DOTMIL

GOP Lawmaker to Panetta: Don't Use Marines' Punishment to Appease Allies
Tweet Share on Facebook

By John T. Bennett

January 18, 2012 Comment (9)

A hawkish U.S. lawmaker is urging Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to resist tailoring a punishment for Marines who allegedly urinated on Taliban corpses just to please Washington's allies in the region.

Continue reading »

Tags:

foreign policy,

Department of Defense,

national security terrorism and the military,

War in Afghanistan (2001-),

military,

Afghanistan

DOTMIL

Brought to you by veteran national security correspondent John T. Bennett and the U.S. News & World Report staff, DOTMIL takes you inside the offices of the Pentagon's E-Ring, behind the scenes with congressional policymakers and beyond the boardrooms of America's top defense companies to report, analyze, and interpret the evolving international security environment and how it impacts U.S. interests at home and abroad.