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Chris Matthews calls it unspeakable that Richard Blumenthal misrepresented his Vietnam service. www.nrsc.org

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Space programs, aircraft and ship maintenance, and helicopter upgrades are among $1.8 billion in priority weapons programs that were not funded in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2011 budget, the military services told Congress in documents released Monday.
Representative Buck McKeon, top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, released the services’ “unfunded priorities lists,” [...]

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has proposed holding military talks with the South next week after it raised tension on the troubled peninsula last week by warning it would hold live-fire drills near the border with its rival.
North Korea is apparently using military threats against U.S. ally South Korea to strengthen its hand to win [...]

In development for years, Russia gives world the first glimpse of the new PAK FA fighter plane.
The PAK FA’s test flight was successful and the jet is considered the rival to America’s F-22.
The manufacturing company Sukhoi’s spokeswoman Olga Kayukova: “The flight lasted 47 minutes during which all the aircraft’s systems were tested. It was successful,This is the first time [...]

Chris Matthews apologized for his vile remarks about West Point, the Army’s Military Academy that trains officers. He had made the remark during on-air Tuesday during an analysis of Obama’s speech to the Academy about the Afghanistan War. Matthews remarked about his perception of skepticism on the cadet’s faces.
“I didn’t see a lot [...]

Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli said that as of Monday, 140 active duty soldiers are believed to have died of self-inflicted wounds. That’s the same as were confirmed for all of 2008.
“We are almost certainly going to end the year higher than last year — this is horrible, and I do not [...]

After liberals blasted the last administration for letting national security secrets slip out to the media, the same problem has continued to occur under the new administration. In fact, the slips have been so bad that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has told his officials to “just shut up.”
Gates went on to add that if [...]

The President looks back at a week where we honored those who serve on Veterans Day, and mourned those we lost at Fort Hood. He discusses the review he has ordered into the Fort Hood incident, and pledges to stand by our servicemen and women, as well as our veterans, as his most profound responsibility. [...]