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Air Force officer arrests stokes sexual assault outrage

| Caroline May
JeffreyKrusinski

Lieutenant colonel in charge of sexual assault prevention busted for assaulting woman in Arlington parking lot

Pentagon denies Assange and Wikileaks are enemies of the state - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
Britain Wikileaks Assange

‘We regard this as a law enforcement matter’

Sen. Ayotte on 'one of great threats to our national security that you haven't heard of' - TheDC

| Jamie Weinstein

‘It would be like shooting ourselves in the head, is what the secretary of defense has said’

Air Force begins training program for F-35 stealth fighter - TheDC

| Josh Peterson
Strike Fighter School

Air Force begins training program for F-35 stealth fighter

Obama campaign gets more Air Force aircraft to tote re-election gear - TheDC

| Neil Munro
Obama Visit

Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to carry around security vehicles, armored limousines and communications gear

Judge: Discharged gay vets can sue for full severance - McClatchy

| InternAdmin

Obama administration argues separation pay should be decided by military

The case for competition in government acquisitions

| Ralph Nash

Why the Joint Strike Fighter engine competition is so important.

'Catch and release' policy draws fire in Afghanistan - Washington Examiner

| wrahn

More than 500 suspected Taliban fighters detained by U.S. forces have been released from custody at the urging of Afghan government officials

The Tea Party's magical mystery tour

| William Temple

Where are Tea Party groups getting all of the money they’re spending in the run-up to the election?

New Orleans' resilience will keep it on the road to recovery

| Ewell Smith

By making timely and targeted investments, we can give the Gulf region the shot in the arm it needs to weather the latest economic storm.

Records reveal Alvin Greene's military failures - AP

| interns

The records, which document his superiors’ decisions to pass over Greene for promotion, cite mistakes as severe as improperly uploading sensitive intelligence information

A glitch in time - AP

| admin

Glitch renders 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days; officials blame installation of new software

Keeping Iran’s hands off nukes

| Ed Ross

The use of U.S. military force in Iran is highly undesirable, but the threat of its use as negotiating leverage is essential; and for that threat to be credible, the U.S. must be willing to use overwhelming force, the lesser of two evils, as a last resort

Inside the secret X-37B space plane - POPULAR MECHANICS

| interns

Move over NASA. The U.S. Air Force has spent decades on the concept: an unmanned space plane that can be used to spy, reposition satellites, possibly even bomb targets, then return to base. A successful launch next week could turn that vision into a reality

Next generation of tankers is in good hands

| Brigadier General Thomas C. Pinckney (Ret.)

While the military is waiting for the French to decide the Air Force’s future, tens of thousands of American jobs, billions of dollars and our airmen are waiting

Former CIA Director Hayden: Thiessen’s ‘Courting Disaster’ a must-read

| Michael Hayden

Marc Thiessen begins his new book, ‘Courting Disaster,’ with something of a disclaimer: For reasons of security and classification, he says, he should not have been able to write it. He’s right. He shouldn’t have been able to write it. But I’m glad he did.

Airbus contract: America’s job growth plan for France

| Kerri Houston Tolozcko

Job numbers are still looking bad. Slowing the rate of unemployment may be relatively welcome news, but it is not the same as creating jobs.