Defense Issues Weekly, first edition – April 7th, 2013

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

China orders Su-35 jets, AL-31F117S engines, ultra-quiet subs This week, during a Moscow visit by China’s Defense Minister and 4th ranked member of the Central Military Commission, Gen. Chang Wanquan, it was announced that the Middle Kingdom will purchase

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The ‘Targeted-Killing Memos’

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

‘Think about the mothers!” That was the anguished cry of one of the protesters from Code Pink, the left-wing women’s group that four times interrupted John Brennan’s confirmation hearing last week. She was apparently referring to the mothers of such al-Qaeda leaders as Anwar

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Norman Schwarzkopf, RIP: Another Old Warrior Passes

From Conservative News Source- blog.heritage.org

General Norman Schwarzkopf, the man who led U.S. troops during the first Gulf War in 1991, died at 78 years old yesterday. Schwarzkopf was residing in Tampa, Florida, the location of his last military assignment: commander of United States Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base.

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Cuts to ranks may shock, but it’s happened before

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of service members and their families face uncertain times as wars end and the Pentagon heeds Congress’ demand to pare its ranks. The economy is weak and unemployment rates high.This sounds like today, but the scenario played out two decades

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DOJ still sitting on Zero Dark Thirty leak case

From Conservative News Source- hotair.com

Going nowhere? I have to say, I am thoroughly pumped about seeing the OBL-takedown flick Zero Dark Thirty; judging from the trailers and early reviews, it sounds like it’s a fair representation of the military and the goals of the entire operation. It’s not like

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Army probing day care centers worldwide

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army said Tuesday it will investigate hiring practices at all 283 of its child day care centers worldwide following the arrest of two Army employees accused of assaulting children at a Fort Myer, Va., day care center.

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Panetta: Troop pay may be on the table in future budget cuts

From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com

At a packed National Press Club lunch event Tuesday afternoon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave a talk full, as always, of ire at the unresolved specter of sequestration, but also spent time talking about how to implement further cuts to the Defense Department. Under the 2011 Budget Control Act, Panetta and

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Judge indicates Fort Hood suspect can keep beard

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff’s Department shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage. Nidal will be allowed to keep his beard during his military trial. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff’s Department, File)FORT

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Chuck Hagel, the antithesis to the Obama thesis of liberal Jews

From Conservative News Source- powerlineblog.com

(Paul Mirengoff) Last week, I asked: If Obama nominates Hagel, will that make Jews who worry about Iran but voted for Obama useful idiots? After all, Hagel voted against designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organization; urged President Bush to open “

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Republicans must block Kerry and Hagel

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

All media outlets are reporting that, because Susan Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration, John Kerry is virtually certain to be nominated Secretary of State and RINO ex-Senator Chuck Hagel is likely to be nominated Secretary of Defense; and that Republicans will not oppose

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Further defense cuts would gut the military

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

As the deadline to deal with defense spending sequestration nears, the opponents of a strong defense  are trying to lull the American people into a false sense of security by downplaying and vastly understating the threats posed to America’s security by Russia, China,

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Hawaii Sen. Daniel K. Inouye dies at 88

From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com

Hawaii Sen. Daniel K. Inouye dies at 88Published December 17, 2012FoxNews.comHawaii Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, the Senate’s most senior Democrat, died Monday from respiratory complications. He was 88.Inouye was a World War II veteran, a Medal of Honor recipient and Hawaii’s senior senator. He was hospitalized

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How Do We Know an ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban Would Not Have Stopped Adam Lanza? Because It Didn’t.

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

Although Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School has prompted renewed calls for reinstating the federal “assault weapon” ban, we know for a fact that such a law would not have stopped Adam Lanza or made his attack less deadly, because it didn’t. The rifle he

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Video: Duty in Djibouti

From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com

Welcome to another edition of duty in Djibouti. I’m SSgt Sara Weeks. U.S. Military and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members work together as they train on Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Identification. MC2 Cody Boyd also shows up how CJTF-HOA

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Bomb near government office kills 12 in Pakistan

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

Local residents examine a crater caused by Saturday night’s car bombing by Taliban militants close to the international airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Pakistani security forces cornered the last members of a group of Taliban militants who staged a deadly raid on an

