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© Stefani Reynolds Happy Tuesday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE: The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee will not request a delay to an arms sale to Israel after the Biden administration agreed to brief lawmakers on the deal, he said Tuesday. “What we wanted to do is to have a dialogue and conversation,” committee Chairman Gregory Meeks A day earlier: Meeks’ comments come after he told Democr...

Overnight Defense: Top Dem backs off request for Israel arms sale delay | Afghanistan withdrawal up to 20 percent done | Esper returns to defense industry Ellen Mitchell © Stefani Reynolds Overnight Defense: Top Dem backs off request for Israel arms sale delay | Afghanistan withdrawal up to 20 percent done | Esper returns to defense industry Happy Tuesday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Ellen Mitchell, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE: The chairm...

May 12, 2015 9:47 AM The Navy and Marine Corps are calling on those running wargames, from the smallest unit exercises to the largest international ones, such as Rim of the Pacific 2014, above, to do a better job recording and sharing their lessons learned. US Navy photo. Well before Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus issued a recent memo on wargaming, the Navy and Marine Corps did plenty of it. Experiments take place at all levels, from squads to Marine Expeditionary Units to Carrier Strike Groups – and in field experiments all the way up to international exercises. But a line in Mabus’ war...

Speaking directly to the american people, can succeed. the case is compelling. >> i take very seriously the president's promise that we will not be putting boots on the ground in syria. i have been to too many funeral, visited too many disabled veterans to ever want to see us do that again except when absolutely necessary for america's survival. martha: boy, good question, right? chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill this morning, so what more do we know, mike, about the opposition to use this force authorization? >> reporter: well, martha, the politics of this...