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PICTURES: Obama’s Six Wars (So Far)

By National Journal staff
Updated: July 1, 2011 | 1:52 p.m.
July 1, 2011 | 12:24 p.m.

By cleverly using international bodies, advanced war technology, and new covert capabilities, President Obama – following a long line of presidents before him -- has been redefining the meaning of going to war. Now, instead of "war," the U.S. is engaged in "missions," "operations" and "counterinsurgency campaigns." And with incoming CIA director, the soon-to-be-civilian Gen. David Petraeus, "the process of turning war into something other than war is likely to grow even more intricate and subtle," National Journal’s Michael Hirsh writes.

Here’s a look at six countries where the U.S. is engaged in war – even if the administration isn’t calling it that:

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Libya
For the last three months, the U.S. has been participating in defensive operations for daily NATO “missionsâ€

CIA Refuses to Remove Drone Airbase from Pakistan

Yochi J. Dreazen
NationalJournal
July 1, 2011

The Central Intelligence Agency is continuing to use a covert base inside Pakistan for drone strikes and other counterterrorism operations despite Islamabad’s public insistence that the facility has been closed, highlighting the increasingly complicated relationship between the two nominal allies in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing there earlier this year.

Senior U.S. and Pakistani officials said in interviews on Friday that CIA operations at the Shamsi air base in western Pakistan, a short distance from the Afghan border, were continuing unabated and that no American personnel had been withdrawn from the facility. The base is the hub of the CIA’s escalating campaign of drone strikes against militant leaders throughout Pakistan, a push that Obama administration officials credit with decimating the leadership of al-Qaida and many of its Islamist allies.

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