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

  at the idle Kaesong industrial park in North Korea will be withdrawn. Pyongyang terminated cooperation early this month. The Pentagon is expanding anti-ballistic missile defenses on the U.S. West Coast, and the Lockheed Martin THAAD (Terminal High Altitude   Read more »

• Jeffrey: Should the United States intervene in Syria?

  readiness and prepare for a number of scenarios" relating to the conflict in neighboring Syria. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Pentagon has drawn up plans to possibly expand the force significantly.And yet the chances are, in today's political environment,   Read more »

• Defense Secretary Hagel to travel to Israel

  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 whether the United States would   Read more »

• Pentagon: NKorea could launch nuclear missile

  Clapper said.The DIA conclusion was confirmed by a senior congressional aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Pentagon had not officially released the contents. The aide said the report was produced in March.Since the beginning of March, the   Read more »

• Kaplan: How the military escaped budget cuts

  the budget change by more than 1 or 2 percentage points. There was a reason for this. Through the 1950s and early 1960s, the Pentagon was a hotbed of interservice strife. Richard Nixon 's first defense secretary, Melvin Laird, changed this by giving each service   Read more »

Around the web

• The Afghanistan War May End by 2024 … Maybe

  reported Jan. 3 that “Gen. John R. Allen, the senior American commander in Afghanistan, has submitted military options to the Pentagon that would keep 6,000 to 20,000 American troops in Afghanistan after 2014…. With 6,000 troops, defense officials said, the 2:49 PM from Global Research Read more »

• Jeffrey Nugent says his brother Ted Nugent is wrong on background checks

  and a former Army officer with assignments in the military police, artillery, and operations research and intelligence at the Pentagon. Ted and I recently attended the NRA convention in Houston, where he delivered the gathering’s final speech and continued 2:48 PM from Bangor Daily News Read more »

• 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 »