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On Nov. 4, amid all the excitement surrounding Barack Obama's election, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down a Pentagon program that included a 5 percent set-aside for companies run by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama ’s promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for suspected terrorists will force the new president to decide what to do with inmates who can’t be tried for war crimes yet are deemed too dangerous to be released.
The next administration must quickly reduce its reliance on the private security contractors so favored and so protected by the Bush administration.
The Pentagon has seen no signs that Pakistan is preparing to shift troops out of its tribal region near the Afghanistan border due to rising tensions with India, a U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.
Since 2006, He Has Garnered An Image Of Fixing Problems At The Pentagon -- He Was The Anti-Rumsfeld, And His Time Was To Be Short. But Defense Secretary Robert Gates Now Faces A Host Of Issues He Thought He Would Be Leaving Behind As The New Administration Prepares To Move In And He Stays On.
SPRINGFIELD - Customers fearful that the incoming administration of President-elect Barack H. Obama will tighten federal gun regulations are buying guns now.
Though the top users opted out, supporters of a ban hope its moral force will deter the use of munitions that kill innocents years after the shooting stops MAARAKE, Lebanon — When Israel dropped a vast number of cluster bomblets on southern Lebanon during its 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas, it helped rekindle a long-simmering global campaign that could change the way the weapons are ...
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.
A terrorist chieftain in Pakistan masterminded the Mumbai massacre and kept in touch with the 10 attackers by satellite phone, Indian police believe. They said Yusuf Muzammil, head of anti-Indian terror operations for the notorious...
The Pentagon just completed its strongest recruiting year in four years. Pentagon officials acknowledge that bad news for the economy is usually good news for the military.
The Defense Department said Tuesday that it is revising its weapons-buying strategy to improve efficiency, the first change in five years that comes after cost overruns and delays on some major defense contracts.
From economy to diplomacy, the Obama Administration can greatly benefit from having China as an ally.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon chief says U.S. and British citizens were the targets last week in the violent siege of India's financial capital. Defense Secretary Robert...
Ethiopia announced Friday that is pulling its forces from Somalia by year's end, leaving the ravaged capital vulnerable to the Islamic militants who have seized nearly all of the country.
I am confident that Mr. Obama will work to end the ban on lesbians and gays serving openly in the military. Why am I so confident? Because Barack Obama said so.
Experts caution that a troop increase in Afghanistan is unlikely to lead to the sort of turnaround seen in Iraq.
