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Spending Cuts Bill Hits Defense and Foreign Aid
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- 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 reduction in spending on the Global Agriculture and Food Security Fund. It all adds up to billions less for the Pentagon and the State Department than what Obama had requested for the budget year ending Sept. 30, a reflection of the widespread congressional belief that ...
Dozens of Bodies Found in Mexican Border State
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO 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 a raid that netted 11 suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims. Then they made a grisly discovery - a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead. The bodies are being examined to determine whether they were bus passengers ...
Pentagon: Libya Mission Has Cost US $550M So Far
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- 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 have been deployed somewhere in the world anyway, officials said. But it is the first official figure released on the cost of setting up the no-fly zone in the North African nation and protecting civilians from strongman Moammar Gadhafi as he resists a movement to oust ...
Outsourcing of Armed Contractors Highest Ever in Afghan War
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsThe 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 contractor personnel working for [the Department of Defense], the highest number since DOD started tracking the data in September 2007," the report says. AP Private security personnel search hotel guests on Oct. 28, 2009, as they arrive at the bunker in the basement of ...
Opinion: Government Waste by the Numbers
By John Merline - AOL NewsIn an organization as big and sprawling as the federal government, it's sometimes hard to grasp the magnitude of the waste that goes on. But the Government Accountability Office has released a report that gets at this problem in a unique way. It looks at government programs with an eye to rooting out duplication and overlap. What it finds should be shocking to anyone concerned with how their tax dollars are spent. Here's a sampling, by the numbers: 2,300 That's the number of different investments spread out across the Defense Department, all sharing the goal of business system ...
Rolling Stone's Big Army Psy-Ops Story: Here Are the 5 Juiciest Nuggets From It
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsDid the Army deploy psychological warfare on U.S. politicians? That's the implication of an explosive story from Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings. In "Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators," Hastings reports that experts in "psy-ops," or psychological operations, in Afghanistan were asked to use their unique skill set on visiting dignitaries like senators. Here are the most inflammatory highlights from the article. The primary accusation Hastings alleges that the improper use of psy-ops occurred at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, under the orders of Lt. Gen. ...
Pentagon Eases WikiLeaks Security Measures
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsPentagon employees and contractors who have peeked at classified documents released by WikiLeaks will no longer have to have their work computers scrubbed by information security professionals. The Defense Department appears to have pulled back from what some considered a draconian -- and counterproductive -- response to employees who had accessed classified documents released by the secret-spilling website. In a memo released last week, Thomas Ferguson, the acting undersecretary of intelligence, wrote that if someone has accessed such documents, it's sufficient just to delete them from the ...
Gates Wants Dempsey as New Army Chief of Staff
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The general now heading army training is Defense Secretary Robert Gates' choice to be the next army chief of staff. Gates told a Pentagon press conference Thursday that he had recommended Gen. Martin Dempsey for the job. If President Barack Obama accepts and nominates Dempsey, the general would have to be confirmed by the Senate. Dempsey would replace Gen. George Casey, who leaves the army's top uniformed post in the spring. Dempsey is now commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command and previously was acting commander of Central Command. He also led the multi-national ...
Busy With Afghanistan, the U.S. Military Has No Time to Train for Big Wars
By David Wood - Politics DailyWe have learned through painful experience that the wars we fight are seldom the wars we planned. -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Feb. 1, 2010 Just after a cold, rainy dawn, a U.S. Army battalion under the command of Lt. Col. Charles B. Smith took up positions along a low Korean ridgeline with orders to stop the enemy tank columns racing toward them. The Americans were lightly armed draftees assigned to peacetime occupation duties in Japan. They'd never trained for major combat. But they wore the uniform of the most powerful nation on earth. They expected a short skirmish: When the ...
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