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2 Mar 2017, 11:08 am
The raid has complicated efforts by the Pentagon to speed up the authorization of counterterrorism missions by letting field commanders approve them rather than the White House, according to CNN. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 5:30 am
A Pentagon spokesperson defended the U.S. commitment to minimizing civilian casualties in a statement on Saturday and denied that the rules of engagement had changed. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 4:19 am
Segal agrees with many elements of what might be called the Pentagon View of cybersecurity, arguing that cyber threats are real, that the really problematic ones tend to emanate from nation states, and that power politics dominate. [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]
11 Dec 2023, 3:07 pm
Setting the defense budget at this level would be dramatically more onerous than the Biden-McCarthy agreement, which largely protected the Pentagon. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 7:56 am
The United States and Turkey have at times even seemed to have different impressions of their own diplomatic talks on the subject—like when Turkish officials claimed last November that President Trump had agreed to stop arming Kurdish groups, which was later walked back by Pentagon officials. [read post]
20 Dec 2020, 5:38 am
President Trump’s recent move to install a set of lame-duck “acting” officials atop the Pentagon (that is, officials who have neither been nominated to hold these offices on a permanent basis nor put forward for Senate confirmation) continues to spawn major policy changes. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
So for Savage repeatedly to stress the warrantless nature of NSA collection that targets foreign actors overseas---whether under 702 or under EO 12333---is a little like stressing the warrantless nature of Pentagon captures of enemy soldiers overseas. [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 1:03 pm
On Friday, the Pentagon released 198 photographs from detainee abuse investigations in Afghanistan and Iraq. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 7:30 am
Navy destroyer was diverted to the Yemeni coast to tighten up the blockade designed to prevent Iranian weapons from reaching Houthi rebels, and the Pentagon is reportedly considering further steps, including drone strikes and embedding U.S. troops with local forces. [read post]
20 May 2016, 1:02 pm
It leaves the answer in close cases to be sorted out quietly, behind closed doors, between the Pentagon and SASC/HASC. [read post]
22 Nov 2021, 5:57 am
The French military’s alleged efforts to counter the Wagner Group come as the armed forces are facing increased pressure from the coup d’état in Mali, a development the Pentagon has been ringing alarm bells about for some time. [read post]
4 May 2023, 3:14 am
” We have to recognise that it’s not just our civilian agencies that have been captured by industry — the military agencies, the Pentagon, and particularly the intelligence agencies have been captured by the military-industrial complex. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 12:26 pm
A Pentagon official described the operation as a “self-defense airstrike” that killed nine al-Shabaab fighters, but he added that the military is investigating whether there were other casualties. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 12:43 pm
In 2015, the Pentagon announced the military will work on a policy allowing transgender soldiers to serve openly — but those plans came to a halt when President Trump entered office and promptly signed an executive order banning transgender people from military service. [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]
14 Jul 2016, 11:30 am
This plan may very well lead to more civilian deaths and no accountability for Russia’s strategic indiscretion--and many in the Pentagon agree. [read post]
14 Apr 2017, 9:22 am
Defense News notes that Trump’s potential nominee to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, has no experience working at the Pentagon, raising questions over his ability to fill the shoes of current Acting Deputy Secretary Bob Work. [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 9:30 am
“The rhetoric is up to the president,” the Pentagon chief explained. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 1:11 pm
Breaking news from the Pentagon today as it announced that the U.S. [read post]
