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6 Jan 2016, 3:40 pm by Cody M. Poplin
In the Daily Beast, Nancy Youssef writes that the event remains oddly “shrouded in mystery—with the Pentagon refusing to explain their mission in an increasingly secretive conflict. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 1:17 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
The Hill reports that the Pentagon will transfer the first group of recently cleared Guantanamo detainees as early as next week, according to an unnamed senior U.S. official. [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 12:41 pm by Cody M. Poplin
According to Pentagon officials, Iraqi security officials have already begun to approach Fallujah from three different directions, initiating what officials have called the “isolation” stage of the fight. [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 10:27 am by Tom Smith
The toughest part of the integration, which President Obama and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter have made a priority in their final year in office, will be overcoming deep-seated opposition among many male special forces commandos. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 1:11 pm by Cody M. Poplin
Breaking news from the Pentagon today as it announced that the U.S. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 12:12 pm by Cody M. Poplin
” The Pentagon has denied any intentional effort to halt the transfers, but has invoked patient-privacy concerns to avoid releasing medical information and even the Geneva Conventions’ prohibition on using prisoners of war for “public curiosity” in order to block foreign delegations from taping interviews with detainees. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 11:57 am
"Pentagon thwarts Obama's effort to close Guantanamo": Reuters has this report. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 7:43 am
“This is not a combat mission,” one senior administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal directives to the Pentagon. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 11:58 am by Associated Press
The 1,300-mile trail system is expected to connect the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon and the Flight 93 National Memorial. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 12:24 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
Editor’s Note: Lawfare’s Headlines and Commentary will be at the beach next week. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 8:41 am by Steven Koprince
[Washington Technology] A feared brain drain and a pending retirement wave have prompted lawmakers and the contracting community to push for reforms and better training of the Pentagon’s weapons, supply and service buyers. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 12:55 pm by Elina Saxena
This latest development comes just days after a Pentagon report indicated that violence in Afghanistan was on the rise. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 12:53 pm by Elina Saxena, Cody M. Poplin
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a massive omnibus tax and spending package late last night, Politico reports. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 1:14 pm by Elina Saxena
In a rare appearance at the Pentagon today, President Barack Obama declared that U.S. coalition forces are making progress in the fight against the Islamic State. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 12:16 am by Old Fox
Ted Olsen's wife, you know, was killed in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon a few months later. [read post]
12 Dec 2015, 7:09 am by Elina Saxena
Bobby suggested that the Pentagon plan to create a series of global bases to coordinate counterterrorism operations is nothing new. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 12:56 pm by Elina Saxena
In a new exposé about the Islamic State’s oil trade, the Daily Beast’s Matthew Reed writes that while the “majority of ISIS oil is purchased by locals inside ISIS territory," the Syrian regime itself “has done business with ISIS from day one, just as it did with al Qaeda’s Nusra Front and other rebels who took over energy assets early in the war. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 2:00 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
During his testimony, Secretary Carter opted to keep mum on the details about the special operations force that the Pentagon will deploy to Syria. [read post]