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    Biden Transition Updates
    Retired U.S. Army General Lloyd Austin speaks after being nominated to be secretary of defense by President-elect Joe Biden.
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    WATCH: Biden's Defense Pick, Lloyd Austin Confirmation Hearing Underway

    Jan 19, 2021
    Austin, a retired four-star Army general, served in the military for 40 years including as the first Black general to lead U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East.
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    National Security
    A U.S. Army soldier, seen at an unidentified location in Somalia earlier this year. The Trump administration announced Friday that most U.S. troops stationed in the country will be pulled out in early 2021.
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    Trump Orders The Withdrawal Of Most U.S. Forces From Somalia

    Dec 05, 2020
    "While a change in force posture, this action is not a change in U.S. policy," the Pentagon said Friday. The Trump administration will reassign most of the personnel elsewhere in East Africa.
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    Christopher Miller, seen at a Senate hearing in September, was named acting defense secretary on Monday as part of President Trump's shake-up of the national security community.
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    Shake-Up At Pentagon Puts Trump Loyalists Into Senior Roles

    Nov 11, 2020
    The firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper was the beginning of a series of changes to top-level positions at the Pentagon.
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    National Security
    U.S. troops participated in a March handover to the Iraqi army in Kirkuk, Iraq. The U.S. plans to draw down its troop numbers in the country this month.
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    U.S. Says It Will Cut Number Of Troops In Iraq By Nearly Half This Month

    Sep 09, 2020
    Gen. Frank McKenzie, who is responsible for U.S. forces in the Middle East, says the U.S. presence will drop from 5,200 to 3,000 troops in a move he says shows confidence in Iraqi army.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Defense Secretary Mark Esper, pictured last month, spoke with his Chinese counterpart Thursday amid strained relations between the two countries.
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    Pentagon Chief Esper Talks With Chinese Counterpart As Tensions Soar

    Aug 06, 2020
    Defense Secretary Mark Esper and his Chinese counterpart lectured one another in a 90-minute call as the highest level U.S. delegation in four decades plans a provocative visit to Taiwan.
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    National Security
    Defense Secretary Mark Esper, pictured earlier this month, announced a drawdown of U.S. troops in Germany on Wednesday.
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    Defense Secretary Esper Says U.S. Plans To Cut Troops In Germany By A Third

    Jul 29, 2020
    The Pentagon is promising what President Trump declared in June would happen: Troops are to be moved out of Germany, which the president accuses of stiffing NATO.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates

    Half Of States Where Pentagon Lifts Travel Ban Have Rising Coronavirus Infections

    Jun 19, 2020
    The Defense Department appears to be ignoring its own guidance by lifting travel restrictions for military personnel in 23 states with cases of COVID-19 on upward trajectory.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    A woman in a face mask walks on a deserted Ocean Drive last week in Miami Beach, Fla. War game simulation in the early 2000s foresaw an overwhelmed health care industry struggling to respond to unprecedented demand.
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    Years Before The Pandemic, War Games Predicted A 'Global Tempest'

    May 19, 2020
    In the early 2000s, war games about pandemics popped up. But participants say the outbreak threat couldn't compete with more visible national security concerns such as wars and terrorist attacks.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Three U.S. aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt (top left) USS Ronald Reagan (top center) and USS Nimitz (top right) participate in exercises with South Korean forces in 2017.
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    With Warship Coronavirus Cases Rising, Concerns Over Military Readiness

    Apr 09, 2020
    Three of the U.S. Navy's 11 aircraft carriers are reported to have sailors infected with the coronavirus. The Pentagon says readiness has not been affected, but more outbreaks are expected.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    FEMA's request for cadaver pouches follows warnings at the White House of coronavirus death tolls surpassing 100,000.
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    Pentagon Says FEMA Wants It To Find 100,000 Body Bags For Pandemic Fatalities

    Apr 02, 2020
    The request from FEMA to the Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency for cadaver pouches follows warnings at the White House of coronavirus death tolls surpassing 100,000.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct a training exercise in the Anapra area, in front of the wall that divides Sunland Park, N.M., from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
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    Amid Coronavirus Concerns Pentagon To Send Troops To U.S. Borders With Mexico, Canada

    Mar 26, 2020
    Troops will be sent to the northern and southern U.S. borders as the spread of the coronavirus grows. Last week, the Trump administration ordered partial closures of those borders.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis

    Coronavirus Diverts U.S. Aircraft Carrier From Mission In Western Pacific

    Mar 26, 2020
    The USS Theodore Roosevelt is the first U.S. warship with known cases of COVID-19. It's now heading to Guam to get all 5,000 crew members tested.
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    Shots - Health News
    President Trump speaks Saturday at the White House. Officials said a travel restriction would expand to the U.K. and Ireland beginning midnight Monday.
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    U.S. Adds U.K. And Ireland To Travel Ban; New Restrictions In Multiple Countries

