Tag: Tara Copp

National Security

Budget cuts Afghanistan forces to 5,500

Tara Copp · February 2, 2015 5:10 pm

Cost figures related to closing Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota are shown before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission voted to save the base. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why Congress doesn’t want another BRAC round

Tara Copp · February 2, 2015 10:00 am

National Security

It’s Groundhog Day for the defense budget

Tara Copp · February 1, 2015 10:00 am

Rescue workers try to pull out a piece of an exploded Grad missile outside an apartment building in Vostochniy district of Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. The Ukrainian president called the blitz a terrorist attack and NATO and the U.S. demanded that Russia stop supporting the rebels. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

National Security

U.S. ups the ante against Russia

Tara Copp · January 30, 2015 10:00 am

Chinese soldiers march after the inspection of the honor guard during a welcome ceremony at PLA Headquarters in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, Pool)

National Security

U.S., China to hold defense talks

Tara Copp · January 29, 2015 10:07 pm

The commission tasked with finding ways to overhaul expensive military pay and compensation recommended allowing service members to enroll in a thrift savings plan, among 15 suggestions it presented Thursday. (iStock Photo)

National Security

Panel greenlights military retirement reforms

Tara Copp · January 29, 2015 6:35 pm

National Security

Hagel’s tenure: A rough start, a rough finish

Tara Copp · January 29, 2015 10:03 am

Air Force One, carrying President Obama, passes a Boeing building while taxiing to take off Tuesday, July 22, 2014, from King County International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo)

Boeing to build new Air Force One

Tara Copp · January 28, 2015 10:49 pm

The sixth-generation fighter would be a follow-on to the Air Forceâs F-22 Raptor (shown) and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

National Security

Pentagon asks Congress for sixth-generation fighter plane

Tara Copp · January 28, 2015 4:31 pm

US Africa Command Commander Gen. David Rodriguez speaks during a news briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, on the Defense Department's response to Ebola. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

U.S. Africa Command: ‘We can’t see’ enough to monitor violent extremist groups

Tara Copp · January 28, 2015 12:41 am

In this image made from video posted by a Libyan blogger, the Cortinthia Hotel is seen under attack in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Gunmen stormed the luxury hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, killing several foreigners and guards, officials said. The attack, which included a car bombing, struck the hotel, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea. The blogger, @AliTweel, captured the moments shortly after the blast, when flames rose up from outside the hotel, appearing to be from the aftermath of the car bomb. (AP Photo/ @AliTweel via AP video)

National Security

U.S. citizen killed in terrorist attack in Libya

Tara Copp · January 27, 2015 10:50 pm

Capt. Robby Modad closes the gate at an ICBM launch control facility in the countryside outside Minot, N.D. (AP/Charlie Riedel)

National Security

Pentagon wants $350b nuclear upgrade to deter aggressive Russia, China

Tara Copp · January 27, 2015 7:07 pm