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The financial powers have been approved for projects under the 'Other Capital Procurement Procedure' category, they said. Financial powers to clear projects worth up to Rs 200 crore have been delegated to Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Air Officer Maintenance and Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff as well as to additional director general of Indian Coast Guard.

Secretary of the navy to strip achievement medals from the military prosecutors handling the case. a former pentagon spokesman questioned the move, tweeting that authority resides at a relatively low command level. >> reporter: and the president is defending his decision to impose new tariffs on china, saying the costs of those tariffs will not be passed on to american consumers, but thats not true. multiple studies have shown the cost of those tariffs are, indeed, passed on to u.s. consumers. a...

The command level in the 1960s. >> you talk to the military, young military, aspiring leaders, mcmaster is a hero. hes a person that spoke up and talked about the errors of foreign policy and how they were played out in military decisions. >> when you hear rex tillerson say the assad era is coming to an end like he did yesterday, what do you hear in that? that can happen a few different ways, from the syrian people somehow, russia leaning on him convincing him to leave power. i dont see any ince...

Service should preclude them from serving. that was his first week on the job. defense secretary said that in february. well, tonight, the pentagon has announced that it is moving toward opening the door for transgender troops, the same way the pentagon opened the door in the first term of the obama administration for gay troops. secretary of defense ash carter has ordered a six-month study to review the militarys policies on transgender service members and to consider the effect that changing t...

Way of building comradery. sure there should be open conversations about race. you should not be able to say racial epithets as a way of building moral. its ridiculous. >> the u.s. army has been advanced in accepting african-americans, other minorities. >> tremendous strides. >> im shocked that this is -- >> i hope this is isolated. i hope this is not indicative of anything widespread. getting transparency on it and certainly we hope the department of defense and leadership of the army will imme...

Deployment. ammunition is withheld more than it should be. i think we need to be entrusting junior leaders and others to make the tough decisions on site. im not saying that you arm everybody. but sometimes risk mitigation can go too far, which means you have a bunch of unarmed people in particular situations that cant fend themselves. >> colonel, what is your last thought as we await this news conference at ft. hood? >> well, i can tell you at the command level, every single person is being ask...

Making at the command level that led to the operation. the planning, the supplies, whether he was at that point worth the effort. as ed derek wrote in 2011, the opening phase of red wings was an unmitigated monumental disaster if not the greatest in military history because so many resources were pushed to recovery effort and many canceled alltogether, ahmad shah saw his ranks, finances enabling him to renew his attacks with greater infrequent see. sadly, many of my military sources agree with d...

They had a much more gung ho culture during the cold war and now that there doesnt seem to be a point to these land-based missiles, there seems to be moral problems. these are only really useful for attacking russia or china and the head of the global strike command, the air force officer in charge of all of their nuclear weapons said recently there was a remote possibility of russia attacking us. he said the greatest concern he had was of an accident and i think hes right. these are the most da...

Now that there doesnt seem to be a point to these i missiles, there seems to be moral problems. these are only really useful for attacking russia or china and the head of the global strike command, the air force officer in charge of all of their nuclear weapons said recently there was a remote possibility of russia attacking us. he said the greatest concern he had was of an accident and i think hes right. these are the most dangerous weapons as well as the most powerful weapons weve built and if...

>> he was -- >> how do you trust somebody that believes in that? >> you shouldnt. birds of a feather flock together. >> i have never heard that. >> with who you associate yourself with. who do you agree with. who are you like-minded with. the military would do well at that point to distrust him. he had distrust of anybody at the command level or not? >> didnt he ask gates to stay on. >> youre making a very -- youre making a very important point. not only did he ask gates to stay on. remember whe...