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.
Adm. Mike Mullen likes to point out that there's a lot to worry about in the world today — not just the war in Iraq, not just Islamic extremists.
Bitter divisions over the Iraq war, particularly on Capitol Hill, led the Bush administration to change course and replace Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a grim Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.