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Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed frustration Wednesday with the pace of government work to heal the mental wounds of war.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says he's extremely concerned by last week's deadly bombings in Baghdad.
Iraqi authorities say a car bomb has killed two police officers and injured eight civilians west of Baghdad.
The nation's top military officer warned Monday that the deaths of Afghan civilians caught up in U.S. combat operations could cripple President Barack Obama's revamped strategy for the seven-year-old war. "I believe that each time we do that, we put our strategy in jeopardy," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. "We cannot succeed ... in Afghanistan by killing Afghan civilians."
Dick Cheney made clear Sunday he'd rather follow firebrand broadcaster Rush Limbaugh than former Joint Chiefs chairman Colin Powell into political battle over the future of the Republican Party.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview broadcast Friday that he was "extremely concerned" about the Taliban's recent moves closer to Pakistan's capital of Islamabad.
Thousands of police patrolled Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, a national holiday meant to celebrate the victory of guerrilla fighters over the Soviet-backed Communist regime that controlled the country until 1992.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff toured a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border Friday but said there are no plans to send troops there as some politicians are seeking.
The chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff says violence can be expected to rise in Afghanistan in the next few months as the United States increases its combat presence there.
A top Pentagon official on Monday dismissed North Korea's rocket launch as a failure— both technologically and as an effort to market its missiles to other countries. "Would you buy from somebody that had failed three times in a row and never been successful?" Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that the United States will be asking its allies for civilian help in Afghanistan during this weekend's NATO summit.
A NATO soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan, where six civilians were also wounded Wednesday in a bomb blast while traveling on a road close to the military alliance's main base in southern Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama was briefed Saturday by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen about the drug wars in Mexico and wanted to know how the United States can help.
Strained by repeated war tours, persistent terrorist threats and instability around the globe, there is a significant risk the U.S. military may not be able to respond quickly and fully to new crises, a classified Pentagon assessment has concluded.
As the Bush administration works in its final days to cement its legacy, one of the leading architects of the Iraq war acknowledged Tuesday that he'd change some of the military advice he gave at the time, if he could.
A suicide car bomber struck a governor's compound north of the Afghan capital on Monday while U.S. troops were inside, officials said. The blast killed two Afghan civilians and wounded two American soldiers.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday praised Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' sense of honor at his trial on corruption charges, calling his reputation for honesty and integrity "sterling" in the quarter-century they've known each other. "As we say in the infantry, this is a guy you take on a long patrol," said the retired four-star Army general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing more U.S. troops home from the war, a dramatic shift from the administration's once-ironclad unwillingness to talk about any kind of deadline or timetable.
Iraqi ground forces should become proficient by mid-2009, possibly as early as April, an Army general told Congress on Wednesday.
The U.S. military's top uniformed officer told an audience of Army troops Wednesday the unpopular "stop loss" policy won't end anytime soon, and he predicted a small rise in the number of troops forced to serve past their re-enlistment or retirement dates.
Iran is ratcheting up its support for militias in Iraq, providing them with newly manufactured weapons and bringing them across the border to receive training from members of Tehran's elite Republican Guard, U.S. military officials said Friday.
Barack Obama says if elected president he won't require that his appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff support allowing gays to serve openly in the military.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held talks Tuesday with Pakistan's army chief, whose troops have been battling a growing insurgency along the border with Afghanistan.
The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects has been "pretty damaging" to the image of the United States.
Army captains who represent the military's future pelted the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with blunt questions Tuesday about the strain of long war deployments.
When Gitmo Was (Relatively) Good - washingtonpost.comIn his first week in office, President Obama signed an executive order that would shut down the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.
Is Afghanistan going to be Obama's Iraq? The US could find itself isolated as the conflict goes on President Barack Obama is facing warnings that the US risks repeating some of its errors in Iraq as the new administration turns its focus to Afghanistan, where Nato forces are engaged in a conflict which has already lasted longer than the Second World War.
Marines Propose Iraq Withdrawal, Shift to Afghanistan in '09 The U.S. Marine Corps is proposing to completely withdraw from Iraq later this year and shift 20,000 Marines to Afghanistan, boosting the Obama administration's plan to devote significant new resources to the Afghan war.
