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...Michael Sheehan, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that for the war against al-Qaida, the Taliban and other terrorist groups, the 2001 Authorization for...
...D-Mich., told Air Force officials at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday that "while under our...the Air Force's chief of staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he and Air Force Secretary Michael Donley...
...S. total, which would be roughly 6,500."We have to send a message of commitment," Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee.U.S. and NATO leaders said last month that they may keep between 8,000 and 12,000 troops in Afghanistan...
...Mark Begich, D-Alaska and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, secured language earlier in the year that...with the Air Force's plans nationwide, the Senate Armed Services Committee version of the bill proposes a National Commission...
...of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world," Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee.That failed to placate Republicans on the panel. In one fierce exchange, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz...
...service members," the Post reported.Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz was pulled before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday to answer senators' questions. Schwartz said residual remains now are buried at sea, according...
...Adm. Michael G. Mullen, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee recently, the Haqqani network "acts as a veritable arm" of the ISI.The U.S. campaign against global...
...coming years as the federal government moves ahead with reducing the deficit.Begich, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he will make sure Alaska is treated fairly, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly...
...House-Senate conference committee. News-Miner calls to the office of Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, were not returned. Levin, a Michigan Democrat, submitted the final version of the bill, which passed...
...patients was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In 2006, Robert Gates won speedy and unanimous approval from the Senate Armed Services Committee to be secretary of defense. New York became the first city in the nation to ban artery-clogging trans fats...