U.S. to redeploy troops
President Bush on Monday unveiled a plan to reposition the nation's military into a "more agile and more flexible force," moving 70,000 troops from World War II and Cold War-era...
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Navy to probe how Army runs detention sites
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has ordered the Navy's inspector general to investigate prisoner operations and intelligence gathering practices conducted chiefly by the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new...
Rumsfeld postpones decision on Boeing
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday deferred for six months a final decision on whether the Air Force will acquire 100 Boeing 767 aerial refueling tankers, saying he will wait...
Prison leaders had past woes
As the prisoner abuse scandal has fallen to finger-pointing, two men are taking the brunt of the blame for the lurid stories coming from Iraq: Spec. Charles Graner Jr., the...
Libya to end nuclear program
After nine months of secret negotiations with the U.S. and Britain, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi agreed Friday to abandon plans to develop chemical and nuclear weapons and to open his...
Clark’s career a study in contradiction
Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark is a political newcomer, but he's betting that his 37-year military career will give him a distinct advantage over nine other Democratic hopefuls and President...
Attack adds new twist to violence
The bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday confronts the 145,000 U.S. troops inside Iraq and their military leaders in Washington with a new, unwelcome security concern, suggesting...
Experts raise complacency alert
A recorded statement reputedly from a senior Al Qaeda leader urging followers to attack Americans added to widespread jitters Wednesday and Pentagon officials confirmed they had increased the military's terror...
Troop role shifts; so do numbers
U.S. military officials are basing their postwar plan for Iraq on the same flexibility that was successful in winning the war, as they try to determine just how large a...
Swift attack seen as giant military leap
A flexible U.S. battle plan and waves of precision air strikes allowed U.S. troops and armor to cover great distances with great speed, making the war in Iraq go faster...