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                    [Title] => Hagel: US to build capacities of Asia-Pacific allies
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As the Philippine military gears toward a minimum credible defense capability, the United States vowed to assist its Southeast Asian allies to be militarily stronger.

[DatePublished] => 2015-01-15 14:08:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20150115/chuck-hagel.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1405160 [Title] => Air Force admits nuke flaws, but will fixes work? [Summary] =>

Faced with one of its biggest challenges in years — repairing a troubled nuclear missile corps — the US Air Force has taken an important first step by admitting, after years of denial, that its problems run deep and wide.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-21 16:01:45 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1702728 [AuthorName] => Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1400756 [Title] => General: Islamic State fighters on their heels [Summary] =>

Islamic State fighters have lost the initiative in Iraq and are now "on defense" with far less ability to generate the kind of ground maneuvers that enabled the extremists to capture large chunks of Iraq earlier this year, a senior US general said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-09 07:12:47 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1702728 [AuthorName] => Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1400097 [Title] => More US troops than planned to stay in Afghanistan [Summary] =>

The United States will keep about 1,000 more troops in Afghanistan than planned early next year to fill a temporary NATO troop gap in the new mission to train and advise Afghan security forces, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday on his final visit to this war-weary country as Pentagon chief.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-07 12:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1702728 [AuthorName] => Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1395713 [Title] => Woman tops US defense chief shortlist [Summary] =>

Michele Flournoy, formerly the Pentagon's policy chief and among President Barack Obama's more hawkish advisers, could be in line to become the first woman to lead the U.S. military after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's resignation.

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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the U.S. military is accelerating its efforts to train and advise Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State militants.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-17 09:42:17 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1702728 [AuthorName] => Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1392430 [Title] => Hagel: US needs game-changing military innovation [Summary] =>

Wary of a more muscular Russia and China, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Saturday the Pentagon will make a new push for fresh thinking and creative ideas about how the US can keep and extend its military superiority despite tighter budgets and 13 years of war.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-16 12:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1702728 [AuthorName] => Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1385761 [Title] => US defense chief considers new military-wide Ebola policy [Summary] =>

The U.S. military chiefs recommended to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that he require all troops returning from Ebola response missions in West Africa be kept in supervised isolation for 21 days, the Pentagon said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-29 09:15:39 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1702728 [AuthorName] => Robert Burns [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1384307 [Title] => US general: NKorea may have nuke missile knowhow [Summary] =>

North Korea may be capable of fielding a nuclear-armed missile that could reach U.S. soil, but because it has not tested such a weapon the odds of it being effective are "pretty darn low," the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said Friday.

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The United States on Thursday agreed to maintain wartime control of South Korean troops in the event of an attack by North Korea for the foreseeable future, delaying the transfer of authority to Seoul that had been scheduled for 2015.

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