An amendment demanding an exit timetable from Afghanistan failed, but got 162 votes, the biggest anti-war vote in the House on Afghanistan to date. All but nine of the supporters were Democrats, and included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
House leaders added billions of dollars in non-military spending before passing the war funds, so the measure must [...]
Kagan prevented the recruiters from using Harvards career office under university anti-discrimination rules because of the dont ask, dont tell policy that blocks gays from openly serving in the military.
How did we reach the point in this country where were nominating someone who unapologetically impeded the military asked Army National Guard Captain Pete Hegseth, executive [...]
My politics would be, must be, have to be completely separate from my judging, Kagan said on the second day of her confirmation hearing. The question is always what the law says.
Senator Jeff Sessions, the panels senior Republican, pressed Kagan on whether she would follow Obamas political agenda and whether she was a liberal progressive.
I [...]
Issued last September by General David Petraeus, the order authorized an escalation that included boosting military and intelligence assistance to help Yemeni forces strike al Qaeda targets, as well as deployment of more unmanned aerial drones to collect information and track high-value targets.
The order also authorized U.S. Special Operations units to work with local security [...]
Elena Kagan is no ivory-tower peacenik.
Judging by her own words, the Supreme Court nominee held the armed forces in high regard during her tenure as Harvard Law School dean. She had one beef with the institution, a big one its repugnant prohibition on openly gay service members.
Republicans are using that to portray [...]
S. approach to fighting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is this seemingly backward logic The more aggressively you protect your own troops, the less secure they may be.
The idea is that troops who put themselves at risk to protect innocents will ultimately help decrease violence against Americans. Thats because every time U.S. forces inadvertently [...]
S. relations with Afghanistan are strained, but assured President Hamid Karzai that the U.S. will stand behind his country long after the last American soldier is gone.
A day before Karzai meets President Barack Obama at the White House, Clinton and other senior administration officials gathered at the State Department with their Afghan counterparts for [...]
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, who is the Obama administrations nominee to take on additional duties as head of the new Cyber Command, also said the U.S. should not be deterred from taking action against countries such as Iran and North Korea just because they might launch cyber attacks.
“Even with the clear understanding that we could [...]
Momentum appears to be building for ending the ban on gays in the military. New rules ordered Thursday by Defense Secretary Robert Gates make it harder to discharge men and women under the policy known as “dont ask, dont tell.” His decision is intended as a stopgap measure as Congress weighs whether to go along [...]
Gates met with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdelaziz al-Saud after arriving in Riyadh yesterday from Afghanistan, as the Obama administration shifts from engagement to pressure intended to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
The U.S. is trying to persuade [...]