U.S. builds secret drone base for Yemen attacks
By Philip Ewing on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 ![]()
Does a new secret airbase indicate that the locus of terrorism has fully shifted? If so, what are American troops still doing in Afghanistan?
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Does a new secret airbase indicate that the locus of terrorism has fully shifted? If so, what are American troops still doing in Afghanistan?
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The Pentagon announces the officials and aircraft that it plans to send to this year’s air show.
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Commanders want to know more than whether a batch of new network equipment works — they want to know how real soldiers actually use it in the field.
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The Marines’ new rifle can’t spit lead like their old light machine gun, but it’s so accurate it may not need to. Or so the brass hopes.
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A congressman has reportedly broached the idea that Iraq repay the U.S. for some of the funds spent on aid and reconstruction after the war. Is it an idea worth pursuing?
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Built to kill tanks in land warfare, the British Army’s Apache gunships proved adept against naval targets off Libya.
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The Pentagon’s test and evaluation teams aren’t the cause of setbacks in big weapons programs, a report concludes. The problems they find are.
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Can the vast Internet real estate taken up by DoD and the intelligence community survive the White House’s planned purge of official websites?
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The Marines’ top weapons developer says he wants to hurry up with determining the best strategy to replace its benighted Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.
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As Washington looks forward to a world of harder choices about budgets and military reach, should it keep its missile defense commitments to Europe?
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Three of America’s defense titans are angling to build the military’s next generation of air to ground missiles, with billions of dollars on the line.
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Libyan strongman Moammar Qaddafi has thanked U.S. House lawmakers who voted to require the president “explain” the American role in the Libyan intervention.
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The week that was. The links that were.
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As the Army experiments with using smartphones or tablet computers on the battlefield, other troops, including Marine aviators, are blazing their own tech trails.