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  • **FILE** Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (Associated Press)

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    The Army's chief of staff and a Marine veteran congressman clashed publicly Thursday in a long-simmering dispute over the service's battlefield intelligence processor.

  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (center) introduces South Korean President Park Geun-hye (left) to his senior staff members as they meet at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on April 12, 2013. (Associated Press)

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  • Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said fierce political resistance last year killed proposals such as base closures and increasing health care enrollment fees, which are included in the White House's $526.6 billion defense budget request. Mr. Hagel, however, noted times have changed, saying, "We are now in a different fiscal environment." (Associated Press)

    Congress skeptical of Obama's defense budget

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  • A South Korean soldier closes a military gate in Paju, north of Seoul, on Sunday, April 7, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

    Korea tensions delay missile test, Hill testimony

    Heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula have led the United States to postpone congressional testimony by the top U.S. military commander in South Korea and delay a U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile test from a West Coast base.

  • In this Nov.. 18, 2008 file image reviewed by the U.S. Military, guards escort a Guantanamo detainee carrying a book at the Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval open air common area at the U.S. Military Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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    The Pentagon is mulling a $150 million overhaul of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, including building a new dining hall, hospital and barracks for the guards.

  • Models of a mock North Korea Scud-B missile (center) and other South Korean missiles are displayed at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul on March 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

    U.S. missile defense plans will raise Korea tensions, China warns

    President Obama's decision to deploy additional missile interceptors at Alaska's Fort Greely reverses a decision he made in 2009 to scale back the number of active silos approved by President George W. Bush to blunt long-range nukes.

  • Commander of U.S. Strategic Command Gen. C. Robert Kehler, with President Obama, warns of a cascade of problems with sequestration. (Associated Press)

    Inside the Ring: Asia pivot threatened

    National security officials in the military and at the Pentagon are voicing growing worries that the second Obama administration is preparing to jettison the new policy focus on Asia known as the "pivot" or rebalancing.

  • ** FILE ** Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler (right), commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (Associated Press)

    U.S. nuclear commander: Sequester may affect readiness in 6 months

    The commander of the U.S. nuclear arsenal told lawmakers that the big across-the-board cuts to military spending mean that his forces might not be able to defend the United States in six months' time.

  • Illustration: Military.

    PETERS AND ROCHE: 'What do we want the military to do?'

    Two weeks ago, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to discuss sequestration and the impact it will have upon the armed forces. Amid the bleak details, he posed a critical question to the committee: "What do you want your military to do?"

  • The Navy has suspended the planned deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman Strike Group, commanded by Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney (above) because of the looming sequester budget cuts. The Truman recently completed a composite unit training exercise, which certified the strike group as ready to deploy, but it will be staying in Norfolk, Va., for the time being. (U.S. Navy)

    Pentagon aims ax to make a point with sequester cuts, uses worst-case scenarios to force deal

    The Obama administration is putting attention-getting Pentagon projects on the chopping block in a bid to pressure Congress into making a deal that avoids $46 billion in military budget cuts March 1, analysts and congressional officials say.

  • ** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on Jan. 10, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Panetta welcomes Obama's decision to halve troops in Afghanistan to 34,000

    Defense secretary Leon E. Panetta released a statement welcoming President Obama's decision to halve the number of U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan, from about 68,000 to 34,000 by this time next year.

  • House Speaker John A. Boehner says the looming sequesters and resulting budget cuts would be like "taking a meat ax to our government." Eager to buy time and avoid economic pain, President Obama urged Congress to pass targeted measures. (Associated Press)

    Panic rises as sequesters grow near

    Deadline legislating is once again the talk of Washington, with all sides now demanding an end to the automatic spending sequesters — even though just a few weeks ago many of them seemed to be bracing, or in some cases even welcoming, the $85 billion in cuts divided between defense and domestic needs.

  • The Capitol dome is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Four House Democrats hit Army’s battlefield intel system

    Four House Democrats are asking fellow party members to consider blocking funds for the Army's battlefield intelligence processor, citing the system's huge costs and failed operational tests.

  • Air Force officials testify about sexual assaults

    Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff, meets each week with a sexual assault prevention team at the Pentagon to combat sexual misconduct and abuse in the service.

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