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Unfit for Combat »
Posted by: rumple4skin 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Monday at 2 PM Baghdad time, a US soldier gunned down five fellow soldiers at a stress-counseling center at a US base in Baghdad. Adm ...
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Pentagon Taking Over U.S. ForeignPolicy »
Posted by: rumple4skin 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
September 24, 2009 - The Pentagon has virtually replaced the State Department in making U.S. foreign policy, The Nation magazine charges.
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Pentagon Misplaces Dick Cheney »
Posted by: capnews 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Humor
The blame game has already begun, with both the CIA and NSA pointing fingers at each other, and others hinting that an intern may have ...
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House rejects most Obama weapons cuts »
Posted by: rumple4skin 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Despite objections and veto threats from the White House, a $636 BILLION Pentagon spending bill set for a vote Thursday contains money for a much-criticized ...
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The Defense Industry's Secret Weapon »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months ago in Political News
William J. Lynn III is, after Gates, the most powerful person in the Defense Department, responsible for managing the entire building, including weapons acquisitions. His ...
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The Huge Hole in Gen. McChrystal's Afghan Counterinsurgency Strategy »
Posted by: hyperbola 2 months ago in Political Opinion
The centerpiece of the General Stanley McChrystal's "new" counterinsurgency strategy of "clear, hold, build" is the accelerated training and expansion of the Afghan Army ...
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Putting a Stop to Stop Loss »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Pentagon ends the back-door draft, but critics fear a return with Afghanistan surge.
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Will They Hate Us for the Secret Photographs? »
Posted by: populist 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
If people in the Middle East would get so angry at seeing some more photographs depicting sex abuse of prisoners at the hands of U ...
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Who Rules America? The American people be damned. »
Posted by: hyperbola 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the ...
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Donald Rumsfeld - And He Shall Be Judged »
Posted by: TimALoftis 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for ...
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US Sending 1,000 More Troops to Iraq »
Posted by: populist 2 months, 1 week ago in News
As Officials Tout 'Drawdown,' Why Is US Adding Troops?
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Pentagon Stonewall on Osprey »
Posted by: rumple4skin 5 months, 4 weeks ago in News
The House Government Oversight and Reform Committee was due to hold a hearing about the V-22. “We had hoped to conduct today a thorough examination ...
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Get Out of Afghanistan and Everywhere Else by Jacob G. Hornberger »
Posted by: populist 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
If there was ever a classic example of a quagmire, it has got to be Afghanistan. Hey, they’re going on 8 or 9 years ...
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Pirates of Procurement »
Posted by: populist 7 months ago in Political News
Enter the pirates, who from Errol Flynn to Johnny Depp have always been a big box-office draw. As the recent media hysteria over the crew ...
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Obama's Defense Budget - Of Pork and Baloney »
Posted by: hyperbola 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
This week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is set to roll out the final details of the defense budget for 2010. Beware the articles and ...
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