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The 'Shake-Up' in US Defense and Intelligence [VIDEO]

Spending Cuts Bill Hits Defense and Foreign Aid

WASHINGTON -- Tea partyers insistent on cutting military spending and foreign aid will find plenty to like in the deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders. No money for an alternative engine for the multibillion-dollar Joint Strike Fighter. Millions of dollars in cuts for the United Nations. A major...

Dozens of Bodies Found in Mexican Border State

MEXICO CITY -- Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said. Security forces investigating reports that a passenger bus had been hijacked in the area conducted...

Pentagon: Libya Mission Has Cost US $550M So Far

WASHINGTON -- The military intervention in Libya has cost the Pentagon an extra $550 million so far, mostly for bombs and missiles, officials said Tuesday. The figure is not a full picture of the price tag for the operation in that it does not include such money as pay for U.S. sailors, airmen and other forces, who would...

Outsourcing of Armed Contractors Highest Ever in Afghan War

The number of security contractors working in Afghanistan has tripled since 2009 and is now at its highest level since the U.S. began its military involvement there after 9/11, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service. "In Afghanistan, as of December 2010, there were 18,919 private security...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

Department Of Defense

If Congress backs away from the automatic cuts in defense that the Budget Control Act calls for, the GOP will have little incentive to negotiate a balanced deficit-reduction deal.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Department Of Defense

Cutting the defense budget is the target of rhetorical gibberish, just as President George Bush warned of a "mushroom cloud" over America if we didn't invade Iraq.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Department Of Defense

Cutting the defense budget is the target of rhetorical gibberish, just as President George Bush warned of a "mushroom cloud" over America if we didn't invade Iraq.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Department Of Defense

Change is coming, but we may choose once again to get in our own way.

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10/14/11 Department Of Defense Source: The Huffington Post Cutting the defense budget is the target of rhetorical gibberish, just as President George Bush warned of a "mushroom cloud" over America if we didn't invade Iraq.

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The Department of Defense (also known as the Defense Department, USDOD, DOD, DoD or the Pentagon) is the Executive Department of the Government of the United States of America charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States armed forces.

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