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When Tammy Duckworth speaks for vets, it is from experience (www.buffalonews.com)
When President-elect Barack Obama attended a Veterans Day service in Chicago earlier this month, a photograph that captured the somber moment ran on the front page of The Buffalo News and in... More
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Custodians of Empire
(www.thenation.com)
The Obama national security "team" -- part of that much-hailed "team of rivals" -- does not yet exist, but it does seem to be heaving into view. And so far, its views seem anything but rivalrous.... More
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Gates to Keep the Reins of War
(www.truthdig.com)
Multiple news outlets, from ABC to Fox, now confirm that Robert Gates will retain his post as secretary of defense for at least the first year of the Obama administration. The president-elect will... More
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Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq (www.mcclatchydc.com)
Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over... More
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Defense Secretary Meets With Obama Transition Team (www.defenselink.mil)
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates wrapped up his first session today with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team leaders, sharing insights about the initial challenges the new defense team... More
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Gates seen more likely to stay Pentagon chief (www.armytimes.com)
What Robert Gates once called “inconceivable to me” — his remaining as defense secretary beyond Inauguration Day — is looking a bit more conceivable to the rest of Washington. The... More
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Mullen: I’ll give the new President the “best advice I can” (talkradionews.com)
This is the first administration transition during wartime in forty years, and traditionally, a crisis will occur during that period, said Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff,... More
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A Military for a Dangerous New World (www.nytimes.com)
As president, Barack Obama will face the most daunting and complicated national security challenges in more than a generation — and he will inherit a military that is critically ill-equipped for the... More
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Obama supports advance funding for VA (www.militarytimes.com)
President-elect Barack Obama promised days before the Nov. 4 election that his administration would support the idea of approving veterans’ funding one year in advance in an effort to avoid... More
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Veterans care will be challenge for Obama (www.upi.com)
One of the biggest challenges the nascent Obama administration will face in the medium term is the fate of the ballooning numbers of U.S. combat veterans. The ability of the new president to keep his... More
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