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6 Dec 2014, 5:59 am by Benjamin Bissell
Wells carried the news that President Obama nominated Ashton Carter to be the next Pentagon chief. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 11:04 am by Cody Poplin
Yesterday, the Pentagon also issued its report on the killing of Major General Harold J. [read post]
The report correctly notes that many police departments that receive military equipment from the Pentagon are not properly trained to use it. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 11:01 am by Benjamin Bissell
Last year, Carter wrote an article in DefenseOne that outlined his plans for the Pentagon, which you can find here. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 9:38 am by Tom Smith
Spontaneous cheers could be heard in many Pentagon offices as the surprise news of Hagel's resignation spread. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 8:52 am by Wells Bennett
Carter, a physicist with long experience in national security circles and at the Pentagon, as his new secretary of defense, according to a person familiar with the decision. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 7:59 am by Clara Spera
The piece describes the relationship as “full of friction,” with a Pentagon that doesn’t seem to fully trust its president: Obama has been seen in the Pentagon as being overly suspicious of the military and its inclination to use force to address problems. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 7:16 am
"He didn't want any more rock star military generals, he didn't want, you know, this constant fighting with the Pentagon over troop numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 9:35 am by Tara Hofbauer
” Still, the Pentagon has not changed its mind about sending military assistance to Ukrainian forces. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 5:59 am
President Obama appears to have decided that, with the U.S. stepping up its military involvement in various parts of the world, he needed a more hands-on, and on-message, figure at the Pentagon. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 10:19 am by Benjamin Bissell
The Military Times’ Andrew Tilghman asserts that, regardless of who is tapped, the incoming Defense chief will face major challenges in revamping the Pentagon’s budget, mission and culture. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 3:15 pm by Tom Smith
“I am worried about it, I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution,” Hagel said, including Pentagon leadership but leaving both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s names out of his list of officials who are worried about the U.S. military’s declining capability. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 3:06 pm by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel handed in his resignation under pressure on Monday, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national security team to respond to an onslaught of global crises. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 9:34 am by Bruce Ackerman
It only authorized him to attack states and groups involved in the assault on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon --  requiring future presidents to return for a new authorization if they choose, as Obama has done, to open up a new front in the war on terror. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 8:00 am
John Michael Gravitt – In 1984, Gravitt used a then-obscure False Claims Act statute to charge General Electric with fraud for altering thousands of timecards to allegedly cheat the Pentagon out of $7 million. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 7:32 am by Clara Spera
Of all the issues the Pentagon is dealing with, now it can add semantics to its list. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 7:04 am
Hagel came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestration....He raised the ire of the White House in August... directly contradicting the president, who months before had likened the Sunni militant group to a junior varsity basketball squad. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 6:30 am by Benjamin Bissell
Hagel came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestration. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 11:08 am by Cody Poplin
For its part, the Pentagon has decided that it will not wait for Congress to provide new funding before it will dispatch 1,500 new troops to Iraq. [read post]