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Secretary of DefenseRobert M. Gates hosts an honor cordon to welcome Tunisia's Minister of National DefenseKamel Morjane to the Pentagon today at 1 p.m. EDT. The cordon will be held on the steps of the Pentagon River Entrance. Journalists without a Pentagon building pass will be picked up at the North Parking Entrance only. Plan to arrive no later than 45 minutes...
Carol Rosenberg of the McClatchyWashington Bureau has a hopeful story: In a rebuke, a military judge has disqualified a key Pentagon general from any role overseeing the Guantánamo trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, saying he doubted the general's impartiality in the case. The judge, Navy Capt. Keith Allred, ordered the Pentagon's general counsel [...]
In light of growing unrest around the world over rising food prices, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is asking for a closer look at the crisis and its security implications, a U.S. military official said Monday. Adm. Michael Mullen has instructed his staff to investigate the matter so his office can be prepared in the event the crisis becomes a defense issue, the source said. It's...
A judge for the Guantanamo tribunal says Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann lacked independence and must be replaced before Salim Ahmed Hamdan is prosecuted. A Navy judge has barred a Pentagon legal advisor from participating in the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's former driver, saying the advisor lacks independence.
DoD Identifies Army Casualties May 8th, 2008 The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died May 7 in the Sabari District, Afghanistan, of wounds...
The guys at Powerline have written about Doug Feith 's important new book, War and Decision . As undersecretary for policy under defense secretary Don Rumsfeld, Feith was number three at the Pentagon for the four crucial years that began the Bush administration. He participated in major decisions made regarding the war. Last Saturday, John Hinderaker interviewed Feith on their Northern...
Today in the superb and lively Digby-hosted FDL Book Salon featuring Harry Reid, the Senate Majority leader was asked : Senator, are you planning to hold hearings on the illegality of the Pentagon's propaganda training program of retired military officers that was recently exposed by the New York Times and Glenn Greenwald? Reid replied : The answer is yes. I have personally spoken to Chairman...
The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.
Following their recently announced policy to keep disabled vets from registering to vote , the Bush Administration's contempt for U.S. troops continues apace, as it's been revealed that Dover Air Force base had contracted out cremation of service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to a local pet crematorium. Classy stuff. David Edwards at RAW STORY has a video report , including the Pentagon's...
The "Tigris Woods Country Club" as envisioned by the Pentagon's planners. How do you rehabilitate a city that has suffered from half a decade of bombings, lootings, sectarian violence, terrorism, military occupation, large-scale infrastructure failure, curfews and all the horrors of some post-apocalyptic Hollywood blockbuster? According to the Pentagon, pimp it out with the most fantastic...
Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11 Published on Tuesday, May 06, 2008. Source: IPS WASHINGTON - Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East,...
The U.S. military is reinforcing the sides of its topline mine-resistant vehicles to shore up what could be weak points as troops see a spike in armor-piercing roadside bombings across Iraq, The Associated Press has learned.
It has emerged that Belgium is the latest country to feel the force of the Chinese cyber-super-power, with Belgian ministers claiming that state sponsored hackers have been targeting Federal Government computers. The Justice Minister in Belgium, Jo Vandeurzen, has claimed that the spate of hacking attacks also reported to parliament by Foreign Affairs Minister Karel De Gucht, definitely originated
Within the next month, the Pentagon will submit its 2009 budget to Congress and it's a fair bet that it will be even larger than the staggering 2008 one. Like the Army and the Marines, the Pentagon itself is overstretched and under strain -- and like the two services, which are expected to add 92,000 new troops over the next five years (at an estimated cost of $1.2 billion per 10,000), the Pentagon's
The report “RFID Industry—A Market Update” provides an in-depth analysis of the RFID Industry. The latest trends and the future forecasts of the RFID (radio frequency identification technology) Industry are mentioned. The RFID market in different geographical locations is identified and segregated. According to industry statistics, the worldwide market for RFID technology was US $1.49 billion in 2004....
