TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
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Military Photos: A Week Inside the Armed Forces June 23-29
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
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Free As A Bird
Saudis to release suspected Israeli spy vulture.
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Israeli Air Power Knows No Limits
From Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper:
A vulture tagged by scientists at Tel Aviv University has strayed into Saudi Arabian territory, where it was promptly arrested on suspicion of being a Mossad spy, Israeli and Saudi media reported Tuesday.
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Pesky Questions
Close to 200 lawmakers have written to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking questions about the pending $60 billion sale of F-15 jet fighters and other weapons to Saudi Arabia. They want to know the “rationale for a sale of such magnitude” and what might happen to the arms “in the event of …
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There's No Business Like the Arms Business
Earlier this week, Congress learned U.S. arms sales around the world fell by nearly half from 2008 to 2009 — from $38.1 billion to $22.6 billion. Apparently the world’s flagging economy affects air forces and ministries of defence just as much as it does Main Street car dealers and hardware stores. But taking some of the edge off that …