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3 Sep 2019, 11:02 am by Vishnu Kannan
In response to the strike, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pushing an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act which would prohibit U.S. logistical support to the coalition, the Post also notes. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 4:52 am by Emma Snell
  U.K. defense secretary Ben Wallace has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “trying to broaden” the conflict in Ukraine after a series of explosions rocked Transnistria in Moldova. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 11:07 am by Jordan Brunner
” The Times writes that the latest draft of Trump’s executive order on Guantanamo would direct Defense Secretary James Mattis to detain suspected members of ISIS along with militants affiliated with al Qaeda and the Taliban. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 11:54 am by Cody Poplin
Even as the ceasefire shakily holds, President Obama announced Thursday a new round of joint U.S. and European sanctions on Russia’s financial, energy and defense sectors. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 1:14 am
Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea02/27/2008 Letter to Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman and U.S. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 7:18 am by Patrick Hulme
Truman’s secretary of state, Dean Acheson, famously gave a speech at the National Press Club in early 1950, seeming to assert that the U.S. security perimeter in East Asia did not include Korea and Taiwan—thus giving the communist states reason to believe that the U.S. would not intervene if the North were to invade the South. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 3:19 pm by News Desk
“Such action by Congress would not undermine COOL to the extent COOL is consistent with international trade obligations nor would it weaken the U.S. defense of COOL in WTO litigation. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 10:38 am by Scott R. Anderson
Beginning in May 2017 and periodically thereafter, U.S. military forces have engaged in direct action against pro-regime forces in Syria in defense of local allies in the fight against the Islamic State. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 3:41 pm by Sandy Levinson
  I think this was best illustrated by the wide berth given  JFK and his ad hoc "EXCOMM  to risk nuclear war to react against the reckless placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba that, at the same time, were defined by Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, as comprising far more a "political" than a true "national security" threat inasmuch as the US had a secure second-strike capacity to retaliate against any Soviet attack on the US. [read post]
4 May 2017, 10:41 am by Rachel Bercovitz
Following Trump’s call with the Russian leader, the U.S. administration dispatched Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Stuart Jones, to observe the talks in Astana. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 10:12 am by William Ford
Defense Secretary James Mattis pressured lawmakers to reject a bill that would end American support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, the Journal reports. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 7:23 am by John Bellinger
   For example, the White House insisted on having the White House press secretary announce the return of two Algerian detainees in July 2013, rather than leaving it the Department of Defense. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 2:02 am
Nancy Boyda (PDF 848 KB)Requests to the House Appropriations Committee as Released by Boyda03/27/2008 Remarks of Treasury Under Secretary David McCormick to the Japan SocietyRemarks Titled, "U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2015, 2:04 pm by Quinta Jurecic
In response to Secretary Carter’s concerns over spending cuts and troop withdrawals in the British military, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon invited an as-yet-unnamed U.S. official to participate in a British review panel on the state of the United Kingdom’s military. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 12:15 pm by Elina Saxena, Cody M. Poplin
   Secretary of Defense Ash Carter visited the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, which is currently on patrol in the South China Sea. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 3:49 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Immediately reverse the Trump administration’s public charge rule End the “national emergency” imposed by the Trump administration to enable the Department of Defense to build a wall along the U.S. [read post]