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2 Kansas officers fatally shot outside market

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

Topeka police investigate at the scene of a shooting outside a grocery store in Topeka, Kan., Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Two Kansas police officers were shot outside the store on Sunday while responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle and died later at a hospital,

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At Sandy Hook Memorial, Obama Showcases the Magical Thinking of Gun Controllers

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

On Sunday night, speaking at a memorial service for the 26 victims of Adam Lanza’s horrifying shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, President Obama provided a window onto the magical thinking of people who think such appalling crimes

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N.Y. Guard’s ‘Fighting 69th’ returns to Fredericksburg

From Conservative News Source- humanevents.com

[FREDERICKSBURG, VA. Dec. 7, 20120] – New York Army National Guard Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry visit the historic battlefields of their regiment this weekend as part of the Civil War sesquicentennial commemoration Friday through Sunday at the National Military Park here. About 75 Soldiers from the battalion’s Company

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Rebuttal of POLITICO’s and liberal Republicans’ false claims

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

On December 12th, the leftist POLITICO magazine published a litany of blatant lies about defense spending and conservatism, a screed that gushed over pro-defense cuts Republicans such as Mick Mulvaney (RINO-SC). The author was Kate Nocera. The article opens with the false claim that: “

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Syrian Islamist rebels take Aleppo infantry base

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his machine gun toward Syrian Army positions during an assault on a military base in Tal Sheen, Syria, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012 (AP Photo / Manu Brabo)BEIRUT (AP) — An Islamist faction of Syrian rebels says its fighters have taken control of an infantry base in the

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Militants attack airport in NW Pakistan; 9 killed

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

A Pakistani baby girl injured in a rocked attack by militants, is treated at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012. Militants fired three rockets at an airport in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday night, killing

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Mandela hospitalization stretches into eighth day

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

FILE – This photo taken Monday Aug. 6, 2012 shows former South African president, Nelson Mandela, when he met with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, unseen, at his home in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela on Friday Dec 14 2012 entered the seventh day of

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Panetta: The Budget ‘Went to S—’ After I Left Congress

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks to the troops during a visit to Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) (CNSNews.com) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says when he served in Congress, lawmakers had the “courage to

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In Capitol Fashion

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

Aside from the hype over what Michelle Obama wore to the president’s inauguration in 2009, fashion and politics aren’t typically mentioned in the same sentence. So I decided to combine my interests in the two topics and take a look at some

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Mali gets new prime minister after military ouster

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The troubled nation of Mali swore in a new interim prime minister on Thursday, just days after soldiers behind this year’s military coup arrested his predecessor and forced his resignation.Diango Cissoko officially took office in the Malian capital

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SAfrica president: Nelson Mandela ‘recuperating’

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

Giant portraits of former African National Congress (ANC) presidents, including former South African President Nelson Mandela, right, overlook Bloemfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Dec 13, 2012. As South Africa’s governing party moves closer to picking its next leader, it will do so without the man widely

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Rights group accuses Pakistani military of abuse

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Amnesty International accused the Pakistani military on Thursday of carrying out widespread human rights abuses in the country’s northwest tribal region where the army is fighting a domestic Taliban insurgency.The military has regularly held people without charges

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Mandela’s fading moral compass worries S Africa

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

A mural depicts South African President Nelson Mandela on a hill in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela “has made progress” in getting better after contracting a lung infection, officials said Wednesday. A short statement issued by current

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Better Dictators than Elected Islamists

From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com

Who is worse: President Mohamed Morsi, the elected Islamist seeking to apply Islamic law in Egypt, or President Hosni Mubarak, the former dictator ousted for trying to start a dynasty? More broadly, will a liberal, democratic order more likely emerge under

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Mexico Shows That Tight Gun Control Laws Don’t Guarantee Compliance

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

Wearer-of-bad-rugs Bob Costas may have temporarily put gun control back in the headlines, but his advocacy hasn’t made firearms restrictions any less intrusive — or any more enforceable. Like fans of all sorts of restrictions, drugs especially, gun controllers tend to

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A Different Kind Of Christmas Poem

From Conservative News Source- conservativedailynews.com

May God bless our troops during this Christmas Season. You are not forgotten! This poem was written by LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN 30th Naval Construction Regiment Cindi is the Sr. Managing Editor of ConservativeNewsCentral.com and the Director of Graphics and Art for Anomalous Media.

