Martin Dempsey needs to walk back his Air Force directives.

Fully armed MQ-9 Reaper (click title to entry - thank you)  unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway (file photo) 

A U.S. drone aircraft has crashed at an airport in the Seychelles.

The U.S. Embassy in nearby Mauritius says the remote-controlled MQ-9 aircraft crashed Tuesday while trying to land at the Seychelles International airport on the island of Mahe.

An embassy statement says no one was injured....

The embassy did not comment on the plane's mission and said the cause of the crash was unknown....

First is was the two military unites in Pakistan, then the drone crash in Iran and now another drone crash in Syechelles.  I don't think so!  The odds of all this occuring in such a short period of time doesn't exist.  The air strikes are too extreme and the military operating these missions are showing the extent at which it can control the outcomes.  There is something very wrong here and the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Martin Dempsey needs to review the escalation is US LOSS that exists now that didn't before.

...Gen Dempsey (click here) said it was unclear the latest steps taken by EU leaders would be enough to hold the eurozone together, adding that a break-up could have consequences for the Pentagon.
Twenty-six of the 27 EU countries have agreed to forge a tighter fiscal union.
Only the UK refused to sign up to a new treaty, citing national interest.
Gen Dempsey, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an event hosted by the Atlantic Council, a Washington think-tank: "The eurozone is at great risk."...

Is this a NATO thing, because I thought Secretary Geithner was just in Europe to meet with EU leaders.

...The F-35 program (click here) is now feeling the threat of an issue from across the pond with European partner nations feeling the economic pinch that could result in reduced purchases of the F-35....