Tag: Pentagon

Hayes Podcast: Bob Gates, Benghazi, and Hillary Clinton

TWS Podcast · January 8, 2014 9:10 pm

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National Security

Study cites ‘dangerous weak link’ in nuke security

Robert Burns · January 8, 2014 3:00 pm

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin. Franklin, the Air Force commander whose decision to overturn a sexual assault conviction led to major changes in military policy has decided to retire. Air Force officials said Franklin was retiring after more than 32 years. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, File)

National Security

Air Force commander at center of sexual assault case to retire

Associated Press · January 8, 2014 5:00 am

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden talk during a photo-op as they meet for lunch in the Private Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

White House: Obama not propping up Joe Biden

Brian Hughes · January 8, 2014 5:00 am

In this Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 file photo, soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division spread out documents and other objects on the floor while looking for evidence during a raid on an Iraqi house near Fallujah, Iraq. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

National Security

Reversals in hard-won Iraqi city vex veterans

allen-breed · January 8, 2014 5:00 am

US sending extra combat unit to South Korea

National Security

US sending extra combat unit to South Korea

Robert Burns · January 7, 2014 9:24 pm

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a new memoir says that President Obama lost faith in his blueprint for Afghanistan, part of a blistering critique of the Obama administration from the one-time leader of the Pentagon. (Getty images)

Robert Gates rips Obama, Joe Biden in new book

Brian Hughes · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Washington.(AP/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Robert Gates notes that Joe Biden is always wrong about foreign policy

Joel Gehrke · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

A June 20 photo shows the open-air pen used to confine detainees at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba. (AP Photo/Bill Gorman, File)

National Security

Obama administration transfers three detainees from Guantanamo

Susan Crabtree · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

Marine Recruit Haley Evans stands in formation during boot camp Feb. 27 at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina. Female enlisted Marines have gone through recruit training at the base since 1949. About six percent of enlisted Marines are female.ÃÂ The Marine Corps has delayed the requirement for female Marines to do three pullups because most women have so far been unable to pass the test.ÃÂ (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

Marine Corps quietly delays pullup requirement for women

Ashe Schow · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

Obama signs defense authorization act

National Security

Obama signs defense authorization act

Meghashyam Mali · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the military and their families in Anderson Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2013, in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. The first family is in Hawaii for their annual holiday vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama gives Christmas salute to military families

Susan Crabtree · December 25, 2013 5:00 am