Topic: Barack Obama
President Barack Obama on Tuesday solemnly watched as US armed forces colors lowered in Iraq last week were returned to American soil in a ceremony marking the end of the near nine-year war.Obama, the US commander-in-chief, traveled to Joint Base Andrews outside ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense cuts that begin in the 2012 budget will ultimately cost up to 800,000 jobs, and additional spending reductions could push that figure to 1.5 million over the next decade, a top Republican lawmaker testified on Tuesday.Representative Buck McKeon, ...
The most senior woman to have ever served at the Pentagon, Michele Flournoy, plans to step down from her policy post to spend more time with her family, officials said Monday.Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, "has today announced her intention to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will begin talking publicly next month about the results of a U.S. strategic review undertaken this year to guide the Pentagon as it cuts hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending.Discussion of the strategy ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate plan requiring that all foreign al Qaeda suspects found in the United States be turned over to the military instead of civilian law enforcement could gravely damage U.S. counter-terrorism investigations, the Obama administration warned.Top administration officials charged ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is giving, not selling, two dozen second-hand F-16 fighter planes to Indonesia to strengthen security ties with an "important U.S. partner," the Defense Department said on Monday,Elaborating on an announcement on Friday by the presidents of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has asked the Pentagon for initial recommendations for the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan in 2014, a first step in planning the final U.S. drawdown there despite a bleak security outlook.Sources familiar with the discussions said ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday that cutting $450 billion in security spending over the next decade would take the Pentagon "to the edge" and appealed for U.S. lawmakers to avoid further cuts in national security.At a hearing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the British Royal Navy decided to build a new class of nuclear attack submarines in 1997, it wasted years before discovering its shipbuilding industry no longer had the design and production skills to finish the job.Prime contractor BAE ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Mitt Romney bashed President Barack Obama's policies and took an implicit sideswipe at rival Rick Perry on Tuesday in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars."We stand at the threshold of profound economic misery," Romney said at ...
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