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Upstate Business Journal
April 21, 2018
... to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the military establishment, and thereby to strengthen the national security of the United States.” Similarly, a handbook sets the purpose, culture, expectations, and efficiencies of a civilian organization. Welcome Orientation. The first-day experience sets the tone.
The Mercury
April 21, 2018
The media parroted statements made by high-ranking military officials in the military establishment. Many in the military believed the attack on Syrian facilities was dubious. Why? Because Syria is a shattered nation. Most of its cities and towns are destroyed or damaged. Most of the Syrian carnage lays atÃâà...
Asia Times
April 20, 2018
While the world press paid little attention, certainly China's military establishment took careful note. Since last year, China has conducted ... The Vinson visit was aimed at letting China know the United States would oppose China's efforts to take control of the South China Sea. The South China Sea area isÃâà...
HuffPost
April 13, 2018
The United States has taken Thucydides's famed Melian Dialogue and turned it inside out. Centuries before Augustine, the great Athenian historian wrote, “The strong do what they will, while the weak suffer what they must.” Strength confers choice; weakness restricts it. That's the way the world works, so atÃâà...
Truthdig
April 11, 2018
Here, as I see it, are the principles — seven in all — that define the prevailing military system of the United States. First, we ... He certainly doesn't need to check with the American people. .... It's by no means impertinent to wonder about the relevance of the current military establishment to these challenges.
The Nation.
April 10, 2018
Let me suggest that the problem lies with the present-day American military system, the principles to which the nation adheres in raising, organizing, supporting, and employing its armed .... It's by no means impertinent to wonder about the relevance of the current military establishment to these challenges.
Atlantic Council (blog)
April 4, 2018
“Not to leave” is the position of the United States Department of Defense. ... These motives are not the same as those held by adversaries and enemies of the United States, even if the bottom “leave” line is the same for all. ... But of greater importance to the US military establishment is what comes next.
Foreign Policy In Focus
April 4, 2018
Between these two theaters of contention lies the ever-turbulent Greater Middle East, with the United States and its two crucial allies there, Israel and Saudi .... In relatively swift fashion, American military leaders have followed up their claim that the U.S. is in a new long war by sketching the outlines of aÃâà...
The Nation
April 1, 2018
It happens in Indian-held Kashmir and other areas where insurgency movements are ongoing, in fact even in the United States residents who live near the ... Criticising the military establishment's role in politics and pointing out the flaws in their policy is a different thing, but to accuse one's own soldiers whoÃâà...
GovExec.com
March 29, 2018
United States (in which I am counsel of record to the Petitioners), it would not only open the door to far more military officers serving simultaneously in senior ... the dual-officeholding ban “assure[s] civilian preeminence in government” by “prevent[ing] the military establishment from insinuating itself into the civil branch ofÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 29, 2018
Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. .... As a federal appeals court concluded in 1975, the dual-officeholding ban “assure[s] civilian preeminence in government” by “prevent[ing] the military establishment from insinuating itself into the civilÃâà...
TBO.com
March 21, 2018
The public's willingness to finance a large military establishment has subsequently been linked to the perception that these expenditures perform a positive overall economic ... As a result, the United States was able to quickly capture world markets and focus world production and trade around itself.
The American Conservative
March 11, 2018
Typically they will purport to demonstrate catastrophic danger or damage to the United States if Congress ends a use of the United States Armed Forces (USAF) in a designated conflict. Leaks like these will tend to fall into the hands of favored columnists like David Ignatius of The Washington Post or TomÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 6, 2018
Warrant Officer Class One Craig Egan of the Australian Defense Force deals easily with American noncommissioned officers -- they speak the same ... Australian and American NCOs are the backbones of their respective services. ... The United States has a military establishment of around 3 million.
Daily Times
March 1, 2018
Post Islamic revolution Iran leaders have frequently referred to Israel as the 'Little Satan' accompanying the 'Great Satan,' the United States. It's a widely known fact that Iran poses the most ... but it is making systematic preparations to be able to do so. Iran now has a massive military establishment in Syria.
ThinkProgress
March 1, 2018
The Russians have long claimed that they needed to upgrade their nuclear capabilities after the United States exited the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in ... This gap is what Putin is trying to test – if Trump ignores it, the Russian military establishment will then figure that its efforts are for domestic consumption.
teleSUR English
February 28, 2018
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten blasted the idea: "Teachers don't want to be armed, we want to teach," she said. ... Former CIA agent John Kiriakou, however, told teleSUR that the gun problem in the United States is not the result of unarmed teachers: "It is the result of freelyÃâà...
UNC Chapell Hill
February 28, 2018
As far back as 2003 Dana Priest, a journalist for the Washington Post, wrote a book entitled The Mission which asserted that American diplomacy was being outgunned by the military and that the United States was becoming increasingly dependent on the military to manage its role in world affairs. She claimed that "onÃâà...
WWL
February 27, 2018
Lawmakers in the United States have placed Huawei and another Chinese manufacturer, ZTE, in the crosshairs over their reputed ties to the Chinese intelligence and military establishment. U.S. officials' concern is that their products could be conduits for Chinese espionage, both on a targeted and a grandÃâà...
The Week Magazine
February 27, 2018
One cannot help but wonder if this parade is all about Trump, rather than all about the military and American public. ... But in cautioning against a large military establishment or military-industrial complex, Eisenhower was warning America against the propensity to place one's faith and security in arms,Ãâà...
Military Times
February 14, 2018
Yet with each new war in which the United States became embroiled, the white American establishment tended to forget the contribution made by black servicemen in ..... The military establishment considered the 92nd, which comprised less than 2 percent of all black Americans in the Army, a failure.
Reason
February 11, 2018
This tradition, with its emphasis upon civilian against military authority, is accepted as an essential element of American freedom and democracy. Though involved in numerous wars, the United States has avoided becoming a militaristic nation [remember, this was written in 1956.], and the American people,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 8, 2018
In that time, the United States military has evolved from a small, irregular force of wartime volunteers to a sprawling permanent establishment, with the ... Vice President Mike Pence followed the president's lead last month in a speech before American troops in Jordan, on the border with Syria, attackingÃâà...
Task & Purpose
December 31, 1999
Obviously, not every Pentagon reporter is like this (see: our own Jeff Schogol, or Military Times' Tara Copp), but the message is clear: Journalists who are 1) unfamiliar with the goings-on of the U.S. military establishment and 2) totally wired by the prospect of chronicling A War are an OPSEC trainwreck.
InsideSources
December 31, 1999
Trump has accused the Chinese of stealing American technology while dumping products on the United States at low prices made possible by vastly ... U.S. and South Korean military leaders have emphasized, however, the need for tightening bonds while the South strengthens its military establishment.
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has denied reports that its forces were leaving the Incirlik base in Turkey and the Al Udeid base in ... US spokesperson for Al Udeid who said that the airbase will undergo projects regarding infrastructure development throughout the military establishment.
Vox
December 31, 1999
“The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit,” he ... government, although democratically elected, does not have the power to control or influence the far-reaching and powerful military establishment.
The American Interest
December 31, 1999
The religious parties routinely held protest demonstrations against the United States and its partners and in support of the Taliban. ... of them armed with British-era .303 rifles, others with even older weapons—crossing into Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban against American and NATO forces.
