On Tuesday, January 30, 2008, transiting Mars will be making a station within one degree of the US natal Mars.  A "station" of a planet is when it changes from forward (direct) motion to retrograde (moving backwards) or vice versa.  During the station the planet appears to stand still in the sky, as it were, and then gradually starts moving in the reverse direction. 

So with the chart of the US and the US's increasingly bold pressure against the Iranian government, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and tense situations in such places as North Korea or Pakistan; this could be a key moment in these theaters.  Since Mars is a pro-active planet we might even have the typical pretext-creation or false-flag events that have preceded nearly all wars and military conflicts....