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Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment Survives

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rape Amendment, Daily Show, Defense Contractors, Dod, Al Franken, Arbitration, Bob Corker, Anti-Rape, Franken Rape Amendment, Gop, Republican, Politics News

An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who deny victims of sexual assault the right to bring their case in court...

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Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Living News

The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.

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CBS News: Obama Has Decided To Send Almost 40,000 Troops To Afghanistan

CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Dod, Afghanistan War, Combat Brigades, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Kabul, Support Troops, Obama, Hamid Karzai, Pashtun, Afghan War, Mike Mullen, Mcchrystal, Nato, White House, Un, Mullen, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal, World News

President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more tro...

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McClatchy: Obama Leaning Toward 34,000 More Troops For Afghanistan

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...

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Fort Hood Killings: No Safe Place from Invisible Wounds of War

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dod, Fort Hood, Troops, Army, Army Suicides, Suicide, Ptsd, American Legion, Veterans, Fort Hood Shootings, Walter Reed, Politics News

In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.

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Last Call to be World Leader

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology

Read More: Buzz Aldrin, Einstein, Cia, M.C. Hammer, Apollo, Sputnik, Kitty Hawk, Nasa, Global Trends 2025, Exobiology, Mr. Spock, Afghanistan, Moon, Boeing Company, Dod, Aromabar, Kaguya, Michener, Klare, Technology News

Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.

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Defense Department Opposed Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

When thirty Republicans lined up against an amendment that would have required defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in c...

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Stewart Nozette (PICTURE): Scientist Arrested On Spy Charges Worked For Department Of Defense

AP | LARRY MARGASAK and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israel Espionage, Chevy Chase, Department of Defense, Spy Charges, Spy, Israeli Spy, Israel, Stewart Nozette, Stewart David Nozette, Espionage, Dod, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A scientist credited with helping discover evidence of water on the moon was arrested Monday on charges of attempting to pass along...

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Federal Contracting: End SBA's Procurement Role

Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Minority Business, SBA Administrator, Federal Contracts, Federal Agency, Veteran Owned Business, Bidding for Prime Contracts, Federal Procurement, Loan Guaranty, Karen Mills, The American Small Business League, Asbl, Federal Government, Subcontracting, Contracting Fraud, U.S. Small Business Administration, Disadvantaged Business, Procurement, Sba, Contracting, Defense Department, Procurement Officers, Disabled Veteran, Dod, Albert Einstein, Hubzones, Business News

Should the U.S. Small Business Administration be in the business of helping small-business owners procure federal contracts?

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791 U.S. Military Deaths In Afghanistan Since Start Of War

The Associated Press | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Cia, Troops Killed, Civilian Deaths, Troop Deaths, Air Force, Dod, Invasion, Military Deaths, Army, Afghanistan Invasion, Al Qaida, Taliban, Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, Departnemt of Defense, World News

As of Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at least 791 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasi...

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8 Troops Killed In Afghanistan; Remote Outposts Attacked

AP | ROBERT H. REID and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

KABUL — Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan bor...

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Article In Military Journal Endorses Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Pentagon, Gays, Mike Mullen, Lesbians, Air Force, Dod, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Dadt, Army, Homosexual, Joint Force Quarterly, Robert Gates, Gay Rights, Department of Defense, Col. Prakash, Military, Adm Mike Mullen, Navy, Home News

WASHINGTON -- In an unusual show of support for allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces, an official military journal articl...

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The Torture Apologist's Fallacy

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Geneva Conventions, Torture-Apologist, Cia, John Yoo, George W. Bush, Richard Cohen, Dod, War Crimes, Dick Cheney, Politics News

If a person in US custody is presumed innocent until proven guilty, then it does not matter whether or not torture works, does it? We don't torture innocent people, right?

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Hear from Military Families About Social Media Via DOD Feedback Site

Craig Newmark | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Iava, Social Media, Dod, Veterans, Media News

The Department of Defense is asking military families what they really need from social media. It's not an easy issue, since there are a lot of legitimate security and privacy concerns.

