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Former Naval Academy instructor faces sexual assault charges
A Marine Corps officer who worked as an instructor at the Naval Academy has been accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman in his Annapolis apartment following the annual croquet match between the academy and St. John's College in 2011. An...
Tags: Military Justice, U.S. Department of Defense, Trials, Navy Yard, Sex Crimes
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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...Tags: Barack Obama, Manufacturing and Engineering, Iraq, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Equipment
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Goldberg: Soldier girl blues
What if, during the presidential campaign, Mitt Romney had accused President Obama of wanting to let servicewomen serve in combat? After all, Obama had hinted as much in 2008. What would Obama's response have been? My hunch is that he would have accused...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Defense, Republican Party
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Will women have to sign up for the (nonexistent) draft?
When Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that he was rescinding restrictions on women in combat, he dropped this provocative comment: “Our nation was built on the premise of the citizen soldier. In our democracy, I believe it is the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Defense, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, U.S. Congress
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Women in combat? Old news for lady warriors of the big screen
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is lifting the ban on women serving in ground combat units, a landmark decision that will open up some 230,000 military jobs to women. But this is hardly new territory for the ladies of the big screen, where females...
Tags: Aliens (movie), Movies, Defense, Gemma Arterton, James Cameron
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The Asia opportunity
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has focused greater diplomatic attention and military resources on East Asia as part of a policy described as a "pivot" or "rebalancing." While American leaders are loath to admit it publicly, this is a...Tags: Conservation, Taiwan, Barack Obama, China, South Korea
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: Armed Forces, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Manufacturing and Engineering, Central Intelligence Agency
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Hagel nomination for Defense secretary hits more roadblocks
WASHINGTON – Efforts to confirm Chuck Hagel as the nation’s new secretary of Defense hit another roadblock Thursday, with Senate leaders saying a vote to move forward with his nomination could be delayed in the face of a “full-scale...
Tags: White House, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hillary Clinton, NATO
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Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars
WASHINGTON (AP) — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. But the troops that launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foot in the combat zone. Now, defense officials...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Awards and Prizes, Defense, Iran, Pakistan
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Obama: Half of US combat troops home within 1 year
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's decision to bring home within a year about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan will shrink the force to the size he found it when he entered the White House vowing to reinvigorate a stalemated...
Tags: Armed Forces, U.S. Department of Defense, White House, Politics, State of the Union Address
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Senate panel approves Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary. The Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 to send the nomination to the full Senate. Tuesday's vote broke...
Tags: Armed Forces, U.S. Department of Defense, White House, Central Intelligence Agency, Iran
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Hagel approved by Senate committee in party-line vote
WASHINGTON -- After a sometimes contentious debate, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted on party lines and narrowly approved the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of Defense, moving the bitter fight over President Obama’s...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, White House, Barack Obama, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Jeanne Shaheen
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