Sources expressed concern about such behavior should Hagel be nominated for the defense post.
Analyst Gerald Steinberg says this crisis may bring down the current defense minister, Amir Peretz, a rising star in the Labor Party who was given the defense post despite a lack of experience.
With Democrats and some newspaper editorials calling for his resignation -- and some Republicans privately questioning whether he can continue in the top defense post -- Rumsfeld admitted he could have done better.
Insofar as this odious chapter in Mr. Halperin's past bears directly on the three aspects of his candidacy that will likely determine whether he is deemed suitable for such a highly sensitive Defense Department post -- his judgment, his policy predilections and his integrity and trustworthiness -- the Committee must insist upon the truth, and nothing but the truth, about the Halperin-Agee connection.
The defense contractor will likely post lower revenues in Q4 due to reduced contract volume and its winding down of certain defense programs like the F-22.
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So know that I leave this post grateful for everything our defense civilians do for our military and our national security.
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The Center for Security Policy expects that these debates can -- and must -- serve as a long-overdue focus for national consideration of the direction of U.S. foreign and defense policy in the post-Cold War World.
Among the handful of big military contractors that survived the post-Cold War consolidation of the defense sector, none has performed better than General Dynamics.
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One has to wonder what possessed Prime Minister Obuchi Keizo to name him to such a potentially sensitive post as parliamentary vice minister of the Defense Agency.
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Psychologist Richard Samuels testified for the defense that Arias suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative amnesia, which explained why she couldn't recall much from the day of the killing.
Drawing on his vast experience with defense, intelligence and information technologies, the Admiral was given a post at one of the most creative and productive organizations in the federal government, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
According to The Washington Post, on Monday she hired a prominent defense lawyer, Robert F.
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According to the Huffington Post, Cote has argued that cuts in the defense budget could come from reducing the pay of overseas troops.
We know new defense minister el-Sisi from his previous post, and we look forward to continuing to work with him now.
Russia, which has more than a million soldiers under arms, has been increasing its defense budget from the lows of the immediate post-Soviet era.
The Americans got all they could handle from Australia, which led at halftime, 47-43, after dominating the post and exploiting gaps in Team USA's perimeter defense.
During a forceful statement to the judge Monday, Ms. Hill explained she had always meant to eventually pay the taxes but was unable to during a period of time when she dropped out of the music business, echoing a defense she wrote last year in a long post online.
After a post-graduate school stint reviewing budgets at the Department of Defense, he returned to the family business.
Guerreiro, who has impressed for Poland in this tournament, caused more problems for the Croatia defense in the 68th minute when his far-post cross picked out Marek Saganowski, but the striker's downward header was well held by Runje.
His mishit shot hit the post and by halftime Messi had equalized after hesitation in the Real defense.
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In 1991, NATO defense ministers approved a radical shakeup of its forces in post-cold war Europe, including creation of a Rapid Reaction Force.
During the Clinton administration, then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen declined to give her a top Pentagon post in the face of intense controversy about her views.
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However, in order to make a copy of the blog post wholesale, the web scraper would have to rely on a defense to infringement, such as fair use.
The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
Lexington Institute COO and Forbes contributor Loren Thompson argues in this post that there is no sizable constituency in the political system for big defense cuts, and that both parties appear to be betting on averting sequestration mandates.
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The U.S. broke through in the 19th minute, as Rapinoe sent a corner kick toward the far post, and Wambach did what she does best: rise above the defense to get her forehead on the ball, sending it over French goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi, who inexplicably left her line.
Finally, in a recent post on his blog, Sam Liles, an associate professor at the National Defense University, takes cyber strategists to task for focusing too much on the technological infrastructure of cyberspace and not enough on the social and cognitive aspects.
The post-Cold War benchmark of three percent of GDP constitutes a floor beneath which defense spending should not be allowed to sink.
Meanwhile Wednesday, Britain's defense ministry announced that Admiral Sir Michael Boyce is to retire from the post of Chief of Defence Staff next week.
On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the Palestinians would be allowed to vote at post offices, a method they have used in the past.
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