The Pentagon's New Fighting Manual for Iraq
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The Pentagon issues a guidebook on fighting a counterinsurgency.
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The Pentagon asks for an estimated time for the U.S. occupation in Iraq
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The Bush administration is   concealing the level of violence against U.S. troops in Iraq   and the situation there is growing worse despite White House   and Pentagon claims of progress, journalist Bob Woodward said   in advance of a new book.
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Fourteen months ago, a 300-page Defense Department-sponsored research paper titled "Iraq Tribal Study: Al-Anbar Governorate" was completed and delivered to the Pentagon. That report -- put together by a distinguished group of retired military counterinsurgency specialists and academics, each with...
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The top US commander in Iraq complained to the Pentagon last winter that his supply situation was so poor that it threatened Army troops&#39; ability to fight, according to an official document that has surfaced only now.
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The Pentagon predicts that robots will be a major fighting force in the American military in less than a decade.
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The Japanese government approved a new edition of its key defense document which features more proactive use of force and deeper involvement of the self-defense-oriented troops
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The US army drafts a new manual, which puts as much emphasis on winning hearts and minds as it does on force.
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Documents captured from Iraqi insurgents indicate some of the recent deadly attacks against U.S. helicopters stemmed from a strategic plan to down coalition aircraft, The New York Times reported in its Sunday edition.
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The Pentagon, concerned over a bold  and growing insurgency in Iraq, is sending a retired Army  general to Iraq to review U.S. military operations and the  training of Iraqi forces, defense officials said on Friday.
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U.S. Army officials said on Monday  they were pressing ahead with three new aircraft programs and  stepping up pilot training to reflect lessons learned in Iraq.
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U.S. troops from Iraq are being trained by the Israeli army in urban and guerrilla warfare tactics at a military base in Israel, a local newspaper said on Wednesday.
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The US military publishes its first manual on fighting counter-insurgencies in 20 years, drawing on Iraq.
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Gen. David H. Petraeus, the new U.S. commander in Iraq, is assembling a small band of warrior-intellectuals -- including a quirky Australian anthropologist, a Princeton economist who is the son of a former U.S. attorney general and a military expert on the Vietnam War sharply critical of its top commanders -- in an eleventh-hour effort to reverse the downward trend in the Iraq war....
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Conditions that could lead to a   civil war exist in Iraq, the Pentagon said in a new report on   Friday, as the "core conflict" has changed into one pitting   Sunni Muslims against Shi'ites, with the Sunni Arab insurgency   overshadowed.
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The Pentagon said Wednesday it has created a new Web site to help veterans who face difficulty returning to their old jobs or finding new ones after deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has signed on for another tour of duty at the Pentagon - in military jargon, &quot;re-upping.