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23 Dec 2016, 8:37 am
Security Council resolution condemning the construction of further Israeli settlements in the West Bank (on which the United States had previously intended to abstain), and suggested that the Pentagon scrap the longrunning Lockheed Martin contract for F-35 stealth aircraft. [read post]
23 Dec 2016, 5:41 am
” The Pentagon’s press statement went on to state that the seized vehicle “is a sovereign immune vessel of the U.S. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 9:07 am
A leaked memo lays out Trump’s priorities for the Pentagon. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 10:53 am
The Chinese Defense Ministry referred to “friendly negotiations” with its U.S. counterpart, though the Pentagon released a statement in response castigating Beijing for behavior “inconsistent with both international law and standards of professionalism for conduct between navies at sea. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 8:28 am
Argument during the hearing may have bolstered anxieties among human rights advocates over the status of existing copies of the report: when questioned by the military judge as to whether the Pentagon had maintained its copy of the document, Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins repeatedly refused to answer. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 7:10 am
The perceived historic importance of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon, span virtually every traditional demographic divide. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 8:15 am
Despite congressional resistance, the Pentagon has urged a comprehensive response to the threats created by rising sea levels, including those directly and immediately posed to military installations along the East and Gulf Coasts. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 12:01 pm
A U.S. airstrike killed three ISIS leaders involved in planning multiple terrorist attacks in Europe, most notably the November 2015 Paris attack, the Pentagon has announced. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 1:04 pm
Williams (2008)); if the New York Times had actually asked Daniel Ellsberg to illegally leak the Pentagon Papers to it, it might have been punished. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 11:24 am
The Pentagon hopes that the increase in troops will strengthen the United States’ ability to coordinate with local forces in the coalition offensive. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 11:49 am
Notably, shortly after the session closes, Judge Pohl issues a one-page order requiring the government to determine whether the Pentagon has maintained its copy of the SSCI report. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 9:16 am
The bill includes provisions calling for an increased military budget and a halt to decreases in the size of the Army and Marine Corps, authorizing more troops than the Pentagon requested. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 9:34 am
The Guardian writes that the Pentagon did not indicate whether patients were still present in the hospital and whether any civilians were killed or wounded in the strike. [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 10:17 am
After crushing Election Day defeats left them facing a unified Republican government — and Donald Trump's plans for hundreds of billions of dollars in new defense spending — Democrats acknowledge that funding for their priorities will have a hard time keeping pace with the Pentagon's budget. [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 5:59 am
One hopes cooler, wiser, and more cost-conscious heads will prevail as the bill is considered at the Lege.1033 program: Not as free as 'free' soundsLots of Texas agencies got "free" personnel carriers through the Pentagon's 1033 program, but the Texas Public Policy Foundation points out that that statement masks significant costs to locals from operating the vehicles.CAN-DO ClemencyGrits was interested to learn of the CAN-DO Foundation, which stands for Clemency for… [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 2:13 pm
Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 12:45 pm
” The Pentagon may have wasted $125 billion and then hid the internal study detailing its failure. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 12:45 pm
In January of 2015, as the Defense Department was chafing under the sequestration of its budget, the Pentagon leadership got some great news. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 5:30 am
(The Deficit Control Act has separate caps for defense and non-defense spending, so cuts to Pentagon spending could not, for example, pay for restoring money for Planned Parenthood. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 11:44 am
The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] announced [press release] Sunday that Shawqi Awad Balzuhair will be transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the government of Cape Verde, a small country off the Western coast of Africa. [read post]
