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The calculations so far have produced a sweeping range. The Pentagon publicly estimates it will cost $500,000 a year for every additional service member sent to the war zone. Obama’s budget experts size it up at twice that much. Full Article at Outside the Beltway
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(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)A view from the window of an Air Force KC-135 plane looking at a KC-10 plane as members of the 459th Air Refueling Wing take part in a refueling exercise over the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 miles east of... Full Article at Everything Alabama
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So it looks like the long awaited Obama speech on Afghanistan is coming up next week. A smart Pentagon observer I know thinks the increase in troop strength will be about 25,000 but there will be all kinds of reviews and metrics used to judge progress. Full Article at Marc Ambinder
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The Pentagon is considering adding more flight test assets and software engineers to the $300 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program to avoid major delays to fielding the stealthy, single-engine aircraft. Full Article at Aviation Week
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Col. David N. Ramsey was recently promoted to that rank in a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. , attended by family and friends, including his mother, Ingeborg, his father, MSG (Ret) William, and his wife, Sharon. Col. Full Article at The Herald-Mail Online
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Pentagon boffinry chiefs have decided to spend more than a hundred million dollars on a new military database/map system which will let troops in the field collect, share and organise intelligence more effectively. Full Article at The Register
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This could prove to be climate science's Vietnam They’re calling it “Climategate.” The scandal that the suffix –gate implies is the state of climate science over the past decade or so revealed by a thousand or so emails, documents, and computer code... Full Article at Pajamas Media
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama staked the lion’s share of his first-term legacy on improving the economy and providing health care to every American — tall orders that will require patience and a great deal of hard work. Full Article at New Haven Register
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SPIEGEL: For weeks the president's security team has very openly thought and talked about the new strategy for Afghanistan. Why has it taken so long to reach a decision? Full Article at Spiegel Online
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Thanks to Major Nidal Hasan, the Pentagon is considering widening the scope of the regulations regarding the rights of soldiers to participate in “dissident and protest activities”. Full Article at Grizzly Groundswell
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WASHINGTON – The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions to a new U.S.-built fighter jet and deliver it to Israel by 2015, provided a deal is sealed in coming months. Full Article at World Military Forum
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Barack Obama will send more troops to Afghanistan Photo: GETTY White House sources indicated that Mr Obama is preparing to address Americans in a live prime-time broadcast next Monday followed by testimony before Congress by senior figures such as... Full Article at The Telegraph
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WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin should assume some of the financial risk for any new cost overruns or schedule delays on the F-35 fighter, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said Monday. Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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* Jet would incorporate advanced Israeli systems, arms * Lockheed Martin promises delivery in 2015 * Would not have Israeli electronic warfare system WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions... Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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President Barack Obama is expected to announce a "sizeable force" increase in US troops for Afghanistan early next week, tentatively December 1, according to a report from NPR. Full Article at Huffington Post
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2009 – The leaders of the Pentagon’s review board on the Fort Hood, Texas, rampage reported for duty here today to begin their 45-day investigation to what led to the mass shooting, a Pentagon official said. Full Article at GlobalSecurity.org
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WASHINGTON The Pentagon’s top acquisition official said on Monday that Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the new F-35 fighter jet, would have to cover part of the increased costs of the huge program. Full Article at The New York Times
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The Pentagon formally canceled the VH-71 presidential helicopter replacement program in mid-May, after it suffered from delays and ballooning costs. Full Article at The Hill
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The Pentagon says its review of personnel, health and other policies in light of the Fort Hood massacre will be completed by January 15th. spirityorker "Twilight: New Moon" certainly has credibility but it's not enough ... Full Article at Richmond.com
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Washington (CNN) - A Defense Department review in the wake of the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, is aimed at determining whether weaknesses in programs or procedures put service members and their families at risk, the military said. Full Article at CNN
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The Pentagon's Defense Comptroller Robert Hale listens to testimony during the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee on the fiscal year 2010 defense budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 20, 2009.
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The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One, with President Barack Obama on board, shortly after taking off from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates(L) and Chariman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen hold a press conference in the briefing room of the Pentagon in Washington, DC November 19, 2009, speaking about the shooting at Fort Hood.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (R) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen hold a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen hold a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Admiral Michael Mullen take questions from reporters during news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates(L) and German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg prepare to speak to reporters at the Pentagon November 19, 2009, in Washington, DC on their way to a private meeting.
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This undated photo released by Fort Riley shows Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Zorn. The Pentagon says that Staff Sgt. Zorn of Upton, Wyo. , died Monday when the vehicle he was in rolled over near Tal Afar.
