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Top Democrat chastises parochial move on defense

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, has said the Army is trying to protect its own system, on which it has spent a decade developing at a long-term cost of $28 billion. (associated press)

Problems with Army’s battlefield intel system unresolved after two years

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to reporters about the Defense Department's sexual assault prevention and response program, Thursday, May 1, 2014, at the Pentagon. Hagel said sexual assaults are a threat to both women and men in uniform. And he says the Pentagon must do more to fight a culture that discourages victims from reporting assault. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Military reports sex assault up 50 percent: 5,061 reports filed in last fiscal year

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to reporters about the Defense Department's sexual assault prevention and response program, Thursday, May 1, 2014, at the Pentagon. Hagel said sexual assaults are a threat to both women and men in uniform. And he says the Pentagon must do more to fight a culture that discourages victims from reporting assault. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Military sex assault reports surge by 50 percent

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

US Army flight medic SPC. Daniel Miller, right, stands guard as United States Marines place a colleague wounded in an IED strike into a waiting medevac helicopter from the US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment at a "hot" landing zone in Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Military benefits survive defense cuts: ‘America has an obligation’ to service members

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

Concerns that the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin is exacerbating the widening destabilization of Ukraine has drawn a U.S. military presence to provide a show of force and contain the crisis. (Associated Press)

U.S., Russia bolster communications to prevent accidental confrontation

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Kerry: Russia ‘accelerating’ Ukraine crisis

By LARA JAKES and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Ukrainian government troops atop an armored personal carrier travel on a country road outside the town of Svyitohirsk near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Ukrainian authorities are undertaking a security operation to liberate the nearby city of Slovyansk, which is currently controlled by an armed pro-Russian insurgency. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Hagel asks Russians to declare their intentions in Ukraine

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin
(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Rosoboronexport, Russia’s main weapons exporter, gets a pass in new round of sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

**FILE** U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel talks to South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin on the phone from his aircraft after he finished the last stop in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, of his Asian Pacific trip April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Alex Wong, Pool)

Chuck Hagel can’t get Russian defense counterpart on phone

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to the media aboard a plane en route for his trip to Mexico City Wednesday, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Shannon Stapleton, Pool)

Russian jets enter Ukrainian airspace; Pentagon calls for nation to ‘deescalate the situation’

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, flanked by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, uses binocular as he watches military exercise near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on Sakhalin Island, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service, Pool)

Russian intelligence ship operating off U.S. East Coast: Pentagon

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

FILE - Col. Elspeth Ritchie, a doctor in the Office of the Army Surgeon General, discusses efforts to study and understand suicide among American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, in this May 29, 2008 file photo, during a news conference at the Pentagon. The Pentagon plans to release a report Friday April 25, 2014on military suicides. But those numbers differ a bit from the totals provided by the services because of complicated accounting changes in how the department counts suicides by reservists. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Active duty military suicides drop; Reserves go up

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston/File)

Inside the Ring: Critical Ukraine aid report

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The nearly five-year effort to free the only American soldier held captive in Afghanistan is scattered among numerous federal agencies with a loosely organized group of people working on it mostly part time, according to two members of Congress and military officials involved in the effort. An ever-shrinking U.S. military presence in Afghanistan has re-focused attention on efforts to bring home Bergdahl, who has been held by the Taliban since June 30, 2009. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

AP sources: Work to free US soldier disorganized

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 12, 2008 file photo shows a U.S. U2 reconnaissance plane taking off at the U.S. airbase in Osan, south of Seoul, South Korea. The U-2 spy plane outlasted the Cold War, outlived its successor and helped avert the world’s nuclear annihilation a half century ago. Defense cuts now threaten to knock the high-flying reconnaissance aircraft nicknamed the Dragon Lady out of the sky. The Air Force wants to gradually retire the fleet of 32 planes that can soar to an altitude of 70,000 feet, collect intelligence on North Korea and Russia and rapidly send the data to U.S. commanders, a crucial capability with an unpredictable Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang and an emboldened Vladimir Putin in Moscow. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, File)

Spy plane outlasts Cold War, but not defense cuts

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Wage stagnation and rising income inequality — two features of the current recovery that have puzzled both policymakers and analysts — may reflect not economic factors, but a vast change over the decades in the structure of the American family, in particular the decline in the number of married-parent families, according to a new study. (Associated Press)

Intelligence agency billing fraud proves costly

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A screenshot from 1989's 'The Abyss.' (Image: 20th Century Fox)

Drones from the deep: Pentagon develops ocean-floor attack robots

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

U.S. Air Force Capt. Brandon Lavalley and Maj. Derrick Vincent, both assigned to the 4th Fighter Squadron, fly toward the Nevada Test and Training Range on day three of Red Flag 12-2 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Coalition partners from South Korea and Saudi Arabia also participated in the joint training exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Ben Bloker)

Pentagon extends deployment of fighter jets to Poland amid Ukraine crisis

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

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Hagel pledges nonlethal military aid to Ukraine

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times