by Tyler Pager | Feb 4, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – Automatic cuts to the Defense Department budget are “risky” because they imply diminish U.S. projection of power overseas, Ashton Carter said Wednesday at a Senate confirmation hearing in which there appeared to be little opposition to his...
by Ashley Gilmore | Feb 4, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON— The terrorist group, ISIS, is using social media as a new and effective propaganda weapon to spread its message, , Daniel Cohen, of the Institute for National Security Studies, said Wednesday. Located in Israel, the institute focuses on research of...
by Daniel Hersh | Feb 4, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Republican congressmen grilled Obama administration officials on President Barack Obama’s decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, criticizing the secrecy of the negotiations and the abruptness of the policy shift. Foreign Affairs Committee...
by Haley Hinkle | Feb 3, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – While supporting President Barack Obama’s decision to normalize relations with Cuba, Cuban human rights activists told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that opening trade and tourism between the U.S. and Cuba won’t end the Castro regime’s civil rights abuses...
by Daniel Hersh | Feb 3, 2015 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Gang shootings in the Washington metropolitan area have been on the rise in the last few months but how the gangs operate differs significantly based on their location – and that has caught the attention of law enforcement officials. “I know the...
by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Feb 3, 2015 | Health & Science, National Security, Topics
By Astrid Goh WASHINGTON — Veteran Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald brought his message of transparency about health care benefits to a town hall Tuesday morning. Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson and members from the Veterans Affairs Committee also participated in...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 2, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – The Pentagon requested $534 billion for 2016 on Monday as part of President Barack Obama’s budget, $35 billion dollars above the caps set by Congress in the automatic spending cuts. In addition, it proposed $51 billion for overseas...
by Medha Imam | Feb 2, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a 6 percent increase in the State Department budget — to $50.3 billion — as a way to combat increasing security threats around the world through diplomacy. The administration wants $7 billion to respond...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – A specially appointed congressional watchdog agency has found U.S.-funded reconstruction projects in Afghanistan are failing and costing millions of dollars. Meanwhile, a range of experts say the standards used to judge the projects are...
by Daniel Hersh | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The United States’ technological advantage over its enemies is slowly diminishing, according to Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work. He wants to change that. Work presented Wednesday the details of the proposed Third Offset Strategy that was conceived...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – Military chiefs on Wednesday warned automatic spending cuts could result in scaled-back services and difficulties in meeting the increasingly volatile security environment. Representatives from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines Corps...
by Haley Hinkle | Jan 28, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall expressed concern Wednesday about the U.S. military’s technological capacity to respond to foreign threats. Kendall spoke before the House Armed Services Committee along with Lt. Gen. Mark Ramsay of the...
