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Mission Manager Brian Stites with Ratheon, flies a hobbyist's AR Drone 2.0 to demonstrate the company's electronic armor, or anti-tamper system software they have developed to protect against hacking into military systems, during the 2014 Association of the United States Army's Annual Meeting and Exposition held at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 14, 2014. The software prevents tampering, and injection of malware into man and unmanned avionics and maritime, weapon and defense systems. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Pentagon deploys Electronic Armor to prevent enemies from hacking and crashing

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at a new conference at the Tolemaida military base in Melgar, Colombia, Oct. 10, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hagel: Climate change will challenge U.S. military

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Medical staff wearing protective clothing arrives at the apartment building of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Officials said a nurse and a nursing assistant have been placed under observation for Ebola in a Madrid hospital where a colleague became infected after working with two Spanish missionary priests who contracted the disease in West Africa and later died at the center. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

U.S. military planes arrive at epicenter of Ebola

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Ciaran Giles - Associated Press

Sybill Mikell has worked making mess trays and other products produced by Lighthouse for the Blind for decades, but shes facing the loss of her job because of a change in government procurement rules. Photo credit: Mary Lou Uttermohlen

Exclusive: Feds take jobs from disabled Americans, send them to Central Asia

By Jim McElhatton and Quin Hillyer - The Washington Times

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the Islamic State group is shown in Iraq's Anbar Province. Mass graves have turned up in Iraq's Anbar province that may contain up to 220 victims of the Islamic State group.
(AP Photo via militant website, File) — FILE

Islamic State shifts from northern Iraq to Anbar province in west

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Yazidi Rescue Mission Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

PIR: Remembering the Yazidis under siege

By Hadi Pir

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a formation of U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq, as part of U.S. led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their de facto capital, fearing further raids, activists said. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

Pentagon: Most of ISIS’ oil refineries in Syria have been destroyed

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Local workers look on as a team or U.S. Navy engineers prepares the ground for a 25-beds medical facility they are building next to the airport in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday Sept. 27, 2014. Six months into the world's worst-ever Ebola outbreak, and the first to happen in an unprepared West Africa, the gap between what has been sent by other countries and private groups and what is desperately needed is huge. Even as countries try to marshal more resources to close the gap, those needs threaten to become much greater, and possibly even insurmountable. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

WILLIAMS: Ebola crisis is a test case for enlightened self-interest

By Armstrong Williams

M18A1 Claymore mine. (Wikimedia Commons)

Obama bans landmine use against military leaders’ advice

By Adam Kredo — The Washington Free Beacon

FILE- In this file image provided by the U.S. Navy on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush. Arab countries&#8217; prominent role in initial airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria shatters the notion of what a typical American-led military operation looks like and won the Mideast allies praise from U.S. President Barack Obama for their willingness to stand &#8220;shoulder-to-shoulder" with the United States. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Garst, File)

U.S.’s newest airstrikes target Syrian oil fields

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Ciampa took bribes to help steal millions of dollars' worth of fuel meant to support U.S. military operations in Afghanistan." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Sergeant pleads guilty to selling U.S. Army fuel in Afghanistan

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Vehicles are stopped by security personal as they enter a gate Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, to Camp Edwards, Mass., on Cape Cod. Police and military officials were searching Monday for three soldiers from the Afghanistan National Army who went missing Saturday during a training exercise at the base. The Afghan soldiers had been participating in a U.S. Central Command Regional Cooperation training exercise at Joint Base Cape Cod, at Camp Edwards, U.S. military officials said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Officials locate 3 Afghan soldiers missing after trip to Cape Cod mall

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Inside the Ring: CIA goes to war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Free Syrian Army fighter aiming his weapon during a battle with Islamic State militants in Aleppo, Syria. Members of the Islamic State group have been marching in the northern province of Aleppo capturing areas under the control of the mainstream Free Syrian Army. Islamic State fighters have overrun nearly a dozen towns and villages in Aleppo province last week crushing what little resistance they have encountered. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Pentagon: U.S.-trained Syrian rebels unlikely to reach battlefield before mid-2015

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

US Secretary of State John Kerry leaves after a family photo at the conference intended to come up with an international strategy against Islamic State extremists in Paris, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. As diplomats from around the world sought a global strategy to fight Islamic State extremists, Iran ruled out working with any international coalition, saying it had rejected American requests for cooperation against the militants. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski; Pool)

Tiny Qatar plays outsize role in US war strategy

By ROBERT BURNS and ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby arrives for a briefing at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. The Pentagon says the leader of the Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group was the target of U.S. military airstrikes that struck an encampment and a vehicle Monday night. Kirby said the results of the strike are being assessed and he can't confirm if Somali Ahmed Abdi Godane, the rebel leader, was hit. He says the strike against Godane was conducted by special operations forces with manned and unmanned aircraft firing hellfire missiles and precision-guided munitions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. to train 5,000 Syrian rebels to fight militants

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

American journalist James Foley was killed by the Islamic State group Aug. 19, 2014. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon downplays role in destroying Islamic State: ‘It’s about defeating its ideology’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration on failures in the Veterans Administration system of care by M. Ryder/ Tribune Content Agency

DAVIS: Broken promises to our veterans

By Dennis Davis

Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, is hammering out a legislative proposal to authorize U.S. military strikes on Islamic State targets within Syria. (associated press)

Pressure on Obama to select, implement Islamic State plan

By Jacqueline Klimas and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times