U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says at the approval of President Obama, armed Predator drones will be used in Libya.
Gates and Marine Gen. James Cartwright, vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced the move at a press briefing Thursday.
Gates reiterated that U.S. troops More…
It has an uncertain budget, a team of fewer than two dozen military officers and civilians, and barely a year to make its mark on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan before the U.S. begins its transfer of security responsibilities to Afghans. In that time, a new military task force will attempt to More…
Less than a month after the Pentagon leadership warned it would unwise to abandon the military’s ban on open gay service this year, a fast-moving legislative effort this week has opponents of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” feeling like the law might finally be on the scrapheap.
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The Vet Voice Foundation has commissioned a rare scientific poll to survey military attitudes about the ban on open gay military service. It’s found broad and deep support among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for getting rid of the ban.
More on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) offer to trade the White House a Guantanamo Bay closure for a military commission for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. On ‘Face The Nation,’ Bob Schieffer asked what it’ll really take for Graham to deliver the Guantanamo votes from the GOP caucus. What did More…
Roll Call reports:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) announced Monday that he plans to introduce legislation to repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
“I will be proud to be a sponsor of the important effort to enable patriotic gay Americans to defend our national security and our
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy to Mullah Omar and commander of the Taliban’s military forces, was captured by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence in Karachi last week. The news has now leaked out. While you’re not going to see any Paul Bremer-esque “We got him!” preliminay end-zone dances, More…
During today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) tried to drill down on the pace of withdrawal from Afghanistan after the transition phase to Afghan control begins in July 2011. Menendez suggested that the Obama administration is deceiving the public More…
On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “We ought not to add troops in Afghanistan,” Specter said, adding that he questioned “even staying” in Afghanistan unless the administration demonstrates that continuing the war is More…
Check out this New York Times piece about the Afghanistan debate’s latest shifts in the White House. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are now on board with a 30,000-troop increase*, as is Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. More…
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