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• Cyr: North Korea's behavior reminiscent of Cold War

  "Hitting a bullet with a bullet" aptly describes the challenge of missile defense. North Korea's threats underscore the importance of this technology.Other news overshadows but does not remove this threat. On April 26, Seoul announced 175 workers at the   Read more »

• Jeffrey: Should the United States intervene in Syria?

  Ever more credible claims by France, Britain , and some Israeli officials that the Bashar Assad regime has used chemical weapons have upped the pressure on the Obama administration to respond more decisively to the situation in Syria, and specifically to   Read more »

• Defense Secretary Hagel to travel to Israel

  (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says he will be traveling to Israel in a few days, his first trip to the Mideast ally since he took over at the Pentagon .Hagel mentioned the trip during congressional testimony on Tuesday as lawmakers pressed him on   Read more »

• Pentagon: NKorea could launch nuclear missile

  (AP) -- A U.S. intelligence report concludes that North Korea has advanced its nuclear knowhow to the point that it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, a jarring revelation in the midst of bellicose threats from the unpredictable commun   Read more »

• Kaplan: How the military escaped budget cuts

  President Barack Obama released his budget this week. Everyone seems to be saying it's dead on arrival. I'm here to tell you that the military part of the budget is doing no better than limping along.Even before the sequestration took hold, the word in n   Read more »

Around the web

• Week in Review: The Pentagon’s War on America and the Imminent Global Recession

  can enrich themselves at the same time. Five decades since the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) while the Pentagon and NATO escalates its war drive on the continent. Reports from Syria suggest that the US sponsored Al Nusra mercenary force 12:35 PM from Global Research Read more »

• U.S. Could Use Cyberattack on Syrian Air Defenses

  Pentagon has cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts. "One of the reasons the Air Force has paid so much attention to cyberwarfare is ... for beating enemy 9:23 AM from Data Storage Today Read more »

• Anthrax drug brings $334M to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm

  Law School graduate and Rhodes scholar who became a partner in Washington for the law firm Latham & Watkins. He served as a Pentagon appointee during the Carter administration and as undersecretary and then secretary of the Navy under President Clinton. He 5/18/13 from Chicago Tribune Read more »

• Pentagon planning to claim lowest-ever annual Afghan war costs since 2005

  The Pentagon is planning to request the lowest-ever annual supplemental budget from the government, about 79.5 billion dollars, which is the lowest cost for anti-terror war ongoing since 2005. The drop in budget comes as US troops and war equipments deployed 7:45 AM from Zee News Read more »

• Let's Stop Pretending Russia Will Help U.S.

  press has discovered that Syrian air defense systems are not quite so "formidable" as they were once described by senior Pentagon officials. It apparently takes a... more ›› The various schemes that have been proposed for a kind of tiddlywinks intervention 7:42 AM from Real Clear World Read more »