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Congress Orders Private Jets For Lawmakers' Travel

Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Congressional Travel, Private Jets, Gulfstream, Dod, Department of Defense, Pentagon, House Appropriations Committee, C-40s, Corporate Jets, Politics News

Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have cri...

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Gates and Trucks

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Dod, Marines, Public Defender, Gates, Pennsylvania, Department of Defense, US Soldiers, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, M-Atvs, Mraps, Bob Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Politics News

For once, American manufacturers are producing the best weapons ahead of schedule, and will save lives of men who would die without them.

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The F-22 and the Iron Triangle: A Two-Legged Stool Cannot Stand

Gordon Adams | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fighter Aircraft, Dod, Congress, F-22, B-1-Bomber, Obama on Defense, Defense Budget, Defense Procurement, Politics News

For a major program to emerge, thrive, and survive, it takes three players: the service that wants and will advocate for the program, a contractor for whom the program is major business, and members of Congress.

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The Undoing of Gen. T. Michael Moseley: A Cautionary Tale About the Military/Industrial Complex

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Dod, US Military, Thunderbirds, Hornburg, Military, Favoritism, Air Force, Nuclear Missiles, Waste, Military-Reform, Edward Shipley, Secretary Wynne, Justice Department, Military Contracts, Veterans, T. Michael Moseley, Politics News

This tale recounts the interwoven fate of an Air Force Chief of Staff, potentially disastrous handling of nuclear weapons, and a financial advising company with more than 300,000 military personnel as investors.

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The Military Industrial Complex: Truck You, Detroit, or Tanks for Nuttin' Update

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mraps, Contractors, Afghanistan, Detroit Three, Gm, Obama, Chysler, Ford, Oshkosh-Truck-Corp, Marines, Military, Army, Iraqs, Detroit, Navistar, Ieds, General Petraeus, Dod, Detroit Bailout, Atvs, Politics News

Our military procurement system is a mess. Our automobile industry is a mess. We might have helped both if we had gotten them to agree to build the next generation of military vehicles together.

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Congressman Ron Paul Talks Foreign Policy: New Face, Same Policy

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.

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Will Gates Buy the Right Weapons the Right Way? Here Is a Chance for Some Permanent Reform

Dina Rasor | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense Contractors, Dod, Defense Waste, Congress, Defense Spending, Robert Gates, Weapons Cuts, Politics News

The Pentagon uses historic costs to base how much a new weapon will cost. This is a fundamental flaw that dooms us to pay exponentially more for each new generation of weapons.

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The Pentagon's Annual Report on Sexual Assualt in the Military, or, How to Lie with Statistics

Helen Benedict | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dod, Sexual Assault in Military, Department of Defense, Rape, Sexual Assault, Politics News

The Pentagon released its annual report on military sexual assault. Reports of sexual assault have risen 8 percent in military as a whole. Yet to the Department of Defense this is good news.

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Details Of Pentagon Nerve Center Revealed

Talking Points Memo | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Dod, Office of Net Assessment, Daydream Believers, Fred Kaplan, Defense Department, Pentagon Think Tank, Politics News

A tiny office in the Pentagon employs a handful of military officers, teamed up with outside contractors, to study the future....

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DOD Gitmo Statements At Odds With Obama Administration

Plum Line | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Dod, Bush Defense Department, Obama Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Obama Gitmo, Bush Torture, Bush Burrowing, Obama Torture, Defense Department, Politics News

Here's a key question: Will the existence of Bush-era holdovers in the Defense Department impede the Obama administration's vow to make a clean break ...

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Pentagon Boosts Spending On PR Efforts, Raises Propaganda Concerns

AP | CHRIS TOMLINSON | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leon Panetta, Pentagon, Pentagon Propaganda, Pentagon Analysts, Dod, Defense Department, Department of Defense, Propaganda, Politics News