A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 43 percent of Americans think things are going very or moderately well for the US in Iraq. By contrast, 56 percent of Americans say things are going very or moderately badly. Gallup notes that these results are among the “most negative” since 2003. However, the positive view is “slightly higher” than the organization has recorded at other times since the beginning of the war in Iraq. Check out the graph.
A combined Navy and Air Force program is seeking to build a smaller version of a ubiquitous air-to-air missile that could give advanced aircraft, such as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, greater magazine depth in a high-end fight.