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US Army General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff, briefs the media on the current state of the Army's Suicide Prevention efforts, discussing ongoing initiatives and programs on November 17, 2009, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
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On Sept. 11, 2001 our nation was attacked by a savage gang of terrorists whose intent was to kill innocent Americans and bring ruin to the United States ... The devastation they caused in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon was an act of war.
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Also last week, the Pentagon endorsed two other possible defensive arms sales for Chile's army. The first purchase would include six new Sentinel radar systems and six SINCGARS radio systems, at a cost of US$65 million. The second deal could include 36 Avenger planes and 390 ground-to-air missiles at a ...
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The Pentagon on Thursday [November 5] advised the U.S. Congress of the possible sale of stinger missiles worth about $455 million, AIM medium-range missiles worth $145 million and Sentinel radar systems worth $65 million.
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he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Cyber-defenders know what to prepare themselves for because the United States has used the kinds of weapons that now target the Pentagon, federal agencies, and American corporations
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Later in their meeting ... (Atta) told her he wanted to buy an aerial picture of Washington that hung in her office. He pulled out a wad of cash and threw money on her desk, even after she said she would not sell it. He asked about the White House and Pentagon, and she pointed them out.
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The recent attack on the military base in Texas warns that if the occupation policy of the American rulers continues in this way, without them folding the carpets of occupation and transgression in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is natural then that incidents and attacks similar to Texas will spread to the Pe...
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It is an honor for me to be in Marietta to pick up the seventh C-130J going to Ramstein. It represents the cumulative efforts of teams of people here in Marietta, the United States Air Force, the Pentagon and the folks at Ramstein who are supporting our missions around the globe ... There is no other ai...
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You are fighting a much smarter battle than we did in Vietnam. Our Army can take a mortar round ... and literally put it in the enemy's back pocket. ... But then I have another opinion. ... I wonder if possibly the Pentagon, the Department of Defense, is not overprotecting the medal. I do wonder that.
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Washington's political leadership, like the Pentagon, now accepts that the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan is best tackled with contact between the Pakistan armed forces and the Taliban, and not by the political governments of the region.
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Television, the Internet, Wall Street. The Pentagon could not fight wars, you couldn't get online, Wall Street could not make transactions without satellites.
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We will not go with the name of that man until the United States Pentagon confirms it because to be wrong on something like this is something you cannot take back ... When the Pentagon confirms it, we will tell you everything we know about him. To do otherwise would be irresponsible, and we’re not going...
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We will not go with the name of that man until the United States Pentagon confirms it because to be wrong on something like this is something you cannot take back ... When the Pentagon confirms it, we will tell you everything we know about him. To do otherwise would be irresponsible, and we’re not going...
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It looks likes a cross between a Humvee and a monster truck, and Pentagon officials hope it can save the lives of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is rushing the M-ATV, the latest version of the U.S. military’s blast-resistant vehicles, to Afghanistan as roadside bombs take a heavy toll on U.S. ...
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The list of things that Pentagon public affairs participated in during the run-up [to the Iraq war] and immediately after the invasion are horrendous
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The Pentagon war game did not formally endorse either course; rather, it tried to gauge how Taliban fighters, the Afghan and Pakistani governments and NATO allies might react to either of the scenarios.
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The Pentagon's top military officer oversaw a secret war game this month to evaluate the two primary military options that have been put forward by the Pentagon and are being weighed by the Obama administration as part of a broad-based review of the faltering Afghanistan war, senior military officials s...
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We spend a lot of time taking pride in what the Army does well, and when I say ‘we,’ I mean the Pentagon. We really have to focus on where we are falling short
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President Bush has chosen Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the Pentagon's director of operations, to oversee the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a ‘war czar’ after a long search for new leadership, administration officials said Tuesday.
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An accelerated drawdown in Iraq would give the Pentagon more flexibility to meet the force requirements for Afghanistan, even if no troops were transferred directly between the two theaters of war
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Once I started reaching out to the military alumni in the DC area, I got lucky ... I talked to Bill Bonvillian [director of MIT's Washington, DC, office], and he put me in touch with Frank Tapparo, former president of the DC club and a Pentagon official for years, and Mike Telson, the CFO of the Departm...
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The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan
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Congress could be receptive to President Barack Obama's pledge to end a 16-year-old policy banning gay people from serving openly in the military, a top Democratic lawmaker said. The Pentagon also signaled openness to a change
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The Pentagon is playing dirty pool on behalf of the already-dirtiest pool players from Boeing, with regard to the huge (179-plane, about $40 billion) air refueling tanker contract that Northrop Grumman Corp. and EADS won fair and square last year before it was stolen away from them
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The Pentagon’s plan is beyond illogical ... It delays the delivery of a new presidential helicopter fleet until 2024 and wastes as much as $15 billion in taxpayer money on the construction of a new presidential program that will be nearly identical to the VH-71A program that’s been in development for mo...
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