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US can't dictate, but must engage the world: Def Secy Hagel
US can't dictate the world, but engage the international community in a wisely manner, new US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said today, adding that the country not only needs to renew its old alliances but also build new ones. #United States #Leon Panetta #WhoSaidWhat #Chuck Hagel
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Hagel has enough votes to be next US defense secretary
Chuck Hagel secured the necessary votes for the US Senate to confirm him to be the next defense secretary barring any new, damaging information, after a longtime senator said he would support him, paving the way for a vote next week that will end the bitter fight over President Barack Obama's Cabinet choice. #Barack Obama #NewsTracker #Leon Panetta #Bob Dole #Chuck Hagel
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Leon Panetta to testify on US Consulate attack in Benghazi
In the attack, the US Ambassador to Libya and three other American nationals were killed. #Leon Panetta #Benghazi #US Consulate in Benghazi #General Martin Dempsey
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India, US are talking ten to the dozen
India wants to be close to the US, buy American weapons, and even send signals to China but not in too overt a manner. #United States #India #ThisisNext #Leon Panetta
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CNSNews.com
Gates Suggests Americans Have a ‘Cartoonish Impression’ of U.S. Military Might
(CNSNews.com) - Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says if he'd been defense secretary during the attacks in Benghazi, he wouldn’t have sent" a single aircraft" to Libya, either, given all the “surface-to-air missiles that have disappeared from Gadhaf #Robert Gates #Benghazi, Libya #Libya
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The Seattle Times
Hagel orders review of military sex-abuse prevention
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify every person involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgment that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon’s control. He s #Washington, D.C. #The Pentagon #Chuck Hagel
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Bangkok Post
Lt. Gen. Scaparrotti picked to lead US forces in S.Korea
A US Army officer who served at the top echelon in the Afghanistan war and at the Pentagon has been picked to lead American forces in South Korea, according to officials. Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of ISAF Joint Command, holds a press confere #Afghanistan #The Pentagon #Leon Panetta




