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Arm you PC with Military Periscope. For more than two decades, it's been the premier online service for accurate open-source global deefense information."

Login to the Library Intranet, using your library card bardcode. Select the link titled "Databases", and navigate the alphabetical listing to Military Periscope.

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Military Legal Resources

The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School Library in Charlottesville, VA, holds extensive collections of primary source materials and publications in the field of military law. Selections from these collections are now being made accessible in full text PDF versions via the Library of Congress Federal Research Division (FRD) Web site. As more materials are converted to digital formats, they will be added to this page.

See what else is on our Legislative Affairs page.

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Looking for eBooks? Check our catalog listing for availability of titles. Plus, our ebrary eBooks are now downloadable to your personal device. Call us to learn more.
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The Historical Office of the Secretary of Defense has relaunched its website with a new design.

The rich heritage of Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Department is chronicled in a newly designed website:
http://history.defense.gov. Visit the site to read more about our nation's defense secretaries and to view publications, documents and historical images.

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The Pentagon Library introduces History Vault Vietnam to our Library Card holders via the Library Intranet. This resource covers U.S. involvement in the region from the early days of the Kennedy administration, through the escalation of the war during the Johnson administration, to the final resolution of the war at the Paris Peace Talks and the evacuation of U.S. troops in 1973.

Pentagon Library now offers HeinOnline to all Library Card holders via the Library Intranet. This resource includes comprehensive coverage of the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, as well as International Law libraries.

New Reports

U.S. National Intelligence: An Overview 2011, January 2012 from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, January 2012 from The White House and The Pentagon

Report to Congress on Contracting Fraud, October 2011 from Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Army Human Resource Information Technology Strategy, 27 September 2011 from Human Resource Management Domain

Final Report to Congress: Transforming Wartime Contracting: Controlling costs, reducing risks, 1 August 2011 from Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan

Comprehensive Review of the Future Role of the Reserve Component, Volume I, 5 April 2011

GAO Military Personnel Report: Personnel and Cost Data Associated with Implementing DOD's Homosexual Conduct Policy

HR 2965, Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell

US State Department, "Leading Through Civilian Power", 1st Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), December 2010.

CRS Report: Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information, Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney, December 6, 2010

Don't Ask; Don't Tell Report, November 30, 2010

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, June 2010

The Nuclear Weapons Effects National Enterprise from The Joint Defense Science Board (DSB)/Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Task Force

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