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WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is weighing policy changes that would lift a tattered veil of secrecy from its controversial campaign of drone strikes, a recognition that the expanding program has become a regular part of U.S. global counterterrorism operations. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adm. Bill McRaven said Tuesday that special operations forces in Afghanistan are preparing for a possible expanded role as overall U.S. forces begin to draw down after a decade of war. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is moving ahead with plans for negotiating with the Taliban, confident that talks offer the best chance to end the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan. But the military worries things are moving too fast, and intelligence agencies offered a gloomy prognosis in their latest Afghanistan report. (more)

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait (AP) — The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief. Their convoy’s exit marked the end of a bitterly divisive war that raged for nearly nine years and left Iraq shattered and struggling to recover. (more)

President Barack Obama has begun trying to reach military voters from the campaign trail, praising soldiers’ accomplishments and scaling back his portrayal of soldiers as wounded warriors dependent on government services. (more)

Michael Avery, a Suffolk University Law School professor who made headlines for an email to colleagues calling care packages for United States soldiers abroad “shameful,” attended the University of Moscow from 1968 through 1969, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Memories of horror and heroism echoed Sunday across the west side of the Pentagon where, a decade ago, a hijacked airplane carrying 59 doomed passengers and crew and 36,200 pounds of jet fuel smashed into the fortress-like military headquarters, killing all aboard and 125 inside. (more)

After the 2010 midterm election, many in the pundit class were predicting a “triangulation” or shift to the center by President Barack Obama so they he could set himself up for a 2012 reelection bid. And though he’s been described as a “mean, vindictive, little guy” and “cold” in the past and now, that triangulation might be dead, which gives us some more insight into Obama’s character according to conservative talker Rush Limbaugh. (more)

The growing cloud of space junk surrounding the Earth is a hazard to spaceflight, and will only get worse as large pieces of debris collide and fragment. NASA space scientists have hit on a new way to manage the mess: Use mid-powered lasers to nudge space junk off collision courses. (more)

There is jubilation throughout Beijing and Shanghai tonight as a triumphal President Hu returns to China after backhanding the President of the United States in too many ways to count. Actually, Hu didn’t even wait until he got back to China to start celebrating — he began his victory party while still at the White House. According to the Epoch Times, a global newspaper with an emphasis on Communist China, the musical guest performing at the White House state dinner that Obama threw for Hu, a pianist named Lang Lang, played a song widely known in China as an anti-American anthem. It is the theme song of a very famous Chinese movie. (more)

BAGHDAD—Three American soldiers were killed and one was wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said. (more)

When the late, great General George S. Patton slapped an ill soldier he mistakenly believed was malingering, General Eisenhower reprimanded him and relieved him of his command. But Eisenhower kept Patton on as General and later appointed him to command the Third Army. (more)

The familiar passage from the Scriptures says: “And he gave him the name Jesus.” (Matt. 1:25). This name-giving was done in the confines of the stable in Bethlehem, of course. Naming the name of Jesus in that sheltered place would presumably have been permitted under the new guidance for “freedom of worship.” (more)

If conservatives want to know why they’re losing the culture war, and why the so-called gay rights movement is effecting a political, social and legal revolution in America — on marriage, adoption, military service and a host of other issues — look no further than Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). (more)

Not everyone is thrilled about the prospects of the post-“don’t ask, don’t tell” era of the U.S. military. (more)

The unspoken reality underlying President Obama’s update for the nation on the war in Afghanistan Thursday was that U.S. troops will likely be fighting for many years to come in a conflict that has already gone on for almost a decade. (more)

The Senate should reject any stand-alone amendment overturning the 1996 congressional law preventing gays from serving in the military. Why? (more)

As President Obama prepares to give the nation a status update on the war in Afghanistan Thursday, some in Washington are calling on him to “own” the conflict in a way they say he has not, and to articulate a clearer long-term commitment to the region than he has so far. (more)

In summer 2008, the U.S. military had a major problem. More than 2,400 service members had reported being sexually assaulted the previous year, and the number was rising. Congress wanted immediate action. (more)

The average American could buy a house for the amount of money it takes to run Air Force One every hour. (more)