Is JPAC ignoring clues, technology that could bring unknowns home?

Families of the missing and JPAC whistleblowers believe modern technology and the analysis of war and post-war documents can easily identify a great number of these World War II unknowns but say JPAC has chosen to ignore them.

NATO chief endorses working around Karzai

NATO’s top official signaled on Wednesday that Afghan officials other than President Hamid Karzai have the power to sign a key long-term security accord with the U.S. and NATO.

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Air Force Academy defends use of cadet informants

The Air Force Academy defended its use of confidential informants after a cadet said he was expelled because of misconduct linked to providing information.

AF recruits cadets to inform on colleagues and disavows them

Army sees use for $36M Afghan building despite Marines' objections

An Army general in Kabul who investigated why the military spent nearly $36 million to construct a 64,000-square-foot headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan that has never been used has recommended that U.S. troops move in. The finding has left some other senior military officers aghast.

NATO, Russia work to dispose of obsolete bombs, munitions

Russia and NATO agreed Wednesday to work together to destroy thousands of outdated Cold War-era munitions in Russia’s Kaliningrad region even as they remain at loggerheads over key issues such as the alliance’s missile defense plans in Europe, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.

NATO wraps up major exercise in Poland, Baltics

NATO, Russia advance tech to search crowds for explosives

Piled on top of security, fraud concerns in Afghan elections: snow

Amid concerns about potential fraud and security problems marring Afghanistan’s presidential election, the potential stumbling block residents of this mountain village and others like it face can’t be fixed with monitors or electronic voter cards: For them, it is likely to be a three-foot blanket of snow and no means of transportation to reach far-away polling stations.

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Praise for military response to Philippines storm effusive

The Nov. 8 tropical storm that hit the Philippines killed more than 5,600 islanders, created piles of debris that still stand two stories high and left a scene of devastation that one prominent House leader compared to Hiroshima, Japan. But it also created an opportunity for the U.S. military to flex its humanitarian muscles.
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Fort Hood soldier convicted in prostitution ring case

A Fort Hood sergeant convicted for his role in a prostitution ring involving cash-strapped female soldiers has been reprimanded and demoted.
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Supreme Court weighs protests at military installations

A Supreme Court case involving the right to protest space-based weaponry at a California military base evolved Wednesday into an argument over property functions and highway easements.

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Ramstein airman killed in on-base car wreck

An airman assigned to Ramstein Air Base was killed Wednesday morning in a one-car accident on base, officials said in a news release.
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UK soldier arrested, suspected of terror offenses

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If Karzai stonewalls on agreement, is US military planning harmed?

U.S. officials, including Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, have likewise stressed that a signature by the end of the year was crucial, saying delay until 2014 would deeply impact the ability to plan a broad range of military operations in Afghanistan. But would a delay until 2014 really hamper U.S. military planning?
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Army sees use for $36M Afghan building despite Marines' objections

An Army general in Kabul who investigated why the military spent nearly $36 million to construct a 64,000-square-foot headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan that has never been used has recommended that U.S. troops move in. The finding has left some other senior military officers aghast.
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Rocket attack kills Vietnam veteran at Afghanistan air base
Insurgents attack police headquarters in Iraq

Biden urges Chinese youth to challenge authority

Arriving midday in Beijing, Biden paid a visit to the U.S. embassy, where he surprised Chinese citizens waiting to get visitor visas processed in the embassy's consular section. Thanking a group of mostly young people for wanting to visit the U.S., Biden said he hoped they would learn during their visit that "innovation can only occur where you can breathe free."
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US veteran detained in N. Korea oversaw guerrilla group

An 85-year-old U.S. veteran being held in North Korea spent his war years there in one of the Army's first special forces unit, helping a clandestine group of Korean partisans who were fighting and spying well behind enemy lines.
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Fort Hood soldier convicted in prostitution ring case December 4, 2013
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Ramstein airman killed in on-base car wreck December 4, 2013
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