The Pentagon

Assad's last stand

2012-12-07 00:00:00

Syria's 20-month-long civil war appears to be approaching a tipping point as fighting around Damascus intensifies amid signs that President Bashar Assad's grip on power may be weakening. As the final phase in the long conflict apparently draws nearer, the...

Marine brig officials grilled about Bradley Manning's jailing

2012-12-06 16:36:12

former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a psychiatrist determined that wasn't necessary, as lawyers for the soldier at the center of the WikiLeaks case...

Manning held improperly in brig, Marine official testifies

2012-12-05 19:04:36

An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months' confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., the Marines'...

Sequestration cuts would embolden Iran to build the bomb

2012-12-10 11:15:00

While many have persuasively argued that the fiscal cliff defense cuts would hurt innovation and slow our economic recovery, few offer concrete examples of how these catastrophic cuts would endanger our national security. Iran's drive to acquire nuclear...

Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says

2012-12-04 04:31:50

Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges. Moreover, the National Academy of Science reported, lead from ammunition...

Bradley Manning deserves to be set free

2012-11-29 09:00:00

Finally, the trial of the century made the front page of The Sun ("Accused WikiLeaker to ask for dismissal," Nov. 26). I will join others outside the main gate to Fort Meade to show support for the whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning during his latest...

Curtis B. Reiber, Army officer

2012-11-28 14:16:00

Curtis B. Reiber, an Army intelligence officer whose career spanned three decades, died Nov. 20 of a stroke at Saint Agnes Hospital. He was 77. The son of a DuPont Co. worker and a homemaker, Curtis Brooks Reiber was born in Centre Hall, Pa., and...

Defense bill includes provision for space contractors

2012-12-23 08:54:00

A little-noticed provision in a massive, $633 billion military spending bill approved by Congress last week will end a decade-old battle over whether to ease export restrictions on U.S. satellite technology. If signed by President Barack Obama, the...

Judge accepts terms of Manning's proposed plea

2012-11-29 08:00:00

A military judge on Thursday accepted the terms under which an Army private would plead guilty to seven charges for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks. Col. Denise Lind ruled during the third day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc....

On stand, Manning admits tying bedsheet into noose

2012-11-30 16:02:05

Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial

2012-11-25 13:30:00

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. By...

Hunting for savings in military spending

2012-11-24 10:59:49

A pair of reports critical of military spending — on items as diverse as health care and dried meat — are part of the latest round of scrutiny of the Defense Department's budget as the fiscal cliff approaches. The nonpartisan Congressional...

On Wednesday, President Obama signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, a $633-billion blueprint for Pentagon spending.

2013-01-04 19:20:20

Less than two miles from the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the Residence Inn Arlington Pentagon City hotel provides in-room full kitchens, and is also steps away from the underground public transit system allowing easy access to many of the capital's top attractions.

2012-12-19 15:19:00

The Pentagon requested that the National Intelligence Estimate include cyber-espionage for the first time.

2012-12-06 16:40:54