Threat of Climate Change to National Security
Senior retired military leaders released a report on how changing global climate may present serious threats to U.S. national security and to American forces at home and abroad. They talked …
255 viewsSenior retired military leaders released a report on how changing global climate may present serious threats to U.S. national security and to American forces at home and abroad. They talked …
255 viewsThe committee heard testimony from Department of Defense officials on the administration’s new policy concerning homosexuals in the U.S. military. The previous day, President Clinton announc…
4,387 viewsDefense Secretary Les Aspin and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke in a news conference following a speech by President Bill Clinton on the new policy on homosexuals in the U.S. mili…
301 viewsIn a symposium commemorating the Marshall Plan in post-World War II Europe, the panelists talked about the information explosion and the marketing of knowledge. They emphasized the need to s…
166 viewsGeneral Gordon Sullivan, Army Chief of Staff, delivered the opening address at the Veterans of Foreign Wars conference. He discussed the role of the U.S. Armed Forces in Europe during the Co…
37 viewsPresident Clinton delivered his D-Day address to American veterans. Standing in front of the 1st Division Monument outside the Old Executive Office Building, the president paid tribute to th…
194 viewsDefense Secretary Les Aspin and others discussed the Pentagon’s recent decision to cut reserve troop levels and the National Guard. The Pentagon plans to cut 100,000 soldiers from these depa…
157 viewsThe committee heard testimony from the chiefs of each armed service on what their department was doing to eliminate sexual harassment and discrimination. The witnesses were also given the ch…
224 viewsThis was the third of five meetings looking at the 1991 START agreement negotiated in Moscow between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Secretary Dick Cheney and General Colin Po…
225 viewsThe panelists discussed the impact of defense spending cuts on the various branches of the military, and how the army, navy, marines and the air force would handle the so-called defense buil…
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