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Data: Afghan War Costs US $3.6 Billion Per Month

The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

The United States spends about $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan, according to data provided by the Congressional Research Service. ...

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Pentagon: Recruiting Last Year Was Best Since 1973

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's personnel chief said Tuesday the military has completed its best recruiting year since 1973, meeting all its goals and bringing in a better educated group of young people.

The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps met goals for active duty and reserve recruiting during the budget year ended Sept. 30 – the first time that has happened since the all-volunteer force was established, said Defense Department head of personnel Bill Carr.

He told a Pentagon press conference that it's partly because of department spending on finding recruits, even as fewer civilian jobs were available due to the nation's economic problems. He also cited increases in military pay.

For the active-duty force overall, Carr said 96 percent of recruits had a high school diploma, the best showing since 1996. For the Army, it was about 95 percent, up 11 percent from the previous year. And 73 percent of Pentagon recruits scored above average on the military's math and verbal aptitude testing, the best showing since 2004, Carr said.

The military spends about $10,000 per recruit, taking into account advertising, recruiter time and office leases for recruiting stations, he said. Recruits are in the 90th percentile of earners for their education and time in the workplace, Carr said.

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U.S. Speeds Up Delivery Of "MOP" Bunker-Bomber, Denies Iran Is Reason

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded ...

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Obama Quietly Authorized 13,000 Support Troops For Afghan War

Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has a...

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House Approves Defense Policy Bill

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Despite a vague veto threat by President Barack Obama, the House on Thursday easily passed a major defense policy bill that calls f...

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Fort Carson Coping With Tragic Day In Afghanistan

AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver

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FORT CARSON, Colo. — The Pentagon announcement Wednesday confirmed their worst fears – the eight American soldiers killed in a bloody week...

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Is The U.S. Preparing To Bomb Iran? Pentagon Submits MOP Funding Request

ABC News | Jonathan Karl | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Is the U.S. stepping up preparations for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities? The Pentagon is always making plans, but based on a little-n...

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

The Associated Press | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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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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Senate Passes Pentagon Budget, War Funding Bill

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama weighs major shifts in strategy in the deteriorating mission in Afghanistan, the Senate on Tuesday passed a bi...

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Afghanistan: Pentagon Contracts May Be Funding The Taliban

GlobalPost | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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KABUL -- It seemed like such a good idea at the time. At a staff meeting in 2006, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, who was then commander of Combined F...

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Robert Gates Wants War Advice To Obama Kept Private

The Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson and Scott Wilson | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stressed Monday that military and civilian leaders should keep their advice to President Obama on Afghanistan privat...

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Happy Birthday, AFRICOM!

Brian Palmer | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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Unbeknown to most Americans, the Departments of Defense and State maintain a wide web of military programs across Africa. Collectively, they fall under the jurisdiction of AFRICOM.

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Billions In U.S. Aid To Pakistan Never Reached Army, Generals Say

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has bee...

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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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Pentagon Journal Calls For Repeal Of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media

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For a long while now, I've been of the mind that the current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that the Armed Forces enforces on its soldiers is pointles...

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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

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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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Latin Arms Race Heats Up: Obama Leans on Brazil To Buy Boeing Warplanes

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

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While sharing his vision of a more peaceful world with the UN and demanding big Pentagon cuts, Obama has also been lobbying Brazil to buy warplanes from shrinking defense giant Boeing.

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The Forgotten War

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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No so very long ago, Afghanistan was known as "the forgotten war." But these days, Afghanistan is hard to miss in the headlines. Obama needs to begin talking about our newly-forgotten war: Iraq.

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Helicopter Shortage Puts Green Berets At Risk In Afghanistan, Pakistan: Newsweek

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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Some U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan may be at higher risk than usual of injury and death because the Pentagon has not equipped their ...

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Brutal Destruction Of Iraq's Archaeological Sites Continues (SLIDESHOW)

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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A brutal plundering of this rich cultural heritage has been taking place in broad daylight ever since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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Afghanistan: Aid Agencies Say Pentagon Efforts To Enlist Their Help Place Them In Peril

GlobalPost | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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GENEVA, Switzerland International aid and humanitarian organizations are increasingly under the threat of attack in Afghanistan and are struggling to ...

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AIG Fights Pentagon Move To Insure Civilian War Contractors

ProPublica | T. Christian Miller | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congress could save as much as $250 million a year through a sweeping overhaul of the controversial U.S. system to care for civili...

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The Pentagon Gives Us a Teachable, New Media Moment

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

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The Pentagon plans to issue new restrictions that will make a serious attempt to restrict access to social networking sites.

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Families Stream Into NYC 9/11 Ceremony

AP | SUZANNE MA | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — The selfless spirit that helped mend a stricken nation eight years ago was renewed. Volunteers marked 9/11 Friday by tilling gardens,...

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Military Drones and the Ethics of Warfare

Laura Colarusso | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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There will come a time, military experts say, when it's technically feasible for a drone aircraft to take off from an air base without being flown by an operator sitting at the controls.

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