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Joint Strike Fighter: We Were Told This Would Happen

Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ashton Carter, Cost Growth, Defense Spending, Pentagon, Lockheed Martin, Cost Overrun, F-35, Joint Strike Fighter, Politics News
Winslow T. Wheeler

As the Pentagon's $300 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program continues to unravel, it is useful to remind ourselves who told us all of this would happen, and who might now be making foolish prognostications.

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Promises Unkept: Obama Administration and a Unified Security Budget

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Homeland Security, National Security, Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies, Obama Administration, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Unified Security Budget, Politics News
Tamar Abrams

While the president has made some strides toward curbing waste, fraud and abuse in Pentagon contracting, he has yet to change the crucial balance between military and non-military security spending.

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General McChrystal's War

Rick Ayers | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Pentagon, Afghanistan Surge, Vietnam War, Escalation, Afghan War, World News
Rick Ayers

A Newsweek cover story purporting to demonstrate how the US could have "won" in Vietnam turns out to be a stalking horse for General McChrystal and the Pentagon hawks.

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Reject False Choices Between Law Enforcement & Military

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Zacarias Moussaoui, Law Enforcement, Military Tribunal, Terrorists, President Obama, 9/11, Founding Fathers, George F. Will, Independent Judiciray, John Kerry, Constitution, Separation of Powers, Prosecutors, London Terror, False Choices, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

As Obama tasks our independent judiciary with trying more suspected 9/11 terrorists, count me among those who agree with Mayor Giuliani's first position on trying alleged terrorists in US courts: in the yes column

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High Cost Of War Weighs On Obama's Troop Decision For Afghanistan

New York Times | CHRISTOPHER DREW | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Deficit, Cost of War, Karzai, Afghanistan War, White House, Afghanistan, Budget, Kabul, Obama, Cost of Afghanistan War, Hamid Karzai, World News

While President Obama's decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan is primarily a military one, it also has substantial budget implications tha...

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Pentagon Funds Taliban Who Are Killing US Troops

Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Taliban, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

We're paying to send American troops to Afghanistan and we're also paying Afghans insurgents who will see to it that those troops come back in caskets: a crazed, pointless machinery of death.

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Colin Powell To Obama On Afghanistan Troop Decision: "Take Your Time"

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Karzai, Handover, Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Troop Levels, Pakistan, Timeline, Kabul, Afghanistan Strategy, Obama, Taliban, Withdrawal, Foreign Policy, Mcchrystal, White House, Al Qaida, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Tom Joyner, Afghanistan Decision, Politics News

In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...

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Official: Obama Does Not Plan To Accept Afghan War Options, Wants Handover Details

AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, White House, Mcchrystal, Karzai, Department of Defense, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Exit Strategy, Timeline, Afghanistan Strategy, Mike Mullen, Obama, Jim Jones, Afghanistan War, World News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing ...

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An Open Letter to President Obama About Afghanistan From William R. Polk

The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Afghanistan War, Nato, Afghan Election, Tribes, Durand Line, Kabul, Middle East, Taliban, Policy, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Chicago, Afghan Strategy, Un, South Waziristan, Soviet Union, Pentagon, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Troop Levels, Terrorism, Pashtun, Foreign Policy, Kashmir, Insurgency, Al Qaida, State Department, Pashtunwali, Soviet Afghan War, Counterinsurgency, World News

I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...

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Jason Linkins

Fox News Reporter Battles Pentagon Flack In Latest Media Dust-Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Pentagon, Video, Fox News, Media Feuds, War on Fox, Media News

It's been a while since we've checked in on how that whole White House "War on Fox News" was playing out in the trenches, between Fox News's news-gath...

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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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The Pentagon's Black Hole

Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, DOD Inspector General, Financial Management, Waste, Defense Spending, Pentagon Budget, Gao, Defense Budget, Obama Pentagon, Politics News
Winslow T. Wheeler

It's not that DOD is flunking audits. You flunk an audit when you track the money and find it was not spent as intended. DOD cannot track the money; the Department of Defense is unauditable.

