US Military Wants to Teach Taliban to Make Bread, Not Bombs

Apr 5th 2011 – 2:21 PM |AOL News

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Taliban prisoners at an Afghan detention facility will soon get a chance to trade their bomb-making skills for bread making, at least if a new vocational re-education program announced today goes...

Did Navy's Brain Injury Subjects Receive Substandard Care?

Apr 4th 2011 – 3:48 PM |AOL News

A Navy study designed to test an experimental therapy on people suffering from traumatic brain injury did not follow proper protocols for human subject research, the Pentagon's inspector general...

Defense Secretary: Libyans -- Not US Military -- Must Remove Gadhafi

Mar 31st 2011 – 3:22 PM |AOL News

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It will be up to Libyan opposition forces, not the U.S. military, to remove Moammar Gadhafi from power, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the House Armed Services Committee today. "Deposing the...

Western Allies at Odds Over Arming Libyan Rebels

Mar 30th 2011 – 3:14 PM |AOL News

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With the NATO-led no-fly zone now in place over Libya, world attention has turned to the possibility that weapons could be supplied to anti-government forces -- a step that there appears to be little...

Pentagon to Buy More Tethered Balloons to Watch Over Afghanistan

Mar 28th 2011 – 1:16 PM |AOL News

Helium-filled balloons equipped with cameras are gaining popularity with the U.S. military as a cheaper alternative to using high-flying drones in Afghanistan, and now the Pentagon plans to buy...

Intrigue, Brinksmanship Woven Into Hidden World of Pirate Ransoms

Mar 27th 2011 – 8:00 AM |AOL News

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When Tunisia's transport ministry announced earlier this month that it had secured the release of the hijacked ship the Hannibal II and its 31 crew members, authorities released few details other...

Pentagon: Gadhafi Arming Private Citizens to Help Fight Rebels

Mar 25th 2011 – 3:31 PM |AOL News

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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi may be arming private citizens to help battle opposition forces, a senior U.S. military official said today. "We've received reports today that he has taken to arming...

US May Hand Over No-Fly Lead This Weekend

Mar 24th 2011 – 5:49 PM |AOL News

The United States may hand over operational control of the no-fly zone in Libya to a coalition-led command-and-control structure sometime during the next several days, according to a senior U.S....

US May Send Drone Chopper to Help Japan With Crippled Nuke Plant

Mar 23rd 2011 – 3:03 PM |AOL News

Lockheed Martin

Cleanup work at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant presents a radiation risk to many workers, even helicopter pilots flying over the complex. One partial solution could be an unmanned aircraft...

US Commander: We Won't Stop Until Libya Is in Compliance

Mar 22nd 2011 – 3:34 PM |AOL News

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. military commander says the coalition military operations will continue in Libya until Col. Moammar Gadhafi complies with the U.N. Security Council resolution to declare a...

US General: Libya Operations Limited to Protecting Civilians

Mar 21st 2011 – 1:13 PM |AOL News

WASHINGTON -- There is no plan to dislodge the Libyan government or directly help opposition forces, a senior U.S. military official told reporters this afternoon, even as coalition forces move to...

Air Force Gears Up for Hypersonic Missile Test

Mar 15th 2011 – 12:25 PM |AOL News

U.S. Air Force

The Air Force later this month is set to test what could be a ground-breaking flight of a hypersonic missile. The X-51 WaveRider took its maiden flight last year, demonstrating the longest-ever...

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