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Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy
-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...Tags: Armed Forces, West Point, Paula Broadwell, Barack Obama, Afghanistan
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Pentagon planning to ferry more French troops, gear to Mali
WASHINGTON -- After a weeklong delay while the Obama administration debated whether to assist French forces fighting in Mali, the Pentagon is planning to begin ferrying additional French troops and equipment to the West African nation in coming days...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Mali, Armed Forces, Western Africa, Washington, DC
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Why Connecticut's Jobs Machine Is Sputtering
The Hartford CourantAs the year draws to a close, Connecticut, more than most states, remains hostage to the fiscal cliff talks in Washington D.C. But even without that bit of Yuletide feuding, the jobs picture here is grimmer than just about anyplace as the nation as a...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, Executive Branch, Employment
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Black Hawk helicopter flies itself over mountain range in test
In the blue skies above the Diablo Range, just east of San Jose, a Black Hawk helicopter flew a two-hour test mission controlled entirely by a computer -- without a pilot’s hand. There were pilots aboard the aircraft, but all maneuvers during...
Tags: Science and Technology, Landforms, U.S. Army, Armed Forces, Mountains
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Assad's last stand
Syria's 20-month-long civil war appears to be approaching a tipping point as fighting around Damascus intensifies amid signs that President Bashar Assad's grip on power may be weakening. As the final phase in the long conflict apparently draws nearer, the...
Tags: United Nations, The New York Times, Libya, U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama
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Marine brig officials grilled about Bradley Manning's jailing
former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a psychiatrist determined that wasn't necessary, as lawyers for the soldier at the center of the WikiLeaks case...
Tags: WikiLeaks, Prisons, Lawyers, Psychiatrists, Suicide
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Heat's Miller among Hall of Fame inductees
S.D. Prep Basketball Hall of FameA reigning NBA champion, Miami Heat veteran Mike Miller, is among 16 stalwarts who will be inducted into the South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame during next year’s banquet in Madison. Miller helped Mitchell High School to two State...Tags: Pompano Beach, Edgartown (Dukes, Massachusetts), Oklahoma City Thunder, Miami Heat, NBA Draft
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Religious tradition continues for 56th year in Danville
WDBJ7 ReporterIt takes months to prepare and dozens of volunteers to decorate just one tree in Danville. This week church members at Ascension Lutheran Church are hanging white and gold ornaments on their Chrismons tree. A Chrismons tree is different from a...Tags: Religion and Belief, Christmas
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Defending the world, bankrupting ourselves
The argument for leaving 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is more or less reasonable on its face. The Kabul government is fragile; our gains might be reversed; the Afghan military is not ready to stand on its own. Here's the unreasonable,...
Tags: Germany, Armed Forces, China, Defense, NATO
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Roger Ailes uses 'fair and balanced' Fox for a political pitch
Just a little more than a week ago, military affairs journalist Tom Ricks outraged the right-wing faithful by saying that Fox News Channel obsessed on the terrorist attack on Benghazi, Libya, in part because the station “was operating as a wing of...
Tags: Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Barack Obama, Politics, Afghanistan
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Anchorage-Based Military Unit Receives New Commander
Channel 2 NewsArmy Col. Matt McFarlane took over Wednesday as the new commander of the Anchorage-based 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in a ceremony held on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. McFarlane has served in the Army since 1992. most recently...Tags: Armed Forces, Afghanistan
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Manning held improperly in brig, Marine official testifies
An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months' confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., the Marines'...
Tags: United Nations, Witnesses, WikiLeaks, Lawyers, Armed Forces
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