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

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Afghan Election, Department of Defense, Troops, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Troop Levels, Kabul, Obama, Withdrawal, Dod, Mike Mullen, Mcchrystal, Nato, Soldiers, Military, Surge, Waziristan, Troop Level, Afghanistan Decision, Un, Robert Gates, Afghan Decision, Stanley McChrystal, World News

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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Pentagon Pursues Investigation Into Bush Propaganda Program

The Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Bush Propaganda Investigation, George W. Bush Propaganda, Pentagon Bush Propaganda, George W. Bush Investigation, George W. Bush, Pentagon Investigation, Bush Propaganda, Politics News

The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used re...

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Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine Sites

Allen McDuffee | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Wright-Patterson, Army, Military, Swine Flu, Air Force, H1n1, Censorship, US Navy, Vaccines, Politics News
Allen McDuffee

If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That's the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine.

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Pentagon Expected To Request More War Financing

nytimes.com | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, John Murtha, War Financing, Robert F. Hale, War in Afghanistan, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Stanley McChrystal, Mike Mullen, War in Iraq, Defense Department, Supplemental Funds, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The nation's top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency fina...

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Obama Faces Revolt From Generals Over Strategy In Afghanistan

Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, White House, Afghanistan, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Troop Levels, General David Petraeus, Obama, Joe Biden, Taliban, Sen. John McCain, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Obama's War, Biden, Insurgency, The-Institute-for-the-Study-of-War, Counterinsurgency Field Manual, Petraeus, General Stanley McChrystal, Counterinsurgency, Us Troops Afghanistan, Politics News

In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...

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Last Plan for Afghanistan

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Obama Afghanistan, US Military, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News
Stewart Nusbaumer

Plan Z is one of those rare strategies that is hatched not from the mind of confused strategic thinkers by from the womb of Americana. What is Plan Z? Buy the bad guys.

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McChrystal Method

Mike Bonifer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: 000 Troops, 40, Pentagon, Afghan War, Stanley McChrystal, A Christmas Carol, Improvisation, Disney, Gamechangers, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

A character like Stanley McChrystal cannot afford to show vulnerability to his enemies, and by enemies I mean anyone who would prevent The 40,000 from going into production with him as its star.

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Seven Members Of House Defense Subcommittee Scrutinized By Ethics Investigators

washingtonpost.com | Carol D. Leonnig | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, John Murtha, Congress, Ethics Investigation, Pentagon Investigation, House Defense Subcommittee, New-House-Ethics-Investigation, Murtha Under Investigation, House Investigation, Pentagon Spending, Politics News

Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who h...

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Bush Propaganda Program: Pentagon Officials Won't Confirm Its Termination

Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Bush Propaganda Program, Pentagon Bush Propaganda, Bush Policies, Bush Pentagon Policies, George W. Bush, Government Propaganda, Propaganda, Pentagon Propaganda, Bush Propaganda, Politics News

The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, R...

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News
Chris Weigant

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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A Modest Proposal: Make the Pentagon Our Very Own Ministry of Culture!

John Brown | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Gates, Cultural Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, State Department, Clowns, World News
John Brown

The Obama-Biden team announced it would "expand cultural and arts exchanges throughout the world." But these words, despite their honorable intentions, have not resulted in much noticeable action.

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Obama Should Tear Up Matthew Hoh's Afghan War Resignation Letter

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Polls, Matthew Hoh, Afghanistan War, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Bush, Truman, President Obama, World News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Matthew Hoh told Obama exactly what he needs to hear about Afghanistan: that the war is a failed, flawed, no-win war. That it's a sinkhole for billions of tax dollars and a death trap for US troops.

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Matthew Hoh Resigns: State Department Official Quits Over Afghan War

Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Abdullah Abdullah, White House, Karzai, Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, Afghan War, President Obama, Kabul, Taliban, Afghanistan Troop Levels, Afghanistan War, Obama Decision, Mcchrystal, Marines, Military, War Games, Hoh, State Department, Nato, Matthew Hoh, More Troops, Iraq, Gates, Mullen, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...

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