The administration has authorized the American command to kill or capture Iranian agents considered to be menacing.
Stanley McChrystal takes the blame for a Rolling Stone article, and the unflattering comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration, that ended his Afghan command and army career.
But the administration will recommend changes to the nuclear command structure that would make accidental launches more unlikely, officials said.
But he will also insist that they should be under American command, and one senior administration official says the total number of troops will not rise.
The question for the Bush administration is how far up the chain of command the scandal will reach.
Because the Commander of the U.S. Central Command will have a key role in administration in Iraq, many have thought that our plans for Iraq are based on what the Allies did in Germany after World War II.
In light of this constitutional command, Chief Justice John Roberts said the administration was making an unprecedented bid to invoke Supreme Court jurisdiction, given that it and Ms. Windsor both believed lower courts were correct in striking down the law.
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Washington (CNN) -- Cyberspace will not be militarized by the United States to protect the country from attacks on civilian computer networks, according to the Obama administration's nominee to head the new U.S. Cyber Command.
Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. Cyber Command, a part of the military, acknowledged that the Obama administration is debating internally how to proceed when U.S. companies are under cyberattack.
Referring to the 11, 343 deported, the MPs' declaration said "we denounce this criminal act, undertaken by Hitler's command, and express our regrets for the fact that the local Bulgarian administration had not been in a position to stop this act".
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The practical effect of such a policy direction is to eschew the steps called for by the Strategic Posture Commission and, indeed, the recommendations of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the commander of Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton and the director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Thomas D'Agostino.
But in the electrified political atmosphere of an election year, the Bush administration's opponents will want to see the buck stop far higher up the chain of command.
The Bush Administration has created the Department of Homeland Security, while the Defense Department has organized a new Northern Command in which for the first time a combatant commander has the entire continental United States within his area of responsibility.
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The Bush administration had hoped the treaty could be modified in time to allow it to begin constructing silos and a testing command centre in Alaska next spring.
The senior administration official is correct, but the -- what has already happened and is occurring now is the transfer of command and control over the no-fly zone to NATO.
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