Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a holdover from the Bush administration, will remain in his Cabinet post for at least another year, his spokesman said today. ...more

January 7, 2010

Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. ...more

March 19, 2009

The Obama administration vowed today to keep up military surveillance in waters off China and protested to China about what it called harassment of an American ship doing that work last week. The Pentagon charged that a Chinese intelligence gathering vessel and four others "shadowed and maneuvered dangerously close" to the USNS Impeccable surveillance ship in the South China Sea on Sunday, then threw obstacles in the water as it tried to leave. ...more

March 9, 2009

pentagon says releasing Guantanamo prisoners may give them chance to hit U.S. again ...more

January 26, 2009

President Barack Obama, in a meeting with his top national security advisers Wednesday, asked the Pentagon to do whatever additional planning necessary to "execute a responsible military drawdown from Iraq." ...more

January 22, 2009

The United States officially responded Thursday to Iraqi proposals for changes in the draft security pact that would keep American troops here for three more years. ...more

November 7, 2008

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering whether to revise the Pentagon's own policy that prevents most oil and gas drilling within military training areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off of Florida. ...more

August 6, 2008

Top Pentagon leaders are expected to recommend soon that Defense Secretary Robert Gates order hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next month or so, according to a senior military official. ...more

July 24, 2008

After decades of denials, the Chinese have acknowledged burying an American prisoner of war in China, telling the United States that a teenage soldier captured in the Korean War died a week after he "became mentally ill," according to documents provided to The Associated Press. ...more

June 20, 2008

The confessed mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America said a courtroom artist at his arraignment Thursday made his nose look too big. ...more

June 6, 2008