Topic: Military And Defense Policy
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A U.S. military investigation has found American and Afghan commandos wrongly concluded there were no Pakistani forces in a border area where an air strike killed 24 Pakistani troops last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.In a ...
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 ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea test-fired a short-range missile on its eastern coast on Monday, the day its leader Kim Jong-il's death was announced, South Korean media reported.An unnamed South Korean official was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying he did ...
Lawmakers voted to elevate the head of the National Guard to a seat on the military's top council, granting unprecedented status to the country's part-time militia.The proposed change was strongly opposed by all the chiefs of the armed services and the Pentagon's ...
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived Thursday in "key ally" Turkey from Iraq, for an official visit that will focus on the developments in the Middle East, especially Syria."It's important for us to work closely with Turkey at this critical time," Panetta ...
The US military's F-35 fighter program, already suffering repeated delays, faces a spate of technical problems that the Pentagon expects will slow the pace of production, officials said Wednesday.The latest troubling revelations for the Joint Strike Fighter -- the most expensive weapons ...
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, ...
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 ...
Mauritania on Sunday urged that no ransom be paid for European hostages held in the Sahel region by Al-Qaeda's North African wing, at a meeting of European and African defence ministers.Twelve Europeans, six of them French, are now being held hostage in ...
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