MSNBC is reporting that according to Pentagon officials, General Stanley McChrystal has been relieved of his command. The President is going to address that nation from the Rose Garden at 1:30 pm. UPDATE 1: MSNBC is now reporting that David Petraeus will take over command of the Afghanistan war.
This will be the dominating news story for the next week: The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain his controversial comments about colleagues in a recent interview, an Obama administration official said Tuesday. The official says Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who has since issued an apology for his comments, has […]
Hopefully Obama will take a look at this once he takes office: The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. The long-planned shift in the Defense Department‘s […]
Truly disturbing statistics out by the Army today: Pentagon officials say there were fewer Army suicides last year than they had feared. But it was still the highest number in almost two decades. Two defense officials said Thursday that 108 troops committed suicide in 2007, the most since 1990. The officials spoke on condition of […]
Or perhaps the White House isn’t planning that: After smothering efforts by war critics in Congress to drastically cut U.S. troop levels in Iraq, President Bush plans to ask lawmakers next week to approve another massive spending measure — totaling nearly $200 billion — to fund the war through next year, Pentagon officials said. If […]
Associated Press: Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town, as the ousted leader, trembling and defiant, shouted “God is great!” As he, his half brother and another senior official in his regime were convicted and sentenced to […]
For a President and Secretary of Defense who always talk so highly of their working relationship with the military, I wonder how they will respond to this: The Army’s top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders last month after protesting to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the service could not […]
This is swiftboating gone too far: A U.S. Marine suspected in the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will sue Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record) for libel after the war critic made public comments about the case and accused the serviceman of murder, attorneys said on Wednesday. Lawyers representing Staff Sgt. Frank […]
The White House is now expressing “concern” over the story that our military is paying Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by U.S. soldiers. “We’re very concerned about the reports. We are seeking more information from the Pentagon,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. He said Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]