Front-Line Fighters:Don't Repeal "Don't Ask,Don't Tell"

Rowan Scarborough,The Washington Times

U.S. combat forces have voiced strong reservations about the effects on readiness of allowing open gays in the ranks,the Pentagon said Tuesday in a report that is likely to influence a Senate vote on whether to repeal the “don’t ask,don’t tell”policy.

Defense Secretary Robert [...]

Obama asks Pentagon for list of replacements for McChrystal

CNN-

Gen. Stanley McChrystal met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday morning —a meeting that may have decided McChrystal’s fate in the wake of politically explosive remarks the general and his aides made about key Obama administration officials in Rolling Stone magazine.

The White House has asked the Pentagon to make [...]

Obama’s War on Defense and Intelligence

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,Expose Obama

 Obama’s war on defense and intelligence is endangering our nation

The defense and intelligence communities are skeptical when dealing with Democratic Presidents. Democratic presidential candidates must trash both departments to win the primary votes of liberal activists. They make promises to decrease Pentagon [...]

Obama to take on ‘don’t ask’policy at Pentagon

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Obama will focus "at the right time"on how to overturn the "don’t ask,don’t tell"ban on gays serving openly in the military,his national security adviser said Sunday.

"I don’t think it’s going to be —it’s not years,but I think it [...]

Obama scrapping missile shield in Eastern Europe

By Jon Ward,The Washington Times

The Obama administration on Thursday said it is scrapping its plans for a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic that was intended to protect against the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran,but said it is doing so in order to deploy a [...]

Obama Grants More Rights to Gitmo Detainees

NewsMax

The Obama administration plans to issue new guidelines meant to provide prisoners at a U.S. detention center in Afghanistan greater latitude in challenging their detention,The New York Times reported in its Sunday edition.

Citing Pentagon officials and advocates for detainees at the U.S.-run prison at Bagram Air [...]

Iran Answers Obama with Missle Test

 

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI,Associated Press

Thugs in Iran return fists for Obama olive branches

Iran tested its longest-range,solid-fuel missile yet Wednesday — a launch that displayed Tehran’s reach and burnished the president’s hardline reputation ahead of next month’s election.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed the test,which [...]

Obama Flip Flops,then Flips Again

 

Karl Rove,Wall Street Journal

Obama can flip positions like an Olympian

Barack Obama inherited a set of national-security policies that he rejected during the campaign but now embraces as president. This is a stunning and welcome about-face.

For example,President Obama kept George W. Bush’s military tribunals for [...]

Obama Pentagon official blames U.S. for al-Qaida attacks

 

By Aaron Klein,Worldnetdaily

Rosa Brooks blames the USA for Al-Qaida

She believes al-Qaida was an “obscure group”turned into a massive threat due to U.S. policies.

She’s referred to former President Bush as “our torturer in chief”and a “psychotic who need(s) treatment”while comparing Bush’s arguments for [...]

DoD officials vow secrecy on budget

 

By JOHN T. BENNETT ,Defense News

Gag orders have gone out to the Pentagon

The Obama administration has directed defense officials to sign a pledge stating they will not share 2010 budget data with individuals outside the federal government.

In an undated non-disclosure agreement obtained by Defense News,[...]