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Report: Pentagon must focus on insider threat

WASHINGTON – Reviews triggered by the Washington Navy Yard killings last year have concluded that threats to Defense Department personnel and facilities increasingly are coming from trusted ...

DATE: Mar 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dempsey worries about effects of withdrawal talk

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Depicting a grim future for Afghanistan without U.S. help, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday that Afghanistan’s refusal to sign a security agreemen...

DATE: Feb 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Combat anyone? Few women lining up

FORT EUSTIS, Va. – Only a small fraction of Army women say they’d like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into ...

DATE: Feb 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Our troops need ethics

Misconduct forcing many out of service

DATE: Feb 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Air Force drug probe grows to 10 officers

WASHINGTON – An Air Force investigation into alleged drug use in the ranks has expanded to include 10 officers at six bases in the U.S. and Britain. Nine lieutenants and one capta...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Sexism part of military academies’ culture

WASHINGTON – Students at the U.S. military academies often believe they have to put up with sexist and offensive behavior, according to a Pentagon report released Friday, reflecting a cultur...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. warns nations about Arctic rights

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – The U.S. will assert its sovereignty in the Arctic, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Friday, even as Russia, China and other nations stake claims and expand their ...

DATE: Nov 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

New questions arise about Navy Yard attack

WASHINGTON – The company that employed the Washington Navy Yard shooter pulled his access to classified material for two days in August when mental-health problems became evident, but restor...

DATE: Nov 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report slams U.S. doctors involved in interrogations

WASHINGTON – A report by a medical task force says Defense Department and CIA health professionals violated professional ethics standards by helping to develop interrogation and torture tech...

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More NSA claims emerge

WASHINGTON – The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, The Washington Post reported Wed...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Officials seek stricter security regulations

WASHINGTON – A week after an IT contractor gunned down 12 workers at the Washington Navy Yard, Navy officials began moving to close gaps in the security clearance process, recommending that ...

DATE: Sep 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Already questions about endgame in Syria

WASHINGTON – Questions are already swirling about the endgame as the Obama administration prepares for a likely strike against Syria as punishment for chemical weapons attacks in its civil w...

DATE: Aug 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World