with a democratic government, with the Iraqis for the Iraqis. It won't be cheap and, even more, it won't be easy.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	U.S. Moves to Rearm Iraq The U.S. government--following an extended delay--is aggressively moving to train and equip Iraqi security forces to provide for the internal and external defense of that war torn nation.
PC Magazine November 24, 2004	Bits & Bites v23n22 Market researchers are predicting big numbers for online holiday shopping this year... NEC has developed a handheld Japanese/ English translation device... Fake reality for sale will be the norm in the next decade....
The Motley Fool October 12, 2011 Anders Bylund	Raytheon Is Still Looking for Helpful Droids Military-grade instant translation now fits in your pocket.
BusinessWeek May 22, 2006 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Hello Again, Speech Recognition Voice controls are growing common in cars. Your handheld may be next. Speech has been flying below the radar for quite a while, promising more than it delivers. This next wave of tools could make devices easier to use and users more productive.
Searcher February 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Feature: Language Translation in the Internet Age - 'my Hovercraft is Full of Eels' Webpages are designed to attract users and to keep them coming back. Along with poor design and typos, issues of unclear messages plague many websites today.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	iPhone Translation App Will Add Afghan Languages A New Jersey-based company that has developed speech translator applications for the iPhone is turning its attention to languages that would be useful to the military.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries.
Information Today Paula J. Hane	Britannica Subsidiary Unveils English-Arabic Search Engine Melingo has just introduced Morfix CL, its English-Arabic-English Cross-Language Search with Embedded Translation. What that means is that English-speaking researchers can search through Arabic material without knowing any Arabic at all--and see a results page with a translation of each Arabic word or phrase.
Wired May 2000 Steve Silberman	Hello, World Imagine a machine that speaks your language - and translates it for those who don't.
National Defense June 2006 Grace Jean	Commandos see expanded mission portfolio To boost its unconventional warfare capabilities, Canada is revamping its special operations military organization and emphasizing counter-terrorism skills in elite unit training programs.
Wired May 2000 Carl Zimmer	Universal Translators A look at the hubs for machine translation R&D worldwide.
National Defense November 2006 David Axe	Equipment Shortages Undermine Iraqi Forces As long as local Iraqi forces rely on the coalition for logistics support, a complete withdrawal is unlikely.
National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	U.S. Takes Step Back, Revisits Rebuilding Plans To recover from serious setbacks in its reconstruction plans for Iraq the United States will need a more flexible strategy.
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National Defense October 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	How New Strategy to Defeat ISIS Can Work President Obama's stated objectives are to degrade and destroy ISIS. Although, this goal sounds reasonable on the surface, the president's language does not provide sufficient criteria to formulate military objectives.
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	U.S. Military Training Fails to Grasp Foreign Cultures, Says Rep. Skelton A thorough lack of understanding of the Iraqi culture, to a large extent, has contributed to U.S. setbacks in the occupation of Iraq, said Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo.
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National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there.
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Special Forces' Skills `Needed More Than Ever' Experts are questioning whether the Pentagon is making the best use of highly skilled special operations forces in the nation's war against extremist Islamic groups.
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PC Magazine July 13, 2004 Sebastian Rupley	Scaling the Language Barrier Software gets much better at knowing what we mean.
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National Defense March 2005 Roxana Tiron	Insurgents Learn to Exploit U.S. Military's Vulnerabilities As insurgents continue to develop more lethal means to attack U.S. forces and allies in Iraq, both military and private security officials have been conducting briefings on how to recognize and avoid the ubiquitous threats of suicide bombs, roadside mines and ambushes.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	Military Users Are Giving Second Thoughts to the Needs for Ruggedized Laptop and Notebook Computers U.S. military portable computer users have come to realize that laptop computers are repositories of often-irreplaceable and sensitive data, giving them reason to reconsider buying specially designed ruggedized laptops.
Parameters Spring 2007 Anthony J. Schwarz	Iraq's Militias: The True Threat to Coalition Success in Iraq Analysis of the historical, political, and religious roots underlying the growth of extremism in Iraq
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National Defense May 2006 Stew Magnuson	Despite Advances, Air Strikes Fall Short of Expectations The Joint Forces Command will launch a demonstration program this year to improve communications between the armed services and the intelligence communities. The goal is to decrease the time it takes to put bombs on elusive terrorist targets.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum	It's Time To Shelve The Rumsfeld Doctrine Denial is rampant in Washington. There is denial that intelligence mistakes were made in the months and years before September 11. There is denial that foreign policy mistakes were made in the runup to the war in Iraq.
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