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The Defence Minister, Shri A. K. Antony interacting with the media on the sidelines of 15th Asian Security Conference in New Delhi on February 13, 2013.The ADG (M&C), Shri Sitanshu Kar is also seen.
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 Indian Express 
Defence Minister A K Antony approves Rs 2,800 cr night-vision devices' proposal
Tue 2 Apr 2013
The Defence Ministry today approved a Rs 2,820 crore proposal to provide night-vision devices to the Army to enable its tanks and infantry combat vehicles to have capability to fight in both day and n... (photo: PIB of India)
File - In this photo released by U.S. researchers who visited North Korea, a researcher videotapes stored equipment removed from the reprocessing plant at the Yongbyon Nuclear Center in North Korea Thursday Feb. 14, 2008.
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 BBC News 
North Korea 'to restart Yongbyon nuclear reactor'
Tue 2 Apr 2013
North Korea says it will restart all facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, which it shut in 2007, including a mothballed reactor. | A statement carried by KCNA news agency said the move wou... (photo: AP / S. S. Hecker)
	Pentagon's unrealistic Afghan plan  The Examiner  Mon 1 Apr 2013
Pentagon's unrealistic Afghan plan
Claiming that Afghanistan is not ready to go it alone when U.S. forces pull out in 2014, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. insisted t... (photo: DOD / Public Domain)
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Report: Afghan teen stabs, kills US soldier  Clarion Ledger  Mon 1 Apr 2013
Report: Afghan teen stabs, kills US soldier
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local children, officials said Monday. | The... (photo: US DoD / Joshua Kruger)
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War Stories All Americans Should Read Huffington Post Mon 1 Apr 2013
War Stories All Americans Should Read
Attention everyone who wants to know what war is really like for the troops in the front lines: you now have several excellent opportunities to learn about the incredible... (photo: DOD / Public Domain)
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South Korean army soldiers prepare 155 mm howitzers during an exercise against possible attacks by North Korea near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, March 14, 2013. New Straits/Business Times Mon 1 Apr 2013
South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth jets
SEOUL : South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on... (photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon)
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North Korean army officers punch the air as they chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, March 29, 2013. Al Jazeera Sun 31 Mar 2013
N Korea vows to 'strengthen nuclear weapons'
North Korea has pledged to strengthen its nuclear weapons programme, a day after announcing it is in a "state of war" with South Korea, as the region remains tense amid a... (photo: AP / Jon Chol Jin)
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File - An Afghan National Army (ANA) commando with the 2nd Company, 2nd Special Operations Kandak prepares to engage enemy insurgents Oct. 2, 2012, in Sayed Abad district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. The Independent Sun 31 Mar 2013
Nato alarm over Afghan army crisis: loss of recruits threatens security as handover looms
Thousands of recruits are quitting the newly formed Afghan police and armed forces every month, raising fears over their ability to protect the emerging democracy when co... (photo: US Army / Pfc. Brian Chaney)
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An Afghan doctor attends to a wounded man in the village of Spendi, Ghazni province, Saturday, March 30, 2013 after Taliban militants attacked a police convoy in eastern Afghanistan, kicking off a fierce gunbattle. News24 Sat 30 Mar 2013
Nato airstrike kills two Afghan kids
Ghazni - A Nato helicopter strike killed two children in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, in the latest civilian casualties to beset the coalition's war ... (photo: AP / Rahmatullah Nikzad)
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Korean People's Army soldiers observing the South Korean side of the DMZ. The Korean People's Army (KPA) is the name for the collective armed personnel of the North Korean military. New Straits/Business Times Sat 30 Mar 2013
North Korea declares 'state of war' with South
SEOUL : North Korea on Saturday declared it was in a “state of war” with South Korea and warned Seoul and Washington that any provocation would swiftly escalate into ... (photo: US Army / Edward N. Johnson)
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File - A North Korean soldier stands watch on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone as U.S. Sailors assigned to the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group tour the DMZ in Panmunjom, South Korea, July 17, 2008. Novosti Fri 29 Mar 2013
Moscow Warns Against ‘Muscle Flexing’ Around N. Korea
MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) – Russia cautioned against aggressive posturing in response to increasingly bellicose North Korean rhetoric on Friday, saying that it... (photo: US Navy / Senior Chief MCS Spike Call)
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File - U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony Limon (right) and Sgt. Aaron Hestand, both from White Tank, 2nd Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, keep watch during a patrol near Combat Outpost Sangar, Zabul province, Afghanistan, on July 3, 2010. BBC News Thu 28 Mar 2013
Hollowed out: US Army fights brain drain
During and after the Iraq war, many Army officers left because of the US military's gruelling pace. Now, officials are struggling with the consequences. | It is a Ma... (photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. William Tremblay)
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In this March 7, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 8, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, uses binoculars to look at the South's territory from an observation post at the military unit on Jangjae islet, located in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of North Korea's border with South Korea. Al Jazeera Wed 27 Mar 2013
North Korea warns of 'simmering nuclear war'
North Korea has again threatened war against South Korea and the United States, saying conditions "for a simmering nuclear war" have been created on the peninsula. | The ... (photo: AP / KCNA via KNS)
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