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	<description>Where military intelligence is not a contradiction in terms</description>
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		<title>And You Thought Mac Software Was Expensive&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 21:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Focused Like a Laser, On All the Wrong Things</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/focused-like-a-laser-on-all-the-wrong-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We used to cover the machinations of the House and Senate armed services committees very closely. Of course, 30 years ago all we cared about was whether 180 or 240 F-16 jets would be ordered in next year’s budget (that’s all our readers at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where the plane is still being built, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74779&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NoKo Non-Nuclear Blast: A Secret Plea for Help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea has reacted sharply to criticism over the weekend from the working G8 lunch at Camp David. “All of us agree that North Korea is violating its international obligations and that there is a path for them to rejoin the international community,” President Obama said. “But that objective will not be achieved if they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74763&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trash Talk&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/trash-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trash can be deadly. You can get a hint of that from the contract solicitation issued Tuesday by the Defense Logistics Agency’s European disposition office seeking “hazardous waste services in southwest Asia.” Lord knows, after a decade of war the U.S. military needs help getting rid of these deadly leftovers. The Pentagon made clear that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74709&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disarming Allies…</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/23/disarming-allies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms sales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems kind of strange that the U.S. government is turning over warships to the Philippine navy, but only after the vessels have been stripped of their weapons despite Manila’s request that they remain (better not tell the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Moro National Liberation Front, Abu Sayyaf, the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Jemaah Islamiyah or assorted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74727&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Plan to Get Congress to Approve the Pentagon Budget?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/22/secret-plan-to-get-congress-to-approve-the-pentagon-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Vest-Bomb Slaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can hear the suicide bomb that killed more than 100 Yemeni paramilitary troops detonate two seconds into this video. That’s a staggering death toll for an explosive-packed vest. The troops were either tightly packed around the bomber, or it was an especially nasty device. That&#8217;s in keeping with the work of Yemeni-based Ibrahim Hassan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74652&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We Pause for This Commercial&#8230;Sale&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Liebelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legislators are fighting over every single dollar in this year’s defense budget, although saving billions could be as simple as changing a few words in a contracting statute. And believe it &#8212; or not &#8212; the Pentagon is the good guy in this battle. The Defense Department is circulating a proposal on Capitol Hill that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74623&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only One Year of U.S.-Led Fighting Left</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/only-one-year-of-u-s-led-fighting-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s goal at the NATO summit this week is looking increasingly clear: wrap up U.S. troops’ combat role over the coming year, and get the allies to pay more money to enable the Afghan military to fill the gap. All signs are that NATO will agree to the first of those two goals Monday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74557&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House Pushes for East Coast Missile Shield</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/house-pushes-for-east-coast-missile-shield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House has approved a $643 billion defense-spending bill for 2013 that’s $3.7 billion more than the Obama Administration, and its Pentagon, is seeking. That’s just about the same amount the Congressional Budget Office estimates the House bill&#8217;s push for an East Coast missile shield will cost over the next five years. It’s amazing that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=battleland.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=74540&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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