So the rumors were true. Moments ago, Defense Secretary Robert Gates officially announced that Marine Gen. James Amos, the assistant commandant, will replace the retiring Gen. James Conway as the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Amos is the first aviator to lead the corps, and was a leading More…
Check out this bit of inside baseball in this excellent Greg Jaffe piece about gay servicemembers waiting patiently for a final and to-be-determined end to the military’s ban on open gay service:
Even President Obama, set to name a new Marine Corps commandant in the coming weeks, is likely to
About a week ago, I speculated on Gen. James Mattis’ future in the military, now that Gen. Ray Odierno is set to take over for him at Joint Forces Command. Mattis is a four-star Marine general. He’s leaving a major command. The military is an up-and-out system — you More…
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduces his bill to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” today. As I write, he’s giving a presser that (alas) I was unable to attend. But via Jen DiMascio at Politico, Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued instructions for his information-gathering team — Pentagon General Counsel Jeh More…
Marine Gen. James T. Conway, the commandant of the Marine Corps, became the first military service chief — or any flag officer, for that matter, so far — to oppose repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday.
“My personal opinion is that
President Obama will host this morning what’s expected to be his final meeting with his national security team on Afghanistan strategy ahead of a revision of/re-commitment to what the strategy will be and how to resource it. Attendees will include the chairmen of the military services, which means that this More…
We’ll know for sure imminently, but McClatchy reports Secretary Bob Gates’ full defense budget may cut purchases of the Marines’s V-22 Osprey aircraft — a kind of super-helicopter that can operate at long ranges – which the service absolutely adores. Here’s the Marine Commandant, Gen. James Conway, speaking More…
My pseudonymous friend Charlie has been AWOL from her perch at Abu Muqawama for so long that I thought Undersecretary of Defense for Policy-designate Michele Flournoy might have offered her a job. Alas, she’s just had to endure an extended jury duty stint, but now she’s sort-of back, and More…
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