By Adrianna McGinley Department of Defense and State officials faced stiff questions from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the deployment of roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa in an effort to train African forces to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army, a known terrorist group in the region. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for [...]
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Iraqi-American-Blogger: The War In Iraq Is Not Over
By Lisa Kellman Despite President Obama’s assurance last week that all American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year, Iraqi-American blogger, Raed Jarrar, in an interview today, insisted while this will help Iraq move forward, America will continue to have an obtrusive presence . Jarrad and those in Iraq believe [...]
Obama: U.S. Removing All Troops From Iraq By Year’s End
The U.S. will remove all remaining troops from Iraq by the end of the year, President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon. “Today I can say that our troops in Iraq will definitely be home for the holidays,” Obama said during a short statement fom the White House briefing room The removal of combat troops began [...]
Sanders Calls On DoD To Zero In On Contracting Fraud
Citing a recent Pentagon report that shows fraud among Defense Contractors has cost the U.S. $1.1 trillion throughout the past decade, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) argued Thursday that the Pentagon needs to adopt stronger system for fraud prevention. “The ugly truth is that virtually all of the major defense contractors in this country for years [...]
NATO Confirms Striking Sirte Convoy
NATO aircraft struck the convoy now believed to have been carrying former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, according to Colonel Roland Lavoie, the spokesperson for Operation Unifies Protector. The airstrike hit two armed vehicles identified as holding pro-Gaddafi forces. The vehicles, which NATO says were part of a larger convoy, were reportedly “conducting military operations and [...]
Detainee Language In Defense Bill Irks Pentagon’s Top Lawyer
By Lisa Kellman Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson spoke out Tuesday against provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act’s (NDAA) that would force give the military full control of handling suspected terrorists. The Senate and House have each drafted versions of the 2012 NDAA, the primary funding bill for the Department of Defense, and [...]
Obama Sends U.S. Troops To Uganda
President Obama announced Friday that he has deployed American “combat-equipped” troops to Uganda to remove Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony from the battlefield. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the president said that the mission to take out Kony serves the national security interests of the United States. An initial team [...]
Obama Salutes Troops On 10th Anniversary Of Afghan War
President Barack Obama praised American troops Friday in a statement acknowledging the 10 year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. “Thanks to the extraordinary service of these Americans, our citizens are safer and our nation is more secure,” the statement reads. “In delivering justice to Osama bin Laden and many other al Qaeda leaders, we [...]
Israel Becoming Increasingly Isolated, Warns Panetta
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday that Israel has to focus on improving relations with its neighbors in the region. “At this dramatic time in the middle east when there have been so many changes, it is not a good situation for Israel to become increasingly isolated,” Panetta told reporters aboard a plane en-route to [...]
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General Martin Dempsey was sworn in as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Friday, an ascension that makes the four-star General the highest ranking officer in the U.S. military. Dempsey, who recently served as the Army’s Chief of Staff, takes the reins from Admiral Michael Mullen, who served as Chairman since October [...]