Topic: Leon Panetta
From an editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:You don't think of the nuclear warheads on top of Minuteman-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles as going bad. But in fact, the weapons, located in hardened silos through the American West, do have an expiration date: ...
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) - Over 100 U.S. aerospace and defense industry executives are urging Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to hold off on proposed changes to Pentagon contracts with industry, warning they would dampen competition, raise costs and lead to further layoffs at a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Failure of a special congressional committee to strike a deficit-reduction deal is expected to unleash desperate lobbying by U.S. arms makers to get lawmakers to block $600 billion in automatic cuts.It would also likely erode the unified front that ...
Canadian and US defense chiefs Friday reaffirmed their commitment to fund the F-35 fighter program despite shrinking military budgets, saying it was crucial to safeguarding North America's air space.Canada and the United States both face budget pressures "but we are not wavering ...
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Defense chiefs from the United States and Canada said on Friday that budgetary pressures would not derail development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, saying there was no real alternative to what has become the Pentagon's costliest ...
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Defense chiefs from the United States and Canada said on Friday that budgetary pressures would not derail development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, saying there was no real alternative to what has become the Pentagon's costliest ...
Pentagon chief Leon Panetta has warned that if Congress fails to prevent deep defense budget cuts, the US military will be left weaker, slower and smaller -- posing a danger to national security.Panetta, who has repeatedly invoked a "doomsday" scenario in describing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The man who the Pentagon announced this week would lead a review to prevent more mishaps at the U.S. military's main mortuary is stepping down from the job, in a surprise setback.Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona announced on Thursday ...
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Leon Panetta Disgraces American Flag!
and gets one hell of a cold reception from the ...2012-02-17
