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President Obama Hosts GCC Leaders to Camp David, Offers ‘Ironclad’ Security Commitment
- May 15,2015
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- SUSTG Team
President Barack Obama hosted a summit of GCC member states in Camp David this week to shore up U.S. security support for external threats to Gulf Nations and discuss the Administration’s nuclear deal with Iran. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir called the U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit at Camp David “unprecedented” and said the day had brought U.S.-Gulf […]
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With Hagel Out, Obama’s Next Appointment for Defense Secretary Will Have an Impact on U.S.-Saudi Relations
- November 26,2014
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- Lucien Zeigler
Just days before President Obama announced in the White House Rose Garden that his Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel would resign, Hagel met with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Miteb bin Abdullah – a rising star in Saudi Arabia at the Pentagon. With Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel set to resign, all eyes in the Middle East and […]
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After Meetings with Obama and the Pentagon, Saudi Prince Miteb Bin Abdullah Touts US-Saudi Military Cooperation
- November 24,2014
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia’s visiting National Guard Minister, Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, visited Washington, D.C. last week in a push to “strengthen bilateral cooperation in various sectors, especially between the Defense Department and the Saudi National Guard,” according to reports in the Arab News and the Eurasia Review. Additionally, Miteb said that Saudi Arabia will receive Black Hawk […]
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Lockheed, Raytheon Sell ‘Worlds Most Advanced’ Patriot Missile System to Saudi Arabia for $1.7b
- October 2,2014
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- SUSTG Team
U.S. defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are the lead contractors in the proposed $1.7b sale of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile system to Saudi Arabia, following a request for approval by the Pentagon. The development is the latest in recent weeks indicating a strengthening of U.S.-Saudi ties as the two countries coordinate security efforts to counter […]
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Saudi Arabia Continues Extremist Crackdown: 88 Arrested ‘On the Verge of Carrying Out Operations’
- September 2,2014
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- SUSTG Team
The government of Saudi Arabia has arrested 88 it says were “on the verge of carrying out operations,” news agencies are reporting. The move is the latest in an ongoing crackdown on extremism. The arrests follow remarks made by King Abdullah over the weekend to foreign Ambassadors to Saudi Arabia in which the Custodian of […]
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Steve Clemons Interviews Defense Secretary Hagel: ‘Still Sergeant Hagel After All These Years’
- October 12,2013
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- Lucien Zeigler
Steve Clemons, Washington Editor-at-Large of the growing online magazine The Atlantic, has a wide-ranging exclusive interview with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel seven months after he replaced Robert Gibbs at the Pentagon. The interview provides valuable insight into the office of the Secretary of Defense and Secretary Hagel himself. When asked by Clemons about the strategic […]
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Saudi Arabia Seeks $6.7 Billion of U.S. Transport Planes
- November 9,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Arabia plans to buy 20 C-130J military transport planes, five KC-130J refueling aircraft and related equipment from Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) valued at about $6.7 billion, the Pentagon said today in a statement.The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the potential sale to Saudi Arabia, the agency said in a statement posted […]
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Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman Visits Pentagon, White House
- April 12,2012
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- SUSTG Team
Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz held talks at the Pentagon on Wednesday that focused on the crisis in Syria, hours before a ceasefire deadline was due to expire. The Saudi defense chief later held talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
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Kabul airport attack: Lone ISIS attacker caused ‘disturbing lethality,’ Pentagon finds
The investigation, details of which were presented to the media Friday, was ordered after a member of Islamic State-Khorasan, the extremist group’s affiliate in Afghanistan, detonated a suicide vest Aug. 26 in a crowded outdoor corridor just outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, killing an estimated 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops. The attack on the airfield’s Abbey Gate occurred as the U.S. military raced to evacuate thousands of Afghan allies during a frantic, two-week rescue operation set in motion when the Taliban seized control of the capital.
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Iranian claims that U.S. tried to detain tanker false, Pentagon says
American officials said that in reality Iranian forces had seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month, and U.S. naval forces were just monitoring the situation.
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Pentagon favors U.S. sale of more than $500 million worth of armed drones to Qatar, but State Department is wary
The Defense Department is encouraging the sale of more than $500 million worth of armed drones to Qatar, even as the State Department has slow-rolled the Qatari government's request, say three U.S. officials and a congressional aide familiar with the discussions.
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Terror Groups in Afghanistan Could Attack US Next Year, Pentagon Policy Chief Says
The 3,000 or so members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, have already been launching attacks in Afghanistan for some time; 13 Americans died in an August suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport. But being able to carry out terrorist attacks outside the country is more complicated, and neither ISIS-K nor Al Qaeda can do so currently, Kahl said. He estimated that ISIS-K could be able to strike abroad within six to 12 months; for Al Qaeda, which was behind the 9/11 attacks, one to two years.
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Pentagon, State Department square off on Afghanistan accountability
Recent hearings on Afghanistan have left members of Congress frustrated as top officials from the State Department and Department of Defense (DOD) lay blame on the other at congressional hearings on Afghanistan.
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Pentagon spending on defense contractors hurt US in post-9/11 conflicts: study
Privatizing key functions such as shepherding fuel convoys or training and equipping Afghan security forces “can reduce the U.S. military’s control of activities that occur in war zones while increasing risks of waste, fraud and abuse,” the report states. “Additionally, that the waging of war is a source of profits can contradict the goal of having the U.S. lead with diplomacy in seeking to resolve conflicts. More broadly, the outsized influence of defense contractors has resulted in a growing militarization of American.”
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Pentagon Orders Troops to Get COVID Vaccine
Troops have not heretofore been required to get vaccinated against COVID because the vaccines have been distributed since December under emergency use authorization from the FDA. That changed on Monday, when the Pfizer vaccine received full approval for people ages 16 years and older. Austin had said in an Aug. 9 memo that he would require troops to get vaccinated if that happened.
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US Has Evacuated 42,000 from Kabul; 16,000 in last 24 Hours Alone, Pentagon Says
“It’s going to build, to increase significantly,” a defense official told Defense One on the condition they not be named. “You are going to see a significant uptick in the number of transport aircraft going in there and the volume and pace at which they are moving.”
- Military Times - Taliban says it won’t accept extension to Biden’s Aug. 31 Afghanistan withdrawal deadline
- USNI News - Petraeus Questions U.S. Ability to Counter Terrorism After Afghanistan’s Fall
- Washington Post - CIA Director William Burns held secret meeting in Kabul with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar
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Pentagon Sends 3,000 Troops to Secure Kabul Airport as US Evacuates Embassy Staff, Interpreters
Three infantry battalions that are already deployed to the Middle East “are on the way now” and will be on the ground in Kabul within the next 24 hours, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Thursday. In addition, an infantry brigade combat team from Fort Bragg, North Carolina—roughly 3,500 additional troops—will be sent to Kuwait in case additional forces are needed.
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White House, Pentagon Finalizing Plans to Get Thousands of Interpreters out of Afghanistan
After weeks of pledges to not leave behind interpreters who have worked side by side with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Pentagon and White House officials on Thursday spoke more bluntly about how they are planning to evacuate those key allies in the waning weeks of U.S. military operations there.
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