by Cat Zakrzewski | Feb 24, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Monday announced a 2015 budget proposal that would downsize the Army to pre-World War II levels, and he warned Congress even more military spending reductions will be made in 2016 and beyond if lawmakers do not curb mandatory...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 24, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The military is focusing on using troops more strategically in future ground operations, the head of the Army Special Forces Command said Monday. During a panel discussion on the need for humans in land operations following recent defense budget cuts,...
by Ellen Garrison | Feb 24, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — There is a real potential for Ukraine to split into two countries along ethnic lines, but there also is enough international and internal push against the idea that such an outcome as the result of the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovich is...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Feb 19, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – With U.S. troops set to leave Afghanistan by the end of the year, a report released Wednesday suggested that nonmilitary alternatives like art and community engagement can be effective ways to continue combatting violent extremism in the region. The...
by Jessica Floum | Feb 19, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Successful implementation of the Obama administration’s framework to reduce cyber threats relies on companies’ willingness to adopt the guidelines and spend money beefing up cyberdefenses, a panel of industry and government experts said Wednesday. “The...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 19, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — David Medine, head of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, defended the panel’s decision to make its first order of business a review of “glamorous” and timely privacy issues, specifically the National Security Agency’s telephone data...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 18, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration should make it clear to U.S. citizens that the U.S. is still “at war” with al-Qaida, and that the conflict will not end soon, experts at a Heritage Foundation discussion said Tuesday. The basic point is that the government has...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Feb 18, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A former White House staffer in the Bush administration Tuesday challenged the effectiveness of reforms to U.S. intelligence practices following the 9/11 attacks, saying the country needs to learn from that experience when addressing reforms to the...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Feb 12, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A panel of Middle East policy experts say the growing jihadist movement in Egypt poses an increasing threat to the United States. The experts told the House Homeland Security Committee Tuesday that terrorist and insurgent groups are thriving in the...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Feb 12, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Almost a month after President Barack Obama called for an end to the National Security Agency’s practice of storing telephone metadata, some senators said Wednesday they feared it would not be enough and pressed for action by Congress. The Senate...
by Jane Herman | Feb 11, 2014 | Living, National Security
WASHINGTON- The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program – widely known on college campuses as ROTC — is expanding to cover a more geographically and economically diverse student base, says retired Army Gen. Jack Keane. ROTC is the major military commissioning...
by Christophe Haubursin | Feb 6, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Pushing for support on her bill to move prosecution of military sexual assaults out of the chain of command, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke Thursday alongside veterans who were sexually assaulted while on active duty. The Senate is expected to take up the...
