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...Budil’s remarks came at yesterday’s Department of Energy press conference, where energy secretary Jennifer Granholm touted the Biden administration’s ambitions for a fusion power plant in the next decade...
...The department is headed by the media shy Wang Huning, said to be an instrumental figure in the rise of General Secretary, and “dictator for life”, Xi Jinping....
...FEMA also is working with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Defense Logistics Agency to provide generators for critical infrastructure, including hospitals....
...In a historic move to break down gender barriers, the US military will open up all combat roles to women from next year, defence secretary Ashton Carter announced on Thursday....
...“The one thing on the Hill where I always found unanimity is on opposition to BRAC [base realignment and closure],” said Eric Fanning, undersecretary for the Air Force, this week....
...Other US officials include Vikram Singh, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, Derek Mitchell, US ambassador to Myanmar, and other senior officials from the state department, National Security...
...The subsequent scaling back of the army and parts of the marine corps could have big implications for the continuing US military presence in Europe, which Leon Panetta, defence secretary, said would “adapt...
...A museum to the Burma Defense Forces stands on the site. But most grand old buildings remain....
...In May, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen stated that “the activities of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) have been, and continue to be, a focus of the Treasury...
...Petrole, Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Labor....
...You need to first locate and then track a moving target at sea, in an environment without points of orientation,” says Eric Hagt, director of the China programme at the Center for Defense Information in...
...export make a rapid recovery”. 04.45 The US Department of Defense has released a transcript of a Q&A with Sec Robert Gates....
...When the army’s chief of staff, General Eric Shinseki, argued just before the war that many more troops would be necessary, he was rebuked. He retired a few months later....
...Climate Change – Secretary of State Clinton told delegates from 16 countries at a recent State Department conference on energy and climate that “The United States is fully engaged and determined to lead...
...Gen Eric Shinseki, then chief of staff of the army, was sidelined in 2003 by Donald Rumsfeld, the then defence secretary, for telling Congress that the US needed to deploy several hundred thousand soldiers...
...the intentions behind those and the way they’re going to be deployed,” David Sedney, the deputy assistant secretary of defence for East Asia , said at the Pentagon....
...army....
...Meanwhile, the return to the cabinet of Peter Mandelson – something of a mentor to the likes of Miliband, James Purnell (work and pensions secretary and one of Demon Eyes’ founders) and Andy Burnham (a former...
...Eugene Fidell, a military law attorney at Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell, said the court may have been swayed by a statement submitted by an army reservist involved in legal proceedings at Guantánamo...
...As defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld strongly resisted increasing the size of the army, convinced that he needed to transform the US military into a lighter, more agile force to meet the threats of the...
...The US army chief of staff on Wednesday said the Pentagon was planning for the possibility that it might have to keep current troop levels in Iraq until 2010....
...Mr Rumsfeld developed a reputation for dismissing the advice of his top commanders after he sidelined General Eric Shinseki, then chief of staff of the army, who told Congress that the Iraq invasion would...
...Defense departments and the CIA....
...Military officers point to the treatment of General Eric Shinseki, former chief of staff of the army....
...Underscoring the importance U.S. officials place on development of a Western-style media, Defense Secretary Donald H....
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