From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 1:10 PM

Professor Wilson, also an attorney for a detainee, talked about the status of detainees held in military facilities at Guantanamo Bay, military interrogation techniques, and legal procedures for military tribunals. He responded to audience telephone calls, faxes and electronic mail.

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 9:48 AM

Brigadier General Hemingway, legal adviser for military commissions, spoke to reporters about the recent court ruling allowing military tribunals to continue. He used PowerPoint slides to discuss initial hearings, military commissions, and personnel allowed in the court. Following his ...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 6:19 AM

Mr. Cameron and Ms. Reisman spoke in a panel on the ban on homosexuals in the U.S. military during a symposium on gay and lesbian issues sponsored by Accuracy in Media, a conservative watchdog group. The speakers criticized proposals to remove the ban on gays in the U.S. military, stat...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 6:17 AM

Participants talked about the military’s "don't ask, don't tell" policy ten years after the policy was enacted. They talked about their experiences as gay and lesbian servicemembers, the impact of the policy on discipline and morale, and the military's enforcement of the ...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 6:12 AM

Warrington Parker, a co-counsel for the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), and Gerald Walpin debated military recruiting on college campuses. They discussed Rumsfeld v. FAIR, a U.S. Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of the 1996 Solomon Amendment, heard in oral...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 6:09 AM

Professor Kagan, a former military professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, spoke about the United States military in Iraq. He recently wrote several articles in the Weekly Standard that outlined a blueprint for winning the war in Iraq. He responded to questions a...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 5:24 AM

Ms. Flournoy, author of the Democratic Leaders' Report on Military Readiness, talked about the state of America’s military. The report, titled "The U.S. Military: Under Strain and at Risk," was released by the Democratic Leaders' National Security Advisory Group and is a crit...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 4:32 AM

Witnesses testified on the topic "Special Operations Command: Transforming for the Long War." Among the issues they addressed were proposals for military transformation, future strategies for military operations in conflicts, personnel and training issues, and the future role of special forces ...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 4:23 AM

The guests talk about the March 28 U.S. Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld concerning whether using military commissions to try al Qaeda officials accused of war crimes is constitutional. Lieutenant Commander Swift is the military defense counsel to Mr. Hamdan, who was Osama bin Laden’s drive...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 2:48 AM

Subcommittee members heard testimony about sexual assault and violence against women in the military and at the military academies. Witnesses in the first panel talked about sexual assault, violence, and rape prevention in the military and recommended modernizing the provisions regardin...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 2:45 AM

Authors discussed their war memoirs in a panel titled "At War, At Home: Books on the Military," which was held at the Barnes and Noble bookstore. Linda Robinson talked about her book Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces, published by PublicAffairs. Her book re...

From: C-SPAN on Sat, Feb 05 2011 2:22 AM

The House Armed Services Committee held a hearing on standards and rules for military commissions and tribunals. Witnesses testified about the Bush administration’s decisions on detainee treatment while in captivity, the use of military judicial procedures, and the applicability of the ...

From: C-SPAN on Fri, Feb 04 2011 8:53 PM

Former Secretary Baker and Former Representative Hamilton testified about the report of the Iraq Study Group on its bipartisan effort to rethink military and political options in Iraq. Among the topics they addressed were the level of military deployments in the country, potential abili...

From: C-SPAN on Fri, Feb 04 2011 7:36 PM

Undersecretary of Defense David Chu and military personnel officials spoke to reporters about recent military personnel announcements and plans to expand the size of the Army and Marines.

From: C-SPAN on Fri, Feb 04 2011 4:48 PM

Three forums were held one three topics relating to the media and the military. In the first forum, the panelists focused on newspaper coverage of military operations in Iraq and the Middle East. The panelists in the second forum discussed the media’s balance of covering military news ...

From: C-SPAN on Fri, Feb 04 2011 2:29 PM

Mr. West talked about his 13th trip to Iraq to observe U.S. military action. While there he talked with military officials and also saw first-hand the effects of the increased U.S. military presence, the 'surge'. He showed several of his photographs. He wrote a continuing log about his...

From: C-SPAN on Fri, Feb 04 2011 1:23 PM

The Senate Armed Services Committee held the first in a series of hearings to examine the future of military commissions in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hamdan v Rumsfeld. Witnesses testified about the treatment of military detainees and enemy combatants, the provisions...

From: C-SPAN on Wed, Feb 02 2011 1:23 PM

From: C-SPAN on Tue, Jan 11 2011 2:36 PM

Ms. Lief discussed the role of the military in the Persian Gulf, Bush’s announcement to call up the military reserves and the effectiveness of the United State's embargo.

From: C-SPAN on Tue, Jan 11 2011 2:09 PM

Rep. Bonior announced amendments that focus on burden sharing with Japan. He said that the $1 billion package that Japan passed was welcome but not enough for the $1 billion per month bill for the crisis in the Persian Gulf. His amendment is to spur the Japanese into action by requiring...