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FORT HUACHUCA — The defense of the United States is going to require highly trained military intelligence professions, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Friday. Preparing critical intelligence providers is being done on this Southern Arizona post, said U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who assumed the chairmanship of the committee in January. Having an intelligence force that is the best will ensure the United States can counter any future enemy, he said. “It’s going to be the intelligence world that makes the difference,” he said after spending an afternoon on the post. It was Skelton’s first trip...

SIERRA VISTA — The nature of warfare is changing, and the Army and other armed forces are changing with it, the leader of Fort Huachuca said Monday. It was at a meeting of the Cochise Chapter of the Air Force Association that Maj. Gen. Robert Ashley spoke about the changes in both methodology, philosophy and training for modern warfare and the military’s ongoing commitment to citizens that hold it in the highest regard. Ashley is the commanding general United States Intelligence Center of Excellence and Fort Huachuca. One of the first in a series of slides presented to those attending...