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7 Jul 2016, 8:19 am
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7 Jul 2016, 4:15 am
The statement reacts to a conference call with a Pentagon official, and reads in part:The official said that such persons will be required to receive a medical statement from a military medical professional that they suffer from gender dysphoria.... [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 12:41 pm
The Silicon Valley firm Palantir is suing the Department of Defense for the Pentagon’s alleged unwillingness to utilize the company’s publicly available data management platform Gotham. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 3:53 am
Critically, the new rules add gender identity as a protected category in the Pentagon’s equal opportunity policy. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm
Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) calling it “the latest example of the Pentagon and the president prioritizing politics over policy. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 11:24 am
WASHINGTON — In a historic move, the Pentagon on Thursday lifted its ban on allowing transgender men and women to serve openly in the military. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 10:41 am
These gains underscore the Pentagon’s insistence that ISIS has not scored a “strategic victory” in over a year. [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 1:33 pm
The revelation underscores the unanticipated consequences of arming rebels and comes just six months after the Pentagon halted a much-maligned program to train anti-Islamic State fighters in Syria that cost roughly $50 million but only produced a handful of soldiers. [read post]
25 Jun 2016, 10:08 pm
Lastly, the NYT has a review of Calvin Trillen'sJackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America.In The Nation is a review of David Price's Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology. [read post]
25 Jun 2016, 5:37 pm
[JURIST] Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] officials said on Friday that the Pentagon will announce the repeal of its ban on openly transgender service members on July 1. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 12:26 pm
” After the Pentagon announced on Wednesday night that Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al Rahabi, 37, a citizen of Yemen, was sent to Montenegro after 14 years at the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Republicans on the Hill slammed President Obama for putting his political agenda above national security. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 1:30 pm
Visiting Website Can Get You on the List Beyond this, there are as many as 5,000 terrorist websites monitored by the Pentagon, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies on a daily basis. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:50 am
In the latest from Guantanamo, the Pentagon announced that a Yemeni man detained in Guantanamo for the last 14 years has been transferred to Montenegro. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 11:40 am
” However the Washington Examiner cites Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook, who stated that “the most important thing, we believe, in the Libyan situation is the formation of this government, the strengthening of this government, support for this government, so that it can handles these security matters on their own. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 9:20 am
The Times then attempts to explain why that true statements represents a lamentable state of affairs: The failure to close Guantánamo, where 80 detainees remain, is a shameful stain on Congress, which has hindered efforts to release prisoners and barred the Pentagon from moving those remaining to prisons in the United States. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 12:41 pm
Patrick Tucker of Defense One notes that Michele Flournoy, a former top-ranking official in the Pentagon under President Barack Obama and a likely contender to be Secretary of Defense in a potential Hillary Clinton administration, has called for more U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State and the Syrian regime. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 5:29 am
” It also gives supporting roles to increasing U.S. exposure of China’s state-sponsored commercial cyber-theft, dating back to a May 2013 Pentagon report (and similar private reports at the time), and including the U.S. indictments of five PLA officers in May 2014 and enhanced threats of U.S. sanctions during the same period. [read post]
18 Jun 2016, 7:59 am
Bobby Chesney examined what role the CIA will play in drone strike operations after President Obama approved a long-promised plan to give the Pentagon the tactical lead. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 12:15 pm
As part of the shakeup, Greg Miller of the Washington Post, reports that “the pace of the CIA’s drone campaign has plunged this year” as the Obama administration attempted to “shift responsibility for lethal counterterrorism operations to the Pentagon. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 7:30 am
” The bill is an understandable extension of last year’s Pentagon decision making women eligible for virtually all those combat positions from which they were previously excluded. [read post]
