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Articles Written by: RICHARD TOMKINS
Who is This?
Richard Tomkins is the Consumer Industries Editor of the Financial Times, having assumed the post in 2001. He has previously worked at the FT in marketing and at the New York bureau (in both cases as a correspondent).
Korkoran Village, Afghanistan -- Marine Sgt. Joseph Woodard froze in mid-step at the entrance to a deserted house. His heart raced. He balanced himself on one leg and slowly backed away.
“Holy s**t,” he muttered later. “Holy s**t.”
Woodard, of ...
From RICHARD TOMKINS,
HumanEvents.com,
13 Nov 2009
Masood, Afghanistan -- Amid the debate in Washington over whether or not to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, it would be easy to overlook the fact that there are thousands of soldiers from other countries in the field with their American ...
From RICHARD TOMKINS,
HumanEvents.com,
5 Nov 2009
Charkh, Afghanistan – The young Army captain lit a cigar, inhaled and took in the night sky. It had been a vexing week. His outpost had been attacked by extremists using rocket propelled grenades, a platoon had been fired upon while on an ...
US Marines fire on the Iraqi town of Sakhr on 1 December 2004.
As the US withdrawal deadline looms, Iraq is apprehensive, Richard Tomkins reports for RFE/RL.
A current of apprehension runs through post-"surge" Iraq ahead of a looming deadline for ...
From RICHARD TOMKINS,
ISN,
10 Jun 2009
SAMARRA, Iraq | In a blunt assessment, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, said Thursday that there is a 20 percent to 30 percent chance that the United States and Iraq won't reach a deal to allow U.S. troops to operate in ...
From RICHARD TOMKINS AND BARBARA SLAVIN,
Washington Times,
31 Oct 2008
Errant Iraqi police and criminal elements within their ranks are in the cross-hairs of U.S. forces in a move to protect improved security and sectarian reconciliation in Muqdadiya and its surrounding villages. ...
The fifth anniversary of U.S. forces entering Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein has arrived, and with it all the commentaries and recriminations resulting from a war gone bad, or at least one that hasn't turned out like initially expected. ...
In a city known as al-Qaida's last urban stronghold, fear of sudden death dictates how people live their daily lives. For 21 men condemned to death by terrorists here, survival has come down to a dingy, bullet-scarred building on Mosul's eastern ...
U.S. and Iraqi security forces chip away at al-Qaida's pool of IED makers and planters in Saladin province in nightly raids dependent on luck as well as good intelligence. ...
UPI Correspondent
MOSUL, Iraq, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. and Iraqi military campaign to route al-Qaida terrorists from their last urban stronghold is in motion, with troops fanning out to new combat operations posts.
U.S. military spokesmen say more ...
