Defense Secretary Gates visits with troops on his farewell tour
This Department of Defense photo taken on June 5, 2011 shows Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates as he meets with the unit command at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan. UPI/Cherie Cullen/DOD
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UPI Almanac for Sunday, April 28, 2013.
Suddenly drones are everywhere -- not in the skies over the United States, as they will be in their thousands in a few years, and not just hovering over foreign battlefields to strike terror in the heart of al-Qaida -- but as the focus of debate in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere.
Last year, the Obama administration released its latest strategic guidance for the Pentagon. The lead headline read "U.S. pivots to Asia."
A former defense secretary and several lawmakers said a U.S. president should not be empowered to order drone strikes on U.S. citizens without an outside check.
A group of former U.S. secretaries of state and defense sent a letter to the U.S. Senate endorsing former Sen. Chuck Hagel as the next defense secretary.
UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013.
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U.S. President Barack Obama likely will nominate former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., as secretary of defense, the Los Angeles Times reports.
UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012.
North Korea Wednesday reported the successful launch of a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket fired in defiance of international and U.N. warnings.
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