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A.M. Links: Extinct Lizard Named After Obama, Mali Prime Minister Forced to Resign, NASA Gives Money to Private Companies, Californian Schools Owe Billions, HSBC to Pay Record Fine, Thousands of Kids in Michigan Missing School

From Conservative News Source- reason.com

An extinct lizard has been named after the president. Obamadon gracilis was one of many species to go extinct after an asteroid hit Earth 65 million years ago. ; Mali’s prime minister was forced to resign after being arrested by soldiers under the command of the army captain who

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Surprise: New Egyptian dictator declares martial law ahead of constitutional referendum

From Conservative News Source- hotair.com

Meet the new boss. Remember when the Egyptian army was supposed to be a check on the Brotherhood’s power, not an arm of it? As his proposed compromise faded and tensions mounted on Sunday, Mr. Morsi followed through on plans announced the day before to authorize the

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S Africa worried as Mandela remains in hospital

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

A giant portrait of former president Nelson Mandela adorns a cooling tower of a now defunct power station in Soweto, South Africa, Monday, Dec 10, 2012. Mandela underwent more unspecified medical tests in a military hospital in Pretoria, South Africa, as the public and journalists outside continued to ask the same, as

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South Africa at crossroads as Mandela hospitalized

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

A man readies his shop near a mural showing former South African President Nelson Mandela in the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. South Africa’s presidency says that Mandela, 94, was admitted to a hospital Saturday in the nation’s capital for tests. (AP Photos/Jon

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Syria’s civil war spills into Lebanon, 4 dead

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

Syrian women stand amid the ruins of their farm, destroyed by Syrian Army jets, in Al-Hafriyeh village, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. Syrian rebel commanders have elected a new 30-member leadership council and a chief of staff, a senior rebel said Saturday in a major step

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Egyptians protest against disputed constitution

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

Egyptian men stand near Arabic writing on a wall in Arabic that reads, “down with the leader’s rule, no to the Muslim Brotherhood,” in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. Egypt’s liberal opposition has called for more protests on Sunday after the

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Military: US service member killed in Afghanistan

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. military says one of its service members has been killed in eastern Afghanistan.The U.S. force says in a statement that the service member was killed Sunday but does not provide any further details. The military, which

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Syria Rebels Unite, Get New Leaders

From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com

Rebel commanders from across Syria have joined forces under a united command they hope will increase coordination between diverse fighting groups and streamline the pathway for arms essential to their struggle against President Bashar Assad.While many of the brigades involved in the fighting are decidedly Islamist in outlook

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Syrian rebels get new leadership in bid to unite

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

In this Friday, Dec. 07, 2012 photo, damaged buildings are seen along a desolate street on the front line after several weeks of intense battles between rebel fighters and troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Amarya district of Aleppo, Syria

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Egypt: military warns of ‘disastrous consequences’

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

An Egyptian passes riot policemen guarding a gate of the presidential palace under a banner with a defaced picture of president Mohammed Morsi and Arabic that reads “the people want to bring down the regime,” at the protests site,

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Syrian rebels create new unified military command

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

This image from amateur video AP obtained from Ugarit News has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting and shows a rebel firing a weapon around a corner at Syrian government forces in Damascus, Syria Friday Dec. 7, 2012. Fighting around the Syrian capital has

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China’s Xi leads campaign to cut pomp

From Conservative News Source- cnsnews.com

FILE – In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 file photo, China’s newly appointed leader Xi Jinping gestures as he attends a meeting with foreign experts at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. New communist leader Xi is on a mission to soften the image of Chinese officialdom, winning kudos for

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Muslim pleads guilty to misunderstanding Islam, plotting jihad attack against Seattle military recruitment center

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Yet another Muslim falls prey to the all too prevalent tendency to misunderstand the Religion of…

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Egypt’s Proposed Constitution: Creating an Islamist, Sharia State

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By Barry Rubin On November 30, a Constituent Assembly consisting almost 100 percent of Islamists voted to approve the…

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