Barack Obama paid his first and still only visit to Egypt in the late spring of 2009. As a new President looking to turn the page on the George W. Bush era, he traveled to Cairo to deliver an address meant to repair America’s …
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What’s Your Service’s Waste Measurement?
The Pentagon’s top weapons-buyer, Frank Kendall, has issued a study trying to measure the way the U.S. military buys its hardware, smartly and otherwise.
It was the above chart that caught our eye. It details, by service, …
Japan Ready to Declare: We’ll Go First
TOKYO – Japan has no intention to go it alone in defending its territory or national interests from growing threats in the Asia-Pacific region. But an annual defense review released Tuesday and other recent developments signal …
Dracula’s Missile Defense
“Over the last 10 years, when resources have been relatively unconstrained, there's been a lot of things grow up out there, sometimes at individual posts, camps and stations, and sometimes across the institution, that have to be either dialed back, potentially, or eliminated, potentially.”
— Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking Monday at the annual Military Child Education Coalition National Training Seminar outside Washington, D.C.
Department of Redundancy Department
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reports, in a just-released audit, that many State Department grants to help rebuild Afghanistan have gone unaudited:
According to State Department records, between
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Trial Balloon
President Obama is considering pulling all 63,000 U.S. troops still in Afghanistan out by next summer, according to a story in Tuesday’s New York Times.
Apparently, President Obama is piqued over being dissed by Afghan …
Obamacare Delay Increases Costs and Complications
Putting off a minor provision could have a ripple effect on the Affordable Care Act
Female Troops Medevaced from Afghanistan at Higher Rate Than Male Comrades
As the U.S. military prepares to send women into the toughest combat billets for the first time, Pentagon medical officers have just released data showing that while “battle injuries” were the leading reason male troops were …
650,000
— The number of Pentagon civilians who will be forced to forfeit one day’s work, and the pay that comes along with it, over each of the coming 11 weeks. That's a 20% pay cut over the next three months. The cutbacks, forced by the fiscal vise of sequestration, apply to about 85% of the Pentagon’s non-uniformed workforce. If sequestration remains on the books, layoffs – and not merely furloughs – are all but inevitable for some of the Defense Department’s nearly 900,000 civilian workers beginning in the fall.
Hunting Down Che Guevara
Ernesto “Che” Guevera has morphed from historical figure to historic icon since he was hunted down and killed by U.S.-trained Bolivian forces in 1967. How much of the Argentine Marxist’s story is fact, and how much is …
Bye-Bye Birdies
F-18s leave the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Atlantic July 2 as they return to Norfolk.
July 4th: For Some, Freedom Is Fleeting
Well, it’s been quite a couple of weeks, depending on your viewpoint, for social reform or social un-inform.
The Joint Chiefs, admitting the military has not done enough to ensure the safety of women and men against rape and …