Word: brasses
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...other foes, but critics call it redundant; there are two other fighter designs in the pipeline as well. Yet the Pentagon wants to spend $5.3 billion to build 23 Raptors and budgets only $100 million for 22 new Predator drones, even though U.S. commanders have been pleading with the brass for more. The Predator is "getting nickels and dimes, while traditional programs like manned jets are getting the tens and twenties," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a private military think tank...
...part of its annual tradition of honoring noted celebrities, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals awarded Bruce Willis their brass pudding pot in last night’s Man of the Year ceremony...
...part of its annual tradition of honoring noted celebrities, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals awarded Bruce Willis their brass pudding pot in last night’s Man of the Year ceremony...
...Taliban and stared down the resulting domestic Islamist backlash. Recognizing that the rot of extremism ran to the highest levels of his military and intelligence services, he risked alienating the institutions that had brought him to power by purging a number of Taliban supporters from the top brass. And earlier this year, under pressure from the U.S. and India following a terrorist attack on the Indian legislature in New Delhi, Musharraf launched a sweeping crackdown on domestic extremist groups, arresting thousands of activists. In the process, he articulated a vision of a modern Pakistan guided by the principles of religious...
...Philippine military brass admit a mistake was made - a colossal blunder - but say it was an error of judgment: apparently the soldiers were called away to a strategy meeting. They did not, insists the military, get paid off to let the rebels go. Father Nacorda says hospital staff saw Brigadier General Romeo Dominguez's aides carrying briefcases full of cash inside the hospital, though they didn't see any change hands between soldiers and rebels. Nacorda believes the army paid a ransom for the hostages, pocketing a cut for themselves. Brigadier General Dominguez, whose integrity is praised inside...