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The Pentagon's top military officer says 16,000 troops have received their orders for Afghanistan since President Barack Obama announced his new war strategy.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says President Barack Obama's new surge-and-endgame strategy in Afghanistan will help military forces find a better focus for their mission.
Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen has been reprimanded by the Southeastern Conference for criticizing the replay official who worked the Bulldogs' game against Florida.
It used to be Dan Mullen's job to build Tim Tebow up. Now, the Mississippi State coach's task is to tear down the Florida quarterback.
Peg Mullen, an author and former Iowa farm wife who hounded the U.S. military to find the truth about her son's death in Vietnam, has died. She was 92.
The U.S. military is bungling its outreach to the Muslim world and squandering good will by failing to live up to its promises, the nation's highest-ranking military officer wrote Friday.
President Barack Obama's top military adviser says Iran's objective is to obtain nuclear weapons — and that threatens the region.
The top U.S. military official says the Pentagon is working to meet President Barack Obama's one-year deadline to close the Guantanamo prison for suspected terrorists.
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.
Homelessness, family strains and psychological problems among returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will persist in the U.S. for generations to come, the top U.S. military officer said Thursday.
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.
The top U.S. military official said Sunday that Iran has sufficient fissile material for a nuclear weapon, declaring it would be a "very, very bad outcome" should Tehran move forward with a bomb.
The top U.S. military official says he's comfortable with the president's decision on a troop pullout timetable from Iraq.
No more than an estimated 30,000 additional troops will be sent to Afghanistan as the U.S. ramps up forces there, the nation's top military officer told soldiers Monday. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen also called U.S. efforts in Iraq a success, even though "we're not done."
The nation's top military officer says America's focus on Iraq and Afghanistan has hampered its ability to de-escalate crises elsewhere and solve problems in other parts of the world.
The nation's top military officer says the global financial crisis is threatening U.S. security options abroad.
The nation's top military officer says it's too easy to hand off foreign policy problems to the well-organized, well-funded Pentagon, but that diplomacy is sometimes best left to diplomats.
Newly hired Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen has decided to stay with top-ranked Florida through the national championship game.
The top U.S. military officer says the Pentagon cannot afford continued cost overruns and is hinting that some weapons systems may be cut or scaled back under President-elect Barack Obama.
Florida offensive coordinator Dan Mullen was introduced as the new football coach at Mississippi State on Thursday to the cheers of dozens of fans on campus.
Stress on U.S. troops from repeated combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan is "extraordinary" and may be worsening even as fighting eases in Iraq, the military's top officer says.
The Pentagon's top military officer said Sunday a specific time frame for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq could jeopardize political and economic progress, leading to "dangerous consequences."
Iraq appears on track to establishing sustainable security — a key step toward withdrawing U.S. troops — the top U.S. military officer said Monday after visiting the newly quiet Sadr City section of the capital.
The Pentagon's top generals and admirals will make their own assessment for President Bush on whether to continue pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq in the second half of the year — independent of what Bush's commander in Baghdad recommends, the top U.S. military officer said Friday.
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.
Transcript of Administration Officials Under Senate Questioning Related to Afghanistan StrategySo Secretary Gates, I want to ask you if I -- as I read your words today, if I'm correct in concluding that what will definitely begin in July of 2011 is a transfer of security responsibility to the Afghans, but may not include immediately a withdrawal of our forces from Afghanis …
Obama's Afghanistan Speech: How it Sounded to Afghans"[Mr. Obama] may not be convincing the normal people or the Taliban, but by saying these things in the speech, this gives to the politicians, scholars, and spiritual leaders a free hand now.
Obama to Deploy 30,000 Troops to AfghanistanPresident Barack Obama is to announce that he is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, to deploy within six months, US officials have said. More Articles
The American Friends of Baluchistan has warned U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Glen Mullen and Foreign Relations Committee chair John F.
Obama Is Considering Strategy Shift in Afghan WarWASHINGTON — President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
Obama's Afghan strategy: A blank pagePresident Barack Obama says he is waiting on making a decision about sending more soldiers to Afghanistan until he has "absolute clarity about what the strategy is going to be."
Advisers to Obama Divided on Size of Afghan ForceWASHINGTON — The military's anticipated request for more troops to combat the insurgency in Afghanistan has divided senior advisers to President Obama as they try to determine the proper size and mission of the American effort there, officials said Thursday.
Pentagon Worries Led to Command ChangeThere was no formal agenda. McKiernan, a silver-haired former armor officer, began with a brief battlefield update. Then Gates and Mullen began asking about reconstruction and counternarcotics operations.
More US deaths in Afghanistan next year: MullenThere could be a major spike in U.S. deaths and injuries in Afghanistan next year, the top U.S. military commander revealed at the National Press Club in Washington DC.
For the second time in three years, North Korea has tested a nuclear device, to the great consternation and teeth-gashing of just about everybody.
Top U.S. Military Officer Pushes Guantanamo ClosingChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen supports closing Guantanamo Bay prison. He stated, " 'Well, I've advocated for a long time now that it needs to be closed.' "
For those who follow the war, the news was startling: after less than a year on the job, LTG David McKiernan, the commander of America's effort in Afghanistan, was resigning from the post.
Obama warns Netanyahu: Don't surprise me with Iran strike U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran.
ISI Gained from Mumbai Attacks, writes MJ AkbarOne of India's foremost intellectuals who has an insight on Pakistan politics, deplores that the premier spy service Inter Services Intelligence seems to have convinced Admiral Mike Mullen that Kashmir was at the root cause of terrorism against India.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Is Gloomy on Afghanistan - NYTimes.comWASHINGTON — With security and economic conditions in Afghanistan already in dire straits, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that the situation there would probably only worsen next year.
Mullen Urges Calm as U.S. Deals with Pakistani AlliesWhile things are tense and dangerous in Pakistan, "that doesn't mean the sky is falling," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen said today.
Pakistan Daily: Marriott Hotel atrocity linked to US Embassy, Marines & unscanned boxes After the blast, fires broke out on the US-dominated 5th floor - witnesses reveal prior unloading of unscanned steel boxes that went to the 5th floor guarded by US Marines. 61 people murdered by US state terrorism?
Admiral Mullen on Afghanistan: "We cannot kill our way to victory ..."The U.S. military conceded it was not winning the battle against an increasingly deadly insurgency in Afghanistan and said Wednesday it would revise its strategy for the region to include militant safe havens in neighboring Pakistan.
U.S. 'running out of time' on Afghanistan, Joint Chiefs leader saysMullen said the new strategy for Afghanistan must focus on more than just increasing troop strength. He noted that existing provincial reconstruction teams did not have enough agricultural, educational and judicial experts. The U.S.
U.S.-Pakistani Brainstorming on Border Violence - NYTimes.comWhile officials from the two allies offered few details on Wednesday about what was decided or even discussed at the meeting — including any new strategies, tactics, weapons or troop deployments — the star-studded list of participants and the extreme secrecy surrounding the t …
BBC NEWS | Middle East | US admiral urges caution on IranAmerica's top military officer has said opening up a new front in the Middle East through a strike on Iran would be "extremely stressful" for US forces.
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.
Love survivesDennis F. Shine, who grew up in Worcester, is told he exhibits the same mannerisms as his father. He was a year old when his father, Cpl. Dennis F. Shine Jr., 21, was killed in action in Vietnam on Aug. 19, 1969. Much of what Robert L.
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