    Mar 14, 2020
    Trump administration officials announced an expansion of a European travel ban to include the U.K. and Ireland. It came as governments around the world instituted new measures to halt the disease.
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    National Security
    Korean soldiers spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus on a shopping street in Seoul, South Korea, last week. U.S. military stationed in South Korea and Italy have been ordered not to travel because of the outbreak.
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    U.S. Forces In South Korea And Italy Are Told To Stay Put As Coronavirus Spreads

    Mar 09, 2020
    There are some 45,000 Americans working at U.S. military installations in South Korea and Italy. Both nations have major coronavirus outbreaks and travel to and from them is being restricted.
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    National
    Debris and rubble are seen at the site where an Iranian missile struck Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq's Anbar province in January. The U.S. has repeatedly raised its injury report from the strike; it now says 109 personnel suffered brain injuries.
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    109 U.S. Troops Suffered Brain Injuries In Iran Strike, Pentagon Says

    Feb 11, 2020
    Of the 109 who were injured, 76 have returned to duty. But 21 service members who were taken from Iraq to Germany for medical care have now been brought to the U.S.
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    National Security
    The Ain al-Asad air base, northwest of Baghdad, was one of the Iraqi bases targeted by Iranian missile strikes seen earlier this month.
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    Pentagon Increases U.S. Injury Toll From Iranian Attack Yet Again — To 64

    Jan 31, 2020
    The missile strikes in Iraq earlier this month did not kill any U.S. service members. But in the weeks following, the number of troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury has gone up repeatedly.
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    National
    The first panels of levee border wall are seen at a construction site along the U.S.-Mexico border last month in Donna, Texas. The new section, with 18-foot-tall steel bollards atop a concrete wall, will stretch approximately 8 miles.
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    Federal Judge Blocks Diversion Of Military Construction Money For Border Wall

    Dec 11, 2019
    A case brought by El Paso County, Texas, is similar to another won by the Sierra Club in California. The U.S. Supreme Court said wall construction can continue while the Trump administration appeals.
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    National Security
    Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer has been pushed out over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes. Spencer is seen here testifying during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in April.
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    Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer Forced Out Amid Controversy Over SEAL Case

    Nov 24, 2019
    The Pentagon says the Defense Secretary asked for Spencer's resignation after "losing trust and confidence in him." Spencer said President Trump deserved a Navy chief "who is aligned with his views."
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    Politics
    A budget staffer is to become the first White House official to testify about Ukraine aid in the impeachment inquiry at the Capitol on Saturday.
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    OMB Staffer Could Shed Light On Impeachment Inquiry Enigmas

    Nov 16, 2019
    Closed-door testimony from the only White House staffer cooperating with the probe could provide first-hand knowledge about details that remain hazy.
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    Business
    President Trump met with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as part of the American Technology Council in June 2017.
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    Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract

    Nov 14, 2019
    Amazon cited "unmistakable bias" as it prepares to challenge its loss in federal court. This starts a new chapter in the contentious battle over the biggest U.S. cloud-computing contract, called JEDI.
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    Technology
    In managing the contract, Microsoft will be responsible for storing massive amounts of sensitive military data and giving the U.S. military access to technologies like artificial intelligence.
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    Pentagon Awards $10 Billion Contract To Microsoft Over Front-Runner Amazon

    Oct 26, 2019
    "We're surprised about this conclusion. AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing," an Amazon Web Services spokesperson told NPR. The contract is for 10 years.
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    Book Reviews
    In this Oct. 23, 2018 file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks beside President Donald Trump, during a briefing with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington.
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    Top Aide To Former Defense Chief James Mattis Recounts What The General Has Not

    Oct 22, 2019
    Holding the Line is the tell-all many wished Mattis' own Call Sign Chaos had been. But for all of Guy Snodgrass' in-the-room accounts, there are some unverifiable elements and inaccuracies.
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    Asia
    Protesters hold placards reading 'No Abe!' earlier this month during a demonstration against Japan's removal of South Korea from a list of trusted trading partners in Seoul.
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    U.S. Criticizes South Korea After Seoul Scraps Intelligence-Sharing Pact With Tokyo

    Aug 30, 2019
    Washington is unhappy with the decision to quit a 2016 intelligence-sharing agreement. The dispute has its origins in Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula that ended after WWII.
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    National Security
    This photo released by the U.S. Defense Department shows the launch of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, Calif., on Sunday.
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    U.S. Tests Missile With A Range Prohibited By Now-Abandoned Treaty

    Aug 20, 2019
    The Pentagon says it tested a modified cruise missile that flew "more than 500 kilometers" — a distance prohibited under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty scrapped earlier this month.
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    Politics
    The U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team performs a flyover above the Lincoln Memorial during Independence Day celebrations on July 4 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C..
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    Pentagon: July 4 Flyovers, Tank Displays And Performances Cost $1.2 Million

    Jul 09, 2019
    Defense Department officials released their tally on Tuesday after mounting pressure to detail the costs for taxpayers, but they say personnel participation was part of the training budget.

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