Mullen: Iran has fissile materials for bomb

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.

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Mullen comfortable with Obama's Iraq timetable

The top U.S. military official says he's comfortable with the president's decision on a troop pullout timetable from Iraq.

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Mullen: No more than 30K new troops in Afghanistan

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."

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Mullen: Military's recent focus shorts other areas

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.

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Mullen: Cash crunch threatens US security

The nation's top military officer says the global financial crisis is threatening U.S. security options abroad.

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Mullen says might isn't always right

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.

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Mullen to call plays for Florida in BCS title game

Newly hired Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen has decided to stay with top-ranked Florida through the national championship game.

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Mullen says defense overspending must stop

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.

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Mississippi State introduces Dan Mullen as coach

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.

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Joint Chiefs head says war stresses may be growing

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.

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Troop withdrawal timetable concerns Pentagon chief

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."

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Joint Chiefs chairman: Security gains holding

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.

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Joint Chiefs to Give Own Troop Cut View

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.

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Mullen Gets Blunt Questions About Iraq

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.

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Joint Chiefs Nominee a Pragmatist

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.

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Pace to Lose Post As Joint Chiefs Head

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.

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One 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.

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WASHINGTON — 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.

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While 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.

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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?

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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.

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Mullen 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.

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While 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 …

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America'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.

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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.

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Dennis 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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