Top US defence official on way to India, says Robert GatesThe United States has sent its top defence official to India to find out the culprit behind the Mumbai terror attacks that had claimed around 200 lives, including Americans, last week.
Powell Endorses Obama - Swampland - TIMEThe endorsement by Colin Powell of Barack Obama as the best choice to lead the country through challenges at home and abroad marks what could be a turning point in the campaign.
For years, observers with long military experience have criticized the use of insufficient forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and many have cited this inadequacy as one of the reasons why success there, however defined, is taking so long to achieve.
US Military Chief Warns Soliders to Stay Out of PoliticsThe chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has written an unusual open letter to all those in uniform, warning them to stay out of politics as the nation approaches a presidential election in which the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will be a central, and certainly divisive, issue.
Joint Chiefs: Change Course, Start Draft Or Lose ArmyIn testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, Army Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody sternly rebuked all those who've been blowing sunshine and spreading baseless happy talk for five years with regard to the war in Iraq.
Galloway column: Asking too much of too fewMullen told the junior officers that his service dates back to the Vietnam War, and he remembers vividly how our military was broken at the end of that war, and how hard it was to repair the damage. He said he doesn't want to see the current wars break the force again.
US militarism threatens to unleash regional conflagrationThese threats are not being made under conditions in which Washington has succeeded, either in Iraq or in Afghanistan, in suppressing popular resistance and installing viable puppet regimes.
Here's Why the US Might Not Attack IranSeveral good reasons why the U.S. probably won't attack Iran (Including some strong resistance from many in the military).
Bush To Lie To Nation In Primetime Address TonightJust a reminder that tonight at 9:00 p.m. EDT, George W. Bush will address the nation, "to ask Americans to stop and take a fresh look," at Iraq.
Sorry, Mr. President, you're all out of troops.President George W. Bush's behavior gets more baffling every day. Most leaders in his predicament would be recalibrating their rhetoric, seeking to alter expectations, so that the inevitable drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq won't appear to be a defeat.
Bush left with few options, even fewer chances for success in Iraq WASHINGTON — One way to look at the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq released this week is to review what it describes as the best-case scenario.
Prospective Joint Chief Mullen concedes Iraq War has undermined US credibility Slow progress in Iraq is undermining U.S. credibility and emboldening Iran's regional ambitions, says President Bush's nominee to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Head Of Joint Chiefs Refused To Quit VoluntarilyWASHINGTON (AP) -- In his first public comments on the Bush administration's surprise decision to replace him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace disclosed that he had turned down an offer to voluntarily retire rather than be forced out.
General Peter Pace To Step Down As Joint Chiefs HeadWASHINGTON, June 8 — Gen.
Top General Defends Underestimation Of US Casualities In Iraq"When you take a look at the life of a nation and all that's required to keep us free, we had more than 3,000 Americans murdered on 11 September, 2001.
At : Bush Wants a War Czar: Will Congress Give Him One?Bush Wants a War Czar: Will Congress Give Him One?
Gen.Peter Pace:"Dont Ask Dont Tell"or else !..if you join the military and gay, you keep it to yourself or find a different calling..period.The general gave his personal and imhho professional opinion.Thing is while in uniform that's a very,very dangerous thin line to tread,take off that uniform things change,that's the …
Gen. Pace: they "don't have a clue how democracy works"A top Pentagon leader weighed in yesterday on the war debate and appeared to undercut the argument advanced by the White House and many GOP lawmakers that a congressional debate challenging the Bush plan would hurt troop morale.
Former Reagan Secretary " More Deception from the War Criminal""By Paul Craig Roberts
General Wants Gay Ban LiftedIn an op-ed published in Tuesday's New York Times, John M. Shalikashvili, retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says Congress should give "serious reconsideration" to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the ban on openly lesbian, gay and bisexual military personnel.
Senators to Bush: Stay out of IranWASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's warnings to Iran and Syria to not interfere in Iraq and the arrest of six Iranians in Iraq by U.S. troops raised eyebrows Thursday on Capitol Hill, where senators warned Bush against widening the nearly four-year-old war.
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