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Senior Marine Corps and Army leaders will discuss ways the nation's two land warfare services can work more closely together at a closed-door meeting in May, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones told InsideDefense.com this week.
Armed with a larger-than-expected federal budget surplus, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) yesterday said he will try to pump more money into the Defense Department's budget this year and pay for some of the programs on the military services' unfunded priorities lists.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) will offer an amendment to the $2 billion Kosovo supplemental appropriation asking for a tally of what European governments have pledged toward the Kosovo peacekeeping mission and what they have delivered.
The Pentagon official charged with building a defensive system to protect the United States from ballistic missile attack told a Senate subcommittee yesterday that a sea-based system "would make sense at some point in time," but there is no rush to include it now in the Defense Department's National Missile Defense architecture.
Defense Secretary William Cohen has sent Adm. Vernon Clark's name to the White House as his choice to be the Navy's next chief of naval operations, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton has told the commander of U.S. peacekeeping forces in Kosovo that only under "extraordinary" circumstances should American troops be sent out of the sector they are patrolling to back up other international peacekeeping forces, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
The Defense Department expects to start work this year on an urban combat road map that will tie together all aspects of military preparations for fighting in city environments, including budgets and concept development.
Systemic problems are preventing the Navy from accurately tracking the shipping and delivery of thousands of items, such as guided missile launchers, leaving the service's in-transit inventory tracking open to waste, fraud and abuse, according to a General Accounting Office report released today.
The Clinton administration will send an additional 200 civil police officers to Kosovo as part of a United Nations police force, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
NATO officials are expected to decide tomorrow whether they will shorten by two-thirds the deployment schedule for two additional strategic reserve battalions in Kosovo, a force that includes Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit based on the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
Former Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch told the agency's inspector general that he intentionally created secret files on unclassified computers to prevent other CIA officials from gaining access to them through the agency's computer network, according to an unclassified version of a CIA IG report into Deutch's improper handling of classified information.
Gen. Wesley Clark, the supreme allied commander in Europe, has asked NATO officials for three additional battalions from NATO's strategic reserve force in Kosovo to quell clashes in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, a senior Defense Department official said today.
The Defense Department will make no force level or deployment changes to U.S. military forces stationed in the Western Pacific following China's warning that it will use force against Taiwan if the island's leaders continue to stall on reunification talks, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
Behind its high-profile public relations campaign for "a few good men," the Marine Corps is waging a feverish battle to keep young Marines in uniform.
The Defense Department announced today its plans to spend $27 million this fiscal year to correct an imbalance in base housing allowance payments.
NATO allies have serious reservations about the United States' pursuit of a National Missile Defense system, Gen. Wesley Clark, commander-in-chief of U.S. European Command, told a House committee yesterday.
Despite specific benchmarks set by the Clinton administration for withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, those troops can be expected to remain in the region until Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic is removed from power, the commander of all U.S. Forces in Europe told a congressional committee today.
The Pentagon has two separate teams examining a stack of Defense Department-related documents the CIA found on the home computer of former CIA Director John Deutch.
The Pentagon's top missile defense official told a congressional committee today that despite a failed intercept test last month, his agency is still on schedule for a June review of whether to deploy a system designed to protect the United States from ballistic missile attack.
The State Department today gave formal notice that it was suspending the arms import licenses of two Czechoslovakian companies, two Czech citizens, and a Kazakhstani citizen.