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Foul play in Airbus airplane contract
If President Obama wants to create jobs, why is the Pentagon rigging the $35 billion refueling-tanker contract for a foreign company? ("Democrats aim to create jobs, Kaine says," Politics Jan. 3). Speaking in 2008 about the tanker deal in Pennsylvania, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said, "When you've got such an enormous contract for such a vital piece of our U.S. military arsenal, it strikes me that we should have identified a U.S. company that could do it."
Gates sending 1,400 more Marines to Afghanistan
The Pentagon is sending 1,400 more Marine combat forces to Afghanistan.
Pentagon anticipates $78 billion in budget cuts
updated 3 days, 4 hours ago
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will cut $78 billion from the Pentagon budget in the next five years, money that will come from shrinking the U.S military's ground force, increasing health care premiums for troops and other potentially unpopular cost-saving measures.
Gates wants Dempsey as new Army chief of staff
The general now heading Army training is Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates' choice to be the next Army chief of staff.
Gates proposes $78B in cuts over 5 years
updated 2 days, 5 hours ago
The Pentagon on Thursday announced a series of sharp cuts in defense spending over the next five years that senior leaders say will improve efficiencies but leave reduced numbers of Marines, soldiers and key defense systems.
Police: Ex-Pentagon official confused before death
A prominent national defense expert appeared confused and disoriented as he wandered inside a downtown Wilmington office building less than 14 hours before his body was dumped with a load of trash at a nearby landfill, police said Wednesday.
Inside the Ring
The Pentagon is scrambling to explain what appears to be an intelligence failure after Internet photos made public recently showed a faster-than-estimated advance of China's new fifth-generation warplane.
U.S. officials: White House picks special-ops chief
The top Pentagon job overseeing the secret special operations war on terrorist groups has been offered to former U.S. counterterrorism ambassador Michael Sheehan, according to two senior U.S. officials.
Man who helped get Vietnam wall built found dead
updated 5 days, 7 hours ago
A prominent national defense consultant was seen alive in downtown Wilmington less than 24 hours before his body was found in a load of trash at a landfill, police said Tuesday.
Happening Now
Israel, U.S. push back estimates of nuclear Iran
By Eli Lake - The Washington Times
Israel and the United States recently revised their estimates of when Iran will field a nuclear weapon, reflecting difficulties inside Tehran's program of building large numbers of centrifuges to enrich uranium. Published 6:34 p.m. January 9, 2011
U.S. plans to reward Sudan if vote goes well
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
The Obama administration is weighing options to give an early reward to Sudan's government if a referendum that would allow the southern part of the country to secede takes place without a hitch. Published 6:26 p.m. January 9, 2011
House postpones votes after shooting of Giffords
By Joseph Weber - The Washington Times
GOP leaders will postpone all legislation scheduled to be considered this week in the U.S. House of Representatives following the shooting Saturday of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Arizona. Published 9:05 a.m. January 9, 2011
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