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The Great Green Car Fleet

The Pentagon is buying Chevrolet Volts to help “green up” the military—while propping up sales of the bailed-out automaker’s most politicized car. The Department of Defense began purchasing the...

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Pentagon Spox Won’t Confirm Marines Had Live Ammo

A Pentagon spokesperson Friday would not say definitively that U.S. Marines in Egypt have been authorized to carry live ammunition, raising questions about the administration’s denial of reports...

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Panetta in Beijing

Cyber warfare is a key future battleground and strategic attacks can cripple nations, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in Beijing on Wednesday. Panetta said he raised the issue of China’s growing...

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Double-Dipping National Security Adviser Profiled in NYT

Tom Donilon, according to a New York Times profile, is as much a political operative as a foreign affairs director. The Times declared Donilon a “longtime political operative” who has been identified...

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U.S. Investigating White House Cyber Attack

Law enforcement and national security agencies are investigating the hacking of a White House computer last month that penetrated a network inside the White House Military Office that handles...

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Al Qaeda Winter

Pakistan-based al Qaeda is secretly setting up sleeper cells and a clandestine network of jihadists to destabilize and take over Libya while hiding under a new cover name to prevent exposure and...

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Iran Spy Network 30,000 Strong

Iran’s intelligence service includes 30,000 people who are engaged in covert and clandestine activities that range from spying to stealing technology to terrorist bombings and assassination, according...

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Cyber Jihad

Iran is continuing aggressive cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions and officials say the U.S. government has failed to take steps to halt the electronic strikes. The sophisticated...

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Chuck Hagel Has an Armenian Problem

Armenian-American leaders and human rights advocates have expressed deep reservations about the nomination of Chuck Hagel to lead the defense department. Hagel, a two-term Republican senator from...

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Pentagon Calls on Congress to Make a Budget

Top military leaders warned Congress that if a defense budget agreement is not made then the nation’s military will face serious problems, according to the Associated Press: “We are on the brink of...

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Pentagon Closes Airspace Over Annapolis for Obama Visit

The U.S. Northern Command has ordered the closure of airspace around Annapolis, Md. for President Barack Obama’s meeting with Democratic senators on Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

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Hollow Fleet

The U.S. Navy last month announced a reduction in fleet requirement that experts warn could further stress a fleet already stretched thin. The Navy announced it was reducing the size of its fleet from...

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Pentagon Assessing Nork Threat

The Pentagon’s Joint Staff is conducting an urgent threat assessment of North Korea’s new road-mobile missile and the danger it poses to the United States. The classified assessment is being done for...

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Cyber Threat Mounts

The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said on Wednesday that critical infrastructure like power grids and financial networks are weak and need to be strengthened against cyber attacks. “From my...

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Defending Defense

Republican leaders are dismissing charges that the party is fractured on national security issues following the overwhelming passage of a House GOP budget measure that fully restored recently slashed...

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Demoralizing

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel tried to mollify worried military leaders Wednesday, speaking publicly for the first time about the Defense Department’s pressing budgetary woes. Widespread cuts to the...

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Shield Up

The Pentagon has placed its national missile defense shield on heightened alert amid reports that North Korea is preparing a missile flight test, according to defense officials. The higher alert status...

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Pentagon Finalizing Rules of Engagement Against Cyber Attacks

The Pentagon is finalizing the rules of engagement granting military commanders clearer authority if they have to respond to an enemy cyber attack, USA Today reports. While the military has existing...

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Pentagon: Iran Expands Use of Proxies

Iran’s terrorist-backing government is expanding the use of proxies around the world to carry out its military policies, according to a Pentagon report. Tehran also continued building ballistic...

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Red China Power

China is building two new classes of missile submarines in addition to the eight nuclear missile submarines and six attack submarines being deployed as part of an arms buildup that analysts say appears...

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