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Newly cleared, Gen. Allen to command NATO
WASHINGTON — The White House will go ahead with nominating Marine Gen. John Allen to be top U.S. commander in Europe, following an investigation by the Pentagon inspector general that found his emails with a Florida woman were not improper....
Tags: FBI, Leon Panetta, U.S. Senate, Tampa, Jay Carney
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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: U.S. Army, Baghdad (Iraq), Barack Obama, Rebellions, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: U.S. Air Force, Western Africa, Armed Forces, Mali, Al-Qaeda
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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: David Petraeus, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Barack Obama, Fox News Channel (tv network), Afghanistan
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, U.S. Senate, U.S. Military, Barack Obama
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Bring my son, and everyone else's, home from Afghanistan
My soldier son called last month to wish his mother and me a happy Thanksgiving. My iPhone buzzed and there he was, sitting in a gun tower, his smiling face bathed in gauzy infrared light, an M249 machine gun propped at the ready behind him. For...
Tags: Terrorism, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Southeast Asia, Pakistan, Afghanistan
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Desi Arnaz, Hal Roach, The Untouchables (movie), Comedy (genre)
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Pentagon ends ban on women in combat
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is ending the ban on women serving in combat in the U.S. military, potentially opening up more than 200,000 positions on the front lines and possibly also jobs with elite commando units. Pentagon...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Army, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, U.S. Military
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a complex, captivating thriller, critics say
Opening in limited release Wednesday, director Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," a dramatized account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is already the talk of two towns. In Washington, questions have arisen about whether Bigelow and screenwriter Mark...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Kathryn Bigelow, Osama bin Laden, Movies, Entertainment
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Clinton takes responsibility for Benghazi failures
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing tough questions from Senate Republicans on the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, insisted Wednesday that she has moved aggressively to address security weaknesses...
Tags: Gastroenteritis, Republican Party, U.S. Department of State, Elections, Africa
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Women in combat -- it's time
When politicians pay tribute to members of the U.S. armed forces, they almost always refer to our "brave men and women," a recognition of the fact that women now constitute 14.5% of the nation's 1.4 million active-duty military personnel. But even...
Tags: U.S. Army, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, U.S. Military, Afghanistan
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Statehood for District of Columbia could get another look
WASHINGTON -- Hail to the 51st state. Statehood for the District of Columbia is a long way off, but retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has introduced the New Columbia Admissions Act to put the issue on the front burner on Capitol Hill. "It is...
Tags: Republican Party, Dick Durbin, Patty Murray, Elections, U.S. Congress
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