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The real threat to our homeland
We recently learned that the Pentagon will spend $1 billion to bolster U.S. missile defenses in response to "irresponsible and reckless provocations" by North Korea. This money, as announced by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, would add 14 new anti-...Tags: Weaponry, Government Debt, Finance, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Senate
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Egypt's president claims victory in release of 7 security personnel abducted in Sinai
Associated PressCAIRO (AP) — The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country. Seated with top...Tags: Weaponry, Gaza Strip, Religious Conflicts, Punishment, Armed Conflicts
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Obama administration says fourth American was killed by U.S. drone
WASHINGTON – A day before President Obama is set to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that it had killed four U.S. citizens – one more than previously known – with...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Queens (New York City), Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency
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Wittman-led panel taking stand against BRAC
Rep. Rob Wittman was against another round of military base closures before the Obama administration formally requested one. Now the House panel he chairs is poised to endorse that view. The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness has released its...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Defense, Hampton Roads, Rob Wittman
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North Korea sends top official, Kim confidant to China in highest profile visit of year
Associated PressPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to travel to China on Wednesday as a special envoy while Beijing is under pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor. Choe...Tags: North Korea, Armed Forces, South Korea, China, Seoul (South Korea)
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2 defense contractors sentenced in Navy air base bribery scheme
SAN DIEGO -- Two defense contractors have been sentenced to three years in prison for their part in a fraud and bribery scheme involving phony payments for the repair of military aircraft at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado. Robert Ehnow and...
Tags: Bribery, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Navy, Military Equipment, Prisons
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Hagel: It was furlough 680K or deepen readiness crisis
By Tom Philpott Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the furlough of 680,000 civilian employees for one day a week, from early July through September, to avoid taking deeper cuts in training and maintenance, which could have degraded readiness to the...Tags: Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Army, Government Debt, Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Fears grow of clash between Israel and Syria
JERUSALEM — Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria's warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative calm along the two nations&...
Tags: Yom Kippur, Weaponry, Tel Aviv (Israel), Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Lobbying, Human Genome Sciences Inc., Finance, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Politics
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North Korea fires another projectile off eastern coast
North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a...
Tags: Weaponry, Petroleum Industry, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Wars and Interventions, North Korea
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Lobbying, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Finance, Human Genome Sciences Inc., Politics
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North Korea missile launches follow months of threats [Timeline]
BEIJING -- North Korea's latest missile launch comes after months of fiery rhetoric directed against South Korea, Japan and the United States, including threats of an imminent nuclear war. The provocations eased with the conclusion of annual joint...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Petroleum Industry, U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Systems
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