Top U.S. General Balks at Key Intelligence Changes
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The chairman of the U.S. military's  Joint Chiefs of Staff has asked lawmakers to give less budget  authority to the national intelligence director than has been  proposed by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11  attacks and backed publicly by the White House.
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The Army and Marine Corps are planning to ask incoming Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Congress to approve permanent increases in personnel, as senior officials in both services assert that the nation's global military strategy has outstripped their resources.
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The U.S. military is weighing new directions for Iraq, including an even bigger troop buildup if President Bush thinks his "surge" strategy needs a further boost, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday.
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Two years after the nation's commando forces were given broad authority to attack terrorist networks, the elite units remain hampered