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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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Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language

Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.

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George Will: If Iraq Troop Surge Didn't Work, U.S. Forces Must Come Home Sooner

washingtonpost.com | George F. Will | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

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If there is a worse use of the U.S. military than "nation-building," it is adult supervision and behavior modification of other peoples' politicians. ...

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Chuck Hagel: Iraq And Afghanistan Aren't Ours To Win Or Lose

The Washington Post | Chuck Hagel | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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These wars have cost more than 5,100 American lives; more than 35,000 have been wounded; a trillion dollars has been spent, with billions more departi...

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Pentagon Worried About Obama's Commitment To Afghanistan

Yahoo! News | Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- The prospect that U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal may ask for as many as 45,000 additional American troops in Afghanistan is fueling g...

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Gates: Afghan Report Not All "Doom And Gloom"

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The United States and NATO need a new strategy to defeat the Taliban, the top commander in Afghanistan said Monday as he del...

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Pentagon Cancels Embed-Vetting Contract With P.R. Firm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

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Last week, Stars and Stripes' Charlie Reed broke the story that the Pentagon had contracted with a DC public relations firm called the Rendon Group to...

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Pentagon Profiling Reporters For "Positive," "Neutral" Or "Negative" War Coverage

Stars and Stripes | Stars and StripesMideast Edition, Thursday, August 27, 2009 | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media

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Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars a...

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U.S. Fast-Tracks MOP, New Bunker-Buster Bomb

SpaceWar.com | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home

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Amid continuing tension over political upheaval in Iran, the U.S. Defense Department says it wants to accelerate production of a 30,000-pound "ultra-l...

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Mother Jones Publishes Story by Writer Detained in Iran

Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

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A magazine has published a major investigative article by Shane Bauer, one of three Americans detained in Iran after accidentally crossing the border while hiking in Kurdistan.

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The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Landmine

Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

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Rather than shaping a nuclear policy to prevent the 21st century threats of nuclear terrorism and new nuclear states, the Pentagon reviewers are defending Cold War architectures.

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Congress Orders Private Jets For Lawmakers' Travel

Wall Street Journal | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

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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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The New Sub-Prime Threat?

Russ Baker | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

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I continue to be fascinated by the leaks that are coming out of the Pentagon during the Obama administration.

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Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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I was one of many in the late '50s misled and recruited into the nuclear arms race by exaggerated and deliberately manipulated, fears of Soviet intentions and crash efforts.

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Pentagon: Afghan War Review To Be Delayed

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates, asking that "a few other ideas" be taken into account, has extended the deadline for an assessment ...

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Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

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If It Squeals Like Pork...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

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You can always use an extra transport plane -- that's the way I figured it. I knew just where to find one, too. I called Congress.

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The F22: Toe of the Dragon

John Feffer | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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President Obama has started his fight with America's great dragon, the military-industrial complex. The toe, in this case, is the F-22, a stealth fighter jet.

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Robert Gates Scores Big Wins On Weapons Cuts

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Robert Gates is on a roll. Question is, how long will it last? The politically savvy defense secretary scored big legislative wins...

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