The case of the former defense minister, Akis Tsochatzopoulos, has raised emotional issues in a political culture widely seen as rife with corruption.

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Greek Official’s Corruption Case Hits Hard

In June 1986, after a year-long investigation, then-President Ronald Reagan’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management — later known as the Packard Commission — filed a final report. It was established to investigate Pentagon procurement after an enormous increase in defense spending and the discovery of the infamous $435 hammer and $600 toilet seat. The panel was chaired by David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co., and deputy defense secretary in the Nixon administration. Read full article > >

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Defense procurement problems won’t go away

Assailants attacked Egyptian protesters gathered outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo on Wednesday to call for an end to military rule.

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5 Egyptian Protesters Said to Be Killed in Cairo

A Republican conference call on Thursday, titled “President Obama’s Failed Foreign Policy,” got me to thinking: How can voters hear an honest debate on national security and foreign policy issues in the presidential campaign when candidates or their supporters provide false or misleading information? Read full article > >

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Sorting through the defense distortions

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said there is no question that the United States is safer with Osama bin Laden, the architect of al Qaeda, dead, though he said there is no way to completely destroy the network.

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Panetta: No ‘silver bullet’ for al Qaeda

As the salacious details of the U.S. Secret Service sex scandal have cast an intensely private organization into the spotlight, the man at the helm of the 7,000-member federal agency has so far avoided issuing a public defense for the breakdown in personal conduct of a dozen of his men. Read full article > >

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Scandal tests Secret Service director for a second time

Defense argued prosecutors weren’t cooperative.

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Judge Won’t Drop Manning Charges

The 17-member panel will focus on the Stand Your Ground measure, which has been cited as a defense in the shooting of the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.

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Florida Gun Law Task Force Is Named

George Zimmerman’s defense team requested that the judge assigned to the Trayvon Martin case be removed because her husband works with a CNN legal analyst.

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Zimmerman’s lawyer asks to have judge removed

A defense attorney says a man facing murder and hate crime charges in a Tulsa shooting spree that killed three people and terrorized the city’s black community wasn’t motivated by race.

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Attorney: Tulsa Suspect Not Motivated by Race

Prototype contact lenses designed to offer troops enhanced vision are ordered by the US Department of Defense’s research lab.

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Pentagon buys dual-focus contacts

Prototype contact lenses designed to offer troops enhanced vision are ordered by the US Department of Defense’s research lab.

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Pentagon buys dual-focus contacts

A national push by the National Rifle Association has led to the rapid spread of expanded self-defense laws in states across the country.

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N.R.A. Campaign Leads to Expanded Self-Defense Laws

A telltale sign that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara no longer believed in the Vietnam War came not from anything he said publicly, but how he said it. Harold Brown, who served under McNamara at the Pentagon as director of defense research and engineering and later as secretary of the Air Force, came to recognize the mannerisms McNamara would display when voicing public support for policies with which he privately disagreed. Read full article > >

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Defense book takes a deeper look at Robert McNamara

A long-term security partnership and the presence of U.S. forces beyond the end of 2014 will be needed to ensure Afghanistan’s stability and “give the right messages” to both its population and its enemies, Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak said Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Afghan officials stress need for U.S. security presence beyond 2014 withdrawal