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Failure in Afghanistan would mean a Taliban takeover of the country and "have severe consequences for the United States and the world," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday as the Obama administration set out to sell its new war strategy on Capitol Hill. ...more
December 2, 2009
The Department of Defense is reopening the bitter competition for a $35 billion military aircraft program that likely would include replacing some of the 16 aging KC-135 tankers now flown out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. ...more
July 10, 2008
Even when troop levels eventually start to drop in Iraq and Afghanistan, special operations forces will remain, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday night. ...more
May 22, 2008
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