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US Army Sends More Soldiers, Gear to South Korea
In February, the US Army will deploy 800 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Hood, Tx. to South Korea on a nine-month deployment as part of a broader plan to rotate...
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Highlights from Gates book “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War”
The cover of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates new book “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.” (Knopf) Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ new book, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War,” is one...
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2007 Patriot Missile Misfire Landed in Qatar Military Chief’s Backyard
A Patriot missile is launched. (Photo by James D. Mossman/ US Air Force) A US Patriot missile that accidentally fired during a 2007 training exercise in Qatar landed several miles away in the backyard...
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Budget Shows Lawmakers More Invested in Afghanistan Than Rhetoric Indicates
Soldiers from the Afghan National Army (ANA) march along a street during an exercise in Poll-e-Matack, north of Kabul on Tuesday. A US spending bill would send billions more to equip and train the...
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Pulling the Curtain Back on Air Base in Qatar
The old Combined Air and Space Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. (US Air Force photo) I still remember my first phone call to the US Air Force’s Combined Air and Space Operations Center...
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Obama and the NSA: Count the Code Words
US President Barack Obama winks after speaking about the National Security Agency (NSA) and US surveillance techniques on Friday. While signaling some changes, Obama mostly defended controversial NSA...
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Senior Sunni: Iraq Teetering on ‘Something Similar to the Syrian Situation’
Anti-government fighters pose Tuesday during clashes with Iraqi security forces in the Anbar city of Fallujah. Air strikes against militant targets in Iraq’s restive western Anbar allegedly killed at...
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ESSAY: When Everything is a Major Threat, is Anything a Major Threat?
Instability in Bangladesh, like this scene last year, made the US intel community’s list of top threats. (AFP photo via Getty Images) ESSAY: James Clapper has a list. It’s a threat list. The DNI admits...
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Syria Talks End, US Officials Hint Damascus Taking it Easy on al Qaeda
Syria’s Foreign Minister and head of the Syrian government delegation Walid Muallem arrives to give a press briefing with the Syrian government delegation in Geneva. (PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty...
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Hagel Calls USAF ICBM Launch Control Centers
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel listens as US Air Force Capt. Erin Gentile, missile combat crew commander, describe her duties in the Launch Control Center as he visits the E-01 Missile Alert Facility...
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