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The provisions of Section 889 are quite broad, and key concepts are left undefined, such as how the Secretary of Defense is to determine what constitutes an entity that is “owned or controlled by, or otherwise connected to” a covered foreign country, or how the head of an agency should determine whether a component is “substantial,” “essential,” or “critical” to the system of which it is part. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 1:20 pm by J. Dana Stuster
ABC reported on Monday that the number was inflated in the statement at the suggestion of Jared Kushner, with the support of Defense Secretary James Mattis. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 11:50 am by Austin Koltonowski
” After an extensive process of consultation and review involving senior military officials and other experts, the Secretary of Defense determined that individuals with a history of a medical condition called gender dysphoria should be presumptively disqualified from military service, particularly if they have undergone the treatment of gender transition or seek to do so. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 11:46 am by Anushka Limaye
U.S. citizenship required. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 10:42 am by Lyu Jinghua
If the United States believes a more proactive cyber posture is necessary to improve cybersecurity, then it is highly possible that many other countries will choose to follow America’s lead, becoming aggressive in building cyber forces and developing cyber operation theories—just as more and more countries publicly declared the establishment of cyber commands or cyber forces after 2009, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates directed the creation of U.S. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 12:53 am by Nassiri Law
She was later acquitted by a jury, but her retirement savings was depleted for her defense fund and her daughter had to drop out of college because she couldn’t afford it. [read post]
24 Nov 2018, 8:34 am by Amy Howe
The events giving rise to the government’s appeals began in 2016, when then-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that transgender individuals would be allowed to serve in the military. [read post]
Accordingly, there was no basis for the defense’s motion to dismiss the charges nor for the defense’s request to have Haspel testify. [read post]
21 Nov 2018, 1:30 pm
In October 2017, Secretary of Defense James Mattis instituted the policy, which forces lawful permanent residents to pass new, undefined, and vague background investigations and requirements before even shipping out to basic training. [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 8:24 am by Nathan Swire
Secretaries of Defense and State met with their Chinese counterparts on Nov. 9 to discuss relations between the two countries ahead of the G-20 summit in Argentina at the end of this month, at which U.S. [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 11:56 am by Anushka Limaye
U.S. citizenship required. [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 5:00 am by Michelle Melton
Since January 2017, 18 senior Defense Department officials (including Secretary Jim Mattis) have acknowledged that climate change is a national security issue. [read post]
18 Nov 2018, 7:00 am by Robert Ross
As a share of GDP, the U.S. defense budget is nearly 75 percent larger than China’s defense budget. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 9:47 am by Preston Lim, Rachel Brown
” Trade War Continues Despite High-level Talks Top American and Chinese defense and diplomatic officials met in Washington on Nov. 9 for the U.S. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 7:02 am by J. Dana Stuster
Despite the ambivalent U.S. pressure on Riyadh and the confidence-building measures brokered by Britain, negotiations seem unlikely in the near term. [read post]
13 Nov 2018, 11:58 am by Anushka Limaye
U.S. citizenship required. [read post]
11 Nov 2018, 8:00 am by Kori Schake
  But there is no substitute for having a strategy married to its times, to use Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s term for the proper embedding of politics into strategy. [read post]