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May 20, 2013, 6:00 am
By
Carlo Muñoz
Members of the House Armed Services Committee will begin work next week on the Pentagon's fiscal 2014 budget plan. House defense subcommittees are scheduled to begin markups this week, with members of the strategic threats subpanel starting things off on Wednesday.
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May 19, 2013, 5:36 pm
By
Jordy Yager
Obama is expected to lay out the legal justification for armed drone strikes in the address at the National Defense University.
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May 19, 2013, 6:00 am
By
Jeremy Herb
Subcommittee markups begin this week, and the intense work will soon gear up. Here are five things to watch.
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May 18, 2013, 10:53 am
By
Zack Colman
The Pentagon wants Congress to funnel funds toward expenses for the Afghanistan war and transportation.
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May 18, 2013, 8:29 am
By
Carlo Muñoz
The announcement came one day before North Korea reportedly fired three short-range missiles from its east coast.
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May 17, 2013, 4:10 pm
By
Carlo Muñoz
Recent deliveries of advanced Russian missiles to Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces could embolden the regime into making a critical "miscalculation," triggering a regional war.
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May 17, 2013, 3:50 pm
By
Jeremy Herb
The Joint Chiefs chairman and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declined to endorse any specific measures from Congress.
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May 17, 2013, 2:29 pm
By
Jonathan Easley
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel needs to show more leadership in dealing with sexual assault cases in the military. “I think the president has taken strong leadership on this issue and I am urging Secretary Hagel to do the same,” Gillibrand told MSNBC’s Andrew Mitchell. “Secretary Hagel has … said he wants to remove from the chain of command the ability to overturn a verdict. We would like to add to that the ability of the commander to actually decide whether or not to got to trial.”
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May 17, 2013, 11:44 am
By
Jeremy Herb
Russia has sent Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces
advanced anti-ship cruise missiles, the New
York Times reported,
in the latest sign Moscow will continue to help Assad’s regime militarily.
Russia had previously provided the anti-ship cruise
missiles, Yakhonts, to the Syrians, but the latest shipment includes advanced
radar technology, according to the Times,
which cited unnamed American officials.
“It’s a real ship killer,” Nick Brown, editor in chief of
IHS Jane’s International Defense Review, told the Times.
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May 17, 2013, 10:10 am
By
Julian Pecquet
More than two-thirds of Americans – 69 percent – believe the issues raised by the congressional hearings on Benghazi, Libya, “involve serious matters that deserve to be investigated,” according to a Gallup poll released Friday. The poll suggests a sharp partisan divide between those who take the issues that Republican lawmakers are raising about last year's terrorist attack on the U.S. mission seriously and those who think they're politically motivated. While 86 percent of self-identified Republicans said it's important to probe the Obama administration's role in the security lapses prior to the attack and its response, only 49 percent of Democrats agreed the story raises serious questions. The poll of 1,022 adults was conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, just as the White House began to ramp up its efforts to dismiss the Republican focus on Benghazi. President Obama called the issue a “sideshow” on Monday, and the White House released 100 pages of internal documents showing the development of talking points late Wednesday.
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