WASHINGTON — The US Army’s top general on Thursday defended the military against critics who contend the Defense Department can make deep cuts to planned spending without becoming less lethal.
Read MoreLast June, the Treasury Department announced hard-hitting new sanctions against an alleged Iranian front company, its main subsidiary, the subsidiary’s subsidiary, and then, for good measure, the subsidiary’s subsidiary’s two subsidiaries. All the firms, Treasury said, were secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
Read MoreIn May, the White House leaked word that it would start shifting drone operations from the shadows of the CIA to the relative sunlight of the Defense Department in an effort to be more transparent about the controversial targeted killing program. But six months later, the so-called migration of those operations has stalled, and it…
Read MoreAn imam once regarded as one of New York’s leading religious figures had a sudden fall from grace. So what does the story of one man’s attempt to adapt Islam to modern America tell us, asks Sune Engel Rasmussen.
Read MoreCorrina Robinson, a 25-year armed forces veteran who is running for Congress in South Dakota, won’t officially announce her candidacy until Veterans Day. But she’s already honing her pitch before local Democratic gatherings.
Read MoreASAD Q. AHMED 28 October 2013 Open India The introduction of print technology fundamentally changed the way one did scholarship in the madrasa. There were no manuscripts and margins, no reproduction and living engagement with a tradition of argumentation – one of a number of social, political, cultural, institutional, and technological factors explaining the current…
Read MoreThe recent paralysis in Washington underscores the profound risk of managing from crisis to crisis. But even though the shutdown and the debt-ceiling battle are barely behind us, there’s another crisis in the offing: The next round of automatic budget cuts mandated under sequestration, and the devastating economic consequences they will bring.
Read MoreSequestration may not be the worst-case scenario for Pentagon budgets — defense spending could drop even lower in the next decade, a new report argues.
Read MoreWASHINGTON — The top House Armed Services Committee Democrat on Thursday applauded a White House plan to shift America’s armed drone program from the CIA to the Pentagon.
Read MoreMuch is being said and written about the impact of the government closure and debt crisis on everything from workers’ salaries, to the availability of statistics that are critical for the management of businesses and farms, to the slowing of economic growth, to the weakening of America’s overall financial position at home and abroad. There…
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