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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Georgetown, Fiscal Cliff, Central Intelligence Agency, Barack Obama
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Sequestration puts U.S. at risk
One of the reasons Congress seems reluctant to stop budget sequestration ("The sequester stand-off," Feb. 7) is that few realize the real consequences of indiscriminately slashing spending in blind, indiscriminate fashion –– particularly for...Tags: Defense, Missile Systems, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama returns to arms control -- just in time
President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...Tags: Nuclear Weapons, State of the Union Address, Ronald Reagan, Pakistan, Nuclear Policy
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Are Drone Attacks Legal and Humane?
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelIn 2013, war is no longer combat between two groups of human beings, but instead it is computerized man-less flying machines that seach and destroy designated areas. Technology has created these computerized flying war-machines and they are designed to... -
In Theory: What is the morality of using drones?
Since President Obama took office in 2009, the U.S. military's use of unmanned drones to carry out attacks on terrorist suspects has grown by 700%. And with this growth in the use of drones has come an uneasiness at over the morals morality of using...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Ethics
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North Korea's 'red lines'
Last April, when a North Korean missile launch appeared to be imminent, this newspaper published my commentary urging the U.S. to "get tough with North Korea." My determination that U.S. actions to date had produced little or no effect in deterring the...
Tags: Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, South Korea, Pyongyang (North Korea), North Korea
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North Korea tested miniature nuclear device, state media says
BEIJING – North Korea tested a nuclear device Tuesday, state media said, defying international pressure to stop such activities and drawing quick condemnation from the White House. State media said North Korea successfully detonated a miniature...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Satellite Technology, United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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North Korea appears to conduct nuclear test, defying world powers
BEIJING -- North Korea appeared to conduct a nuclear test Tuesday in defiance of world powers, South Korean officials said, following through on the provocative step after weeks of threats. South Korea said it had detected a man-made seismic event...
Tags: Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il, Explosions, World War II (1939-1945), Communist Party of China
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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Al-Qaeda, David Petraeus, Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq
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Wrong on drone hits
WASHINGTON -- If George W. Bush had told us that the "war on terror" gave him the right to execute an American citizen overseas with a missile fired from a drone aircraft, without due process or judicial review, I'd have gone ballistic. It makes no...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Justice
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Army adding high-flying blimps to Aberdeen airspace
The Army is planning to move an over-the-horizon radar system, with more than 100 soldiers and a pair of giant, blimp-like aerostats that fly as high as two miles up, to Aberdeen Proving Ground in the fall, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said Thursday....Tags: Aberdeen, Washington, DC, Groceries, Air Transportation Industry, Services and Shopping
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