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• China skeptical of expanded US role in the Pacific

  that the U.S. will set aside $100 million to expand its military exercises in the region.Just finishing his third month as Pentagon Chief, Hagel used the speech to introduce himself on a more personal level to the audience. For many he is a familiar face.   Read more »

• Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

  -- The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.New details on the administration's budget request emerged on Tuesday and underscored the contradiction   Read more »

• LI home to a dozen U.S. Army generals

  firsthand, but also can handle budgets and planning."At a Friday gathering that drew five generals from Long Island into Rossi's Pentagon office, Maj. Gen. Patrick M. Higgins, a special forces soldier from East Meadow , said he is not surprised by the Island's   Read more »

• Cyr: North Korea's behavior reminiscent of Cold War

  at the idle Kaesong industrial park in North Korea will be withdrawn. Pyongyang terminated cooperation early this month. The Pentagon is expanding anti-ballistic missile defenses on the U.S. West Coast, and the Lockheed Martin THAAD (Terminal High Altitude   Read more »

• Jeffrey: Should the United States intervene in Syria?

  readiness and prepare for a number of scenarios" relating to the conflict in neighboring Syria. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Pentagon has drawn up plans to possibly expand the force significantly.And yet the chances are, in today's political environment,   Read more »

Around the web

• One Year Since Seeking Asylum from Ecuador, Julian Assange Demands Obama Drop Investigation into WikiLeaks

  for the Press, he detailed how President Richard Nixon had setup a grand jury to try and indict Neil Sheehan for publishing the Pentagon Papers. Now, according to Goodale, Obama is trying to succeed where Nixon failed by making the “news gathering entities 28 m ago from Firedoglake Read more »

• Mikulski backs oversight of military academies

  with the Pentagon's top brass, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday to keep commanders involved in deciding whether to prosecute sexual assault cases, rejecting an aggressive plan to stem sex-related crimes in the armed forces 6:08 PM from Albequerque Express Read more »

• UnitedHealthcare Struggles To Fix Delays In Managing Military Health Care

  Pentagon is allowing UnitedHealthcare more time to fix chronic delays in the insurer's handling of referrals and authorizations for medical treatment of active-duty and retired military families in the western U.S. The problems stem from a huge volume of requests 5:52 PM from Hartford Courant Read more »

• Dem senator presses Pentagon on Guantanamo feeding

  says she opposes the force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is pressing the Pentagon to establish a more humane treatment. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California wrote to Defense Secretary Chuck 5:25 PM from Buffalo News Read more »

• UPDATE 1-Budget cuts hit security checks for U.S. defense contractors

  June 19 (Reuters) - A budget shortfall has forced a Pentagon security unit to sharply cut back on regular investigations used to update security clearances for defense contractor employees. In a little-noticed announcement posted on its website on June 7, 4:05 PM from Reuters Mobile Read more »