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Conservative Influencers Misrepresent Routine Revision To Defense Department Policy
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/10/conservative-inf...
Much Ado About Nothing: Recent Changes To Department Of Defense Directive 5240.01
Recent changes to this Defense Department directive do not reflect any change in policy and provide no new authority to deploy the military domestically or to use lethal force in such deployments.The post Much Ado About Nothing: Recent Changes to Department of Defense Directive 5240.01 appeared first on
https://www.justsecurity.org/104328/dod-directive-...
Pentagon Denies Troops Allowed To Use Force On U.S. Citizens During Election
The misinformation - spread online by former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among others - suggests that a Defense Department policy revision released in late September was timed to interfere with the Nov. 5 presidential election.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/24/p...
In Rare Move, Pentagon Denies Falsehood About Troops Allowed To Use Force During Election
The misinformation - spread online by former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among others - suggests that a Defense Department policy revision released in late September was timed to interfere with the Nov. 5 presidential election.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/24/p...
Watch Live: White House Holds Press Briefing Amid Israel War Plan Leak
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief the press Wednesday afternoon, days after an apparent U.S. intelligence breach related to Israel's plans to strike Iran was unveiled. The FBI opened an investigation Tuesday into the leak of classified U.S. intelligence documents containing Israels potential plans. The Defense Department is conducting a separate probe. The...
https://thehill.com/video-clips/4949012-us-intelli...
GOP Senator Demands Answers After Pentagon Finds Army Gave Taiwan Moldy Gear, Ammo From 1983
Sen. Joni Ernst sent a letter demanding answers after a government report found the Defense Department sent body armor covered in mildew and equipment from the 1980s to Taiwan.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ernst-letter-moldy-pentagon-shipments
Turn The Page On This Cold War Relic
On July 8th, the Defense Department announced that it was not going to terminate the Air Forces troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but would instead sink more taxpayer dollars into a weapons system estimated to cost $140.9 billion, an increase of 81% over an initial 2020 estimate of $77.7 billion. The Sentinel ICBMswith a […]
https://washingtonspectator.org/cold-war-relic/?ut...
Israeli Defense Ministers Pentagon Trip Postponed Amid Tensions Between Biden And Netanyahu
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was scheduled to travel to Washington, where he was set to meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, but the trip was postponed, according to the Defense Department. The two leaders have spoken regularly throughout the war and even more frequently in recent weeks as the conflict in […]
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3181501/yoav-gallant-pentagon-...
Defense Department: U.S. Personnel Injured In Rocket Attack On Iraqi Base
Several U.S. personnel have been injured in a suspected rocket attack on U.S. and coalition forces at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, a Defense Department spokesperson reported Monday, according to media outlets.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/08/05/personn...
U.S. Troops Injured In Iraq Base Rocket Attack, Pentagon Says, As Regional Tensions Soar
The Defense Department Monday confirmed that "several" U.S. personnel were injured Monday in what authorities said appeared to be a rocket attack against American and coalition forces at Al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/aug/5/us...