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16 Mar 2022, 4:39 pm
Pentagon officials say a 10 percent casualty rate, including dead and wounded, for a single unit renders it unable to carry out combat-related tasks.... 'Losses like this affect morale and unit cohesion, especially since these soldiers don’t understand why they’re fighting,' said Evelyn Farkas, the top Pentagon official for Russia and Ukraine during the Obama administration... 'It is stunning, and the Russians haven’t even gotten to the worst of it,… [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]
26 Jul 2022, 10:04 am
The Pentagon reported spending $64.8 million on the software system. [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 2:52 am
"The package passed in two pieces, one focused on GOP national security priorities including the Pentagon, the other on domestic agencies dear to Democrats such as the Department of Health and Human Services.... [read post]
11 Jan 2024, 8:33 am
"... a new Pentagon report concludes, raising concerns they could be stolen or smuggled at a time Congress is debating whether to send more military aid to Kyiv.... 'It was beyond the scope of our evaluation to determine whether there has been diversion of such assistance,' the report stated.... [read post]
13 Jun 2013, 3:30 am
The Washington Post acknowledged late Monday that they have seen a copy of the report and confirmed that the Chinese now have the know-how to emulate some of the Pentagon’s most sophisticated programs. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 5:36 am
Writes the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal.They are talking about the first 2 paragraphs of the Washington Post's report on Trump's trip to Iraq:President Trump touched down Wednesday in Iraq in his first visit to a conflict zone as commander in chief, a week after announcing a victory over the Islamic State that his own Pentagon and State Department days earlier said remained incomplete.The president’s visit to Al Asad Air Base west of Baghdad, which was shrouded… [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 3:21 pm
Yesterday, the Senate armed services committee released a 63-page set of documents that illuminates how the Pentagon developed, selected, and approved its list of coercive interrogation techniques for Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 10:51 am
A U.S. drone struck a vehicle packed with explosives in a residential area of Kabul on Sunday, preventing an imminent attack on the city’s airport, the Pentagon said, as the massive international airlift out of Afghanistan entered its final hours. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 6:20 am
Lobbying “Illegal Lobbying Practice Got Scant Pentagon Attention” by Austin Wright for Politico Campaign Finance “How Trump Blurs the Line” by Katy O’Donnell for Politico “‘Outsider’ Presidential Candidates Prove Competitive in Fund-Raising” by Nicholas Confessore and Eric Lichtblau for New York Times California: “New California Rules Meant to Deter Coordination in Campaigns” by Jim Miller for Sacramento Bee Ethics Arizona:… [read post]
4 Jul 2018, 9:40 am
That difficult education convinced the Pentagon that more urban rioting was coming, so in early 1968 the U.S. military drew up extensive classified plans for how to deal such politically touchy problems. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 11:40 am
"Most European military sites equipped with US nuclear weapons fail to meet Pentagon security requirements, according to a US Air Force study. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 12:24 am
The Pentagon seems to think so, which is why it is updating its computer security systems to respond to more sophisticated threats. [read post]
21 Mar 2018, 2:40 pm
An AC-130 gunship, the most feared asset in the Pentagon's special operations aircraft inventory, flew a highly peculiar path around south Seattle on Tuesday afternoon. [read post]
15 Aug 2007, 9:08 pm
A Pentagon report to be released tomorrow discloses there were 99 suicides in the military last year. [read post]
29 May 2020, 9:03 am
That future has arrived, and it is nothing less than a new cold war: The constant, interminable Chinese computer hacks of American warships’ maintenance records, Pentagon personnel records, and so forth constitute war by other means. [read post]
12 Feb 2022, 2:27 pm
A former Joint Staff director of operations believes current Pentagon officials are not adequately prepared for a military conflict, in part due to cultural factors such as critical race theory.Retired Marine Corps Lt. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 7:41 am
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s senior military leadership on Tuesday branded the riot Jan. 6 at the Capitol “sedition and insurrection” and admonished troops to heed their charge to protect and defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 4:37 am
The continued closure of Pakistani supply routes to U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan is costing the Pentagon nearly $100 million a month, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 7:47 am
"I am of course struck that so many of my colleagues who are so worried about the deficit apparently think the Pentagon is funded with Monopoly money that somehow doesn't count," said Sen. [read post]
