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The Pentagon: Where The Fat's At
(www.theittlist.com)
Will Obama have the guts and good sense to rein in this country’s runaway military spending? In These Times Contributing Editor Frida Berrigan offers a great primer on this crucial topic over at... More
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Divorces rise among military couples (www.usatoday.com)
Enlisted soldiers and Marines divorced their spouses at a higher rate in fiscal 2008 than at any other time in at least 16 years, according to Pentagon data released Tuesday. About 4% of married... More
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More dwell time soon, but stop-loss continues (www.militarytimes.com)
Deploying troops should start to spend more time back home starting as early as this spring, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today. But the Army program known as “stop-loss” that forces... More
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About that Timeline. . . . (www.vetvoice.com)
Remember when the Bush Administration fought like a cornered wolverine against anything remotely resembling a timeline for withdrawal in Iraq? Remember all that talk about "surrendering" and how a... More
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Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security (www.washingtonpost.com)
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic... More
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Liberals Angry Over Obama Keeping Gates as Pentagon Chief (www.foxnews.com)
President-elect Obama's expected selection of Robert Gates as his defense secretary and retired Gen. Jim Jones as his national security adviser is raising eyebrows among liberals.
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Who Rules the Pentagon?
(www.motherjones.com)
[Note for Readers: With this post, TomDispatch closes for the Thanksgiving holiday. We'll be back next Monday. By the way, to listen to an audio interview about Obama and the Pentagon with today's... More
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Officials: Obama to ask Gates to stay at Pentagon (www.washingtonpost.com)
Seeking experience in wartime, President-elect Barack Obama intends to re-enlist Defense Secretary Robert Gates as head of the Pentagon _ if only temporarily _ and has chosen a retired Marine general... More
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Changing of the Guard (www.lasvegassun.com)
When a blue-ribbon commission created by Congress in 2005 released its final report in January on the status of National Guard and Reserve forces, it was not well received by the Pentagon. The... More
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Measuring DoD-VA records sharing proves hard (www.militarytimes.com)
The Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs are making “great strides” in the ability to electronically share the medical records of troops and former troops under their care who are... More
Submitted 9 days ago by SpencerKent on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
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