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This week the National Defense University and the Atlantic Council jointly hosted a major conference in Washington on the future of the Department of Defense, drawing literary license from President Obama by calling it "Audacity for Change - Transforming How the Pentagon Conducts Its Business." Underpinning this conference was the proposition that what happened to Wall Street and Main Street ... read more 
Washington (UPI) Mar 11,2009 The official in charge of coordinating the U.S. government's cybersecurity operations has quit, saying the expanding control of the National Security Agency over the nation's computer security efforts poses "threats to our democratic processes." Rod Beckstrom, the head of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Center, said last week he would be stepping down effec ... more
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Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009The United States, China and negotiating partners are willing to discuss a range of responses, even UN action, if North Korea test fires a missile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday. After her talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Clinton said China as well as South Korea, Japan and Russia are committed to dismantling North Korea's nuclear program and to opposing ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009US President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to the White House as both powers tried to defuse military tensions and focus on stabilizing the global economy. Obama is to take the symbolic step of meeting the foreign minister - which is not standard protocol but has been used sparingly by previous presidents - on Thursday after his talks with Secretary ... more 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009A tense US-China naval standoff in the South China Sea was the most serious military incident involving the two powers since Beijing held a downed US spy plane and crew in April 2001, a top official said Tuesday. US intelligence director Dennis Blair said China was sending mixed messages by taking a "more aggressive" military stance in Southeast Asia while also deploying ships for anti-pirac ... more  
Washington (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 The Bush administration, trying to craft a strategic policy after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, defined the problem of radical militancy both too widely and too superficially. The U.S. government acted too widely, inasmuch as it declared that we are in a worldwide war with terror without making distinctions as to the motives and objectives of various groups that use terrorism as a moda ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 11,2009 India took another step Friday toward joining the elite club of nations that have developed their own anti-ballistic interceptor systems. But it has a long way to go yet. The Indian Ministry of Defense announced in a statement that it had successfully carried out the third test firing of a Prithvi Air Defense anti-ballistic missile interceptor in the past three years. The test was carri ... more 
Manipal, India (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 Say this for Pakistan's army - its aftershave works. It seems to reduce to blobs of helpless jelly the critical faculties of U.S. "experts" on Pakistan within the CIA, the State Department and the Department of Defense. Since the jihadization of the military by Pakistan's former president Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in the 1970s, the officer corps has continued as a force multiplier for ... more 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009The US Defense Department said on Wednesday it has made no decision to delay the purchase of aerial refueling tankers, despite reports the White House asked it to put off the move. The Pentagon declined to discuss details of a request reportedly made by the White House budget office to consider postponing buying the new fleet of refueling tankers, as well as canceling a new long-range bomber ... more 
Seoul (AFP) March 11, 2009North Korea vowed Wednesday to take "every necessary measure" to protect itself as it issued a fresh warning that an ongoing US-South Korean military exercise could trigger a war. The communist state says the March 9-20 exercise, which involves tens of thousands of troops, is aimed at launching a "second Korean War" while Seoul and Washington insist it is a routine annual defensive drill. ... more |
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