Monat: November 2010

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2010 — Agree­ments reached at the Nov. 19–20 NATO sum­mit in Lis­bon, Por­tu­gal, rep­re­sent a blue­print the alliance must fol­low with “long-term …

WASHINGTON — The mil­i­tary can be a lot of things to peo­ple look­ing to enlist. It can be a demon­stra­tion of patri­o­tism, a col­lege pay­ment …

Defence will begin con­sul­ta­tion with indus­try on the imple­men­ta­tion of the his­toric Defence Trade Coop­er­a­tion Treaty with the Unit­ed States on Wednes­day 1 Decem­ber. The …

The $35 mil­lion expan­sion of the Mon­egee­ta Prov­ing Ground Com­plex was offi­cial­ly opened by the Min­is­ter for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today.

FRAN KELLY: As we heard ear­li­er, the US Sec­re­tary of State, Hillary Clin­ton, has described the leak of con­fi­den­tial doc­u­ments by Wik­iLeaks as a seri­ous …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2010 — Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma today pro­posed a two-year fed­er­al pay freeze to aid in reduc­ing the fed­er­al deficit. The pro­posed freeze …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2010 — Nation­al Guard sol­diers and air­men are mak­ing a big dif­fer­ence to civil­ian law enforce­ment offi­cers work­ing along the U.S. south­west …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2010 — The Wik­iLeaks release of clas­si­fied State Depart­ment doc­u­ments over the week­end con­sti­tutes an attack not only on Amer­i­ca, but also …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2010 — A gun­man in an Afghan Bor­der Police uni­form turned his weapon against coali­tion forces dur­ing a train­ing mis­sion in east­ern …

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Coastal Pacif­ic Food Dis­trib­u­tors*, Stock­ton, Calif., is being award­ed a max­i­mum $368,783,360 fixed-price with eco­nom­ic price adjust­ment inde­f­i­nite-quan­ti­­ty con­tract for full line …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2010 — Gov­ern­ment offi­cials con­demned the pub­li­ca­tion of hun­dreds of thou­sands of sen­si­tive, clas­si­fied State Depart­ment cables by Wik­iLeaks today. The web­site …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2010 — The Unit­ed States is “very com­mit­ted” to begin draw­ing down its forces in Afghanistan in July, but large num­bers will …

A rep­re­sen­ta­tive from the Aus­tralian Defence Force has today observed the Unit­ed States-Repub­­lic of Korea naval exer­cise in the Yel­low Sea. This naval exer­cise under­lines …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2010 — The only thing pre­dictable about the North Kore­an regime is its unpre­dictabil­i­ty, the chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2010 — NATO’S Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Assis­tance Force in Afghanistan con­firmed through oper­a­tional report­ing and the U.S. Embassy in Pak­istan that no ISAF …

WASHINGTON — A coun­terin­sur­gency cam­paign is a lot like a roller coast­er with many ups and downs, said Army Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, com­man­der …

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2010 — Move­ments of troops in South Korea and ships in the Yel­low Sea are part of long-planned exer­cis­es and should­n’t be …

U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND Alas­ka Marine Lines, Inc., Seat­tle, Wash., a sealift ser­vices com­pa­ny, is one of 11 con­trac­tors award­ed a con­tract on Nov. 23, 2010, …