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North Korea test-fired missile on Monday: report

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 ...

Lockheed in $4 billion U.S. F-35 fighter deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp is being awarded a $4 billion fixed-price U.S. Navy contract for 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, the fifth batch of low-rate initial production, the Defense Department said on Friday.The deal would provide 21 conventional models ...

Defense secretary to discuss strategic review

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 ...

U.S. military better prepared for cyber warfare: general

(Reuters) - The U.S. military now has a legal framework to cover offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command said Wednesday, less than a month after terming this a work in progress."I do not believe that we need ...

U.S. military better prepared for cyber warfare: General

(Reuters) - The U.S. military now has a legal framework to cover offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command said Wednesday, less than a month after terming this a work in progress."I do not believe that we need ...

U.S. 5-yr defense budget to count $250-260 billion in cuts

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Pentagon will unveil a five-year budget to Congress in February that will include about $250-$260 billion in cuts, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday.President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress agreed to a deal in August ...

U.S. crafting framework for cyber offense: general

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is still crafting a legal framework to guide any offensive moves in cyberspace, months after the Pentagon unveiled a broad cyber strategy, the head of the military command responsible for such operations said on Tuesday.Deliberations on ...

Budget cuts take military "to the edge": Panetta

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 ...

Panetta begins to prepare Pentagon for budget cuts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday the U.S. military should expect cuts to personnel, benefits and equipment as the Pentagon makes the "difficult choices" to reduce security spending by $450 billion.Panetta, in what the Pentagon billed as his ...

Yemen defense minister survives bomb attack

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ali survived an attack on his convoy when a car packed with explosives was detonated, a local security official in the southern city of Aden said on Tuesday.The blast, which injured seven soldiers traveling ...
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