Too Much Status Quo at the Pentagon?
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Exclusive: For the second time, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is transferring a top-level commander rather than promoting a younger leader - raising eyebrows among military leaders
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Half a million people's records sent unecrypted Personal details of over half a million US service personnel and their relatives may have been compromised by a Pentagon contractor.â¦
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked NATO allies and colleagues for more effort in Afghanistan, but it is too early to tell whether his lobbying will pay off.
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The move reflects a feeling among top civilian officials at the Pentagon and in the White House that the American military needs a new direction.
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The Pentagon does not have a clear picture about the state of the war in Afghanistan, with U.S. commanders on the ground offering positive assessments while intelligence reports are more negative, the U.S. Marine Corps chief said on Friday.
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The Pentagon may have to boost the Army's size or call up more reserves to ease the war's burden.
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Two years after shutting what  critics called a deceptive propaganda office, the Pentagon is  embroiled in a new high-level debate over how to polish the  fading U.S. image abroad, defense officials said on Monday.
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With the Inspectors General at various government agencies under fire, some are questioning whether an important oversight role is being undermined
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The hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in the name of the war on terror pose a single, insistent question: Are we safer? Perhaps not.
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Post staff writer Renae Merle discusses the future of the Pentagon's relationship with its weapons contractors.
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Squabbling over who served tainted what to whom masks deeper rifts.
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Donald Rumsfeld, if he stays as  Pentagon chief, faces challenges not only in taming Iraq's  insurgency but in modernizing the U.S. military and fielding a  viable missile defense system, officials and analysts say.
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As secretary of Defense, Robert Gates may be able to shape a bipartisan approach on Iraq and the war on terror.
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The Pentagon tries to deflect charges that there were not enough troops on the ground at the time of the Iraq invasion.
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The Pentagon issued sharp criticism Friday of a new congressionally commissioned report on the National Guard and reserves, calling "fundamentally flawed" its assertion that the U.S. military is not adequately prepared to respond to nuclear, biological and chemical attacks on the United States.
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The Pentagon has disputed parts of a progress report on Iraq drafted by the Government Accountability Office, and asked that some of the assessment's failing grades on key political and security benchmarks be changed before the final report is made public next week, a Defense spokesman said...
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Q: First the Schlesinger report, then the Fay report came out as well. Both of those reports at least somewhat critical of the secretary of defense and his office.