Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton became the Windy City’s 42nd homicide this year when she was gunned down by an unknown attacker near her high school on Jan. 29. But the 15-year-old honor student’s death has had reverberations …
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Hagel’s Hearing: Profoundly Depressing
Watching the Senate Armed Services Committee interact Thursday with former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel—President Obama’s candidate to be secretary of defense—was a profoundly depressing experience.
Hagel’s …
“The Hills Are Alive”
Army Spc. Paul Varn monitors satellite communications at an observation point along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Jan. 21.
Black Gold Black Market
Army Major Gregory Stopyra deployed twice to the Iraq war: first, as an assistant fire support officer in Ninewah during 2008-09 in the northern part of the country, and as a planner in southern Iraq in 2010-11.
He spoke of …
Chuck Hagel’s Third Purple Heart
Chuck Hagel, who earned a pair of Purple Hearts as a grunt in Vietnam, all but earned a third on Thursday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He came away from seven hours of testimony …
Contract-Announcement Run-On Sentence of the Year
From Thursday afternoon’s Pentagon contact announcements:
Ace Info Solutions Inc.*, Reston, Va. (N65236-13-D-4939); aVenture Technologies L.L.C.*, Vienna, Va. (N65236-13-D-4940); Barling Bay L.L.C.*, North Charleston, S.C. (N65236-13-D-4941); Centuria Corp.*, Reston, Va., (N65236-13-D-4942); DKW Communications Inc.*, Washington. D.C. …
Japan Boosts Defense Spending, More Or Less
Hagel’s Hurdles
To hear Chuck Hagel’s detractors tell it, he’s a corrupt, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Israel, Iranian-loving, Castro-loving chicken-hawk who will hide behind his two Vietnam Purple Hearts as he slashes the Pentagon budget and …
Time to Curb Unintended Military Pregnancies
The U.S. military faces numerous challenges. Among these are the burgeoning costs of healthcare and persistently limited participation of women.
Practical solutions exist which can tackle both of these problems …
Minesweeper USS Scrap
The USS Guardian, which ran aground near the Philippines Jan. 17, will be cut into pieces and removed, chunky-style.
Hagel’s Confirmation, and the Return of Sam Nunn
A quarter-century ago, then-Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, pretty much doomed former senator John Tower’s chances of becoming defense secretary for the first President Bush.
Thursday, now-former senator, and …
Pulling Out…Without Giving Up
LOGAR PROVINCE — Throughout history, one of the most difficult maneuvers to pull off in combat has been the fighting withdrawal. It’s an aspect of war that plagued battlefield commanders from Napoleon to Lee to Bradley. …
22.2%
— The decline in U.S. military spending in the final quarter of 2012, the biggest quarterly drop in more than four decades, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. And sequestration hasn't kicked in yet.