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Robert Gates Says Afghan Drawdown Timing Is Flexible

nytimes.com | DAVID STOUT and BRIAN KNOWLTON | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Afghanistan Timetable, Robert Gates, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News

WASHINGTON -- Officials from the Obama administration and the Pentagon tried on Thursday to reassure worried senators, telling them that plans to begi...

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Blame Canada: Pentagon Wonders If Neighbors Are 'Bad Guys'

AP | TED BRIDIS | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Canada, Espionage, Bad Guys, Canada Quarter, Canadian Quarter, Quarters, Counterintelligence, Defense Department, Commemorative Quarter, World News

WASHINGTON — Can Canada be trusted? In the midst of what turned out to be a bogus espionage scare over commemorative coins, senior Pentagon off...

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Pentagon Emails Suggest Distrust Over Ally Canada

AP | TED BRIDIS | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Spy, Canadian Spies, Coins, Canadian Mint, Foia, Maple Leaf, Spying, Northern Command, Espionage, Defense Department, Canada, Poppy Coins, Poppy Quarter, Skif, World News

WASHINGTON — Can Canada be trusted? In the midst of what turned out to be a bogus espionage scare over commemorative coins, senior Pentagon off...

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Afghanistan Is the War Obama Always Wanted

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Afghan War Strategy, Anti-War Movement, Bush, Iraq War, President Barack Obama, Barack Obama and Afghanistan, Taliban Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Troop Escalation, Politics News

Only the most hopelessly naïve, star struck or a true believer could have ever thought that President Obama would not dump massive numbers of fresh troops into Afghanistan.

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More Troops, More Rotations, More PTSD: Will Positive Psychology Save Our Soldiers?

Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Pentagon, Troops, Emdr, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Department of Defense, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Hypnosis, Acupoint Tapping, Veterans Administration, Posttraumatic Stress, Afghanistan, Iraq, Positive Psychology, Guided Imagery, Ptsd, Walter Reed, Health, Living News

Positive psychology may be worthwhile for corporate team building and personal growth, but does it have the mojo to counter the profound despair and disorientation that comes from the horrors of combat?

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No JFK Moment For Obama On Afghanistan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, President Obama Afghanistan, Cuban Missile Crisis, War in Afghanistan, John F. Kennedy, President Obama, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam, Military-Escalation-Afghanistan, Generals, Jfk, World News

There's the depth of American military involvement, commitment, and the entrenched thinking that Afghanistan is the front line in the war on terrorism. Obama shares this thinking with the generals.

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9/11 Text Messages Released: Wikileaks Publishes Intercepted Government Pager Texts As They Were Sent

Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Msnbc, Terrorism, 9/11, Washington DC, 9/11 Record, Intercepted Messages, Messages From 9/11, Wikileaks, 9/11 Events, Journalism, New York City, Dc, Government Issued Pagers, Open Government, Wikileaks 9/11, 9/11 Series of Events, Pagers, World Trade Center, Text Message Pagers, 9 11 Text Messages, 9/11 Text Messages, 9/11 Texts, 911 Text Messages, 911 Texts, 9/11 Text, 911 Text Message, 911 Text, Text Messages From 9/11, 911 Text Messaging, Politics News

Government employees sent more than 500,000 text pager messages In the hours before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At 3 a.m. (...

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Phil Carter Resigns: Key Pentagon Appointee Worked On Gitmo Detainee Issues

Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Phil Carter Quits, Carter, White House, Phill Carter, Phil Carter Resigned, Phil Carter Resigns, Guantanamo, Vets for Obama, Obama, Gitmo, Detainees, Politics News

Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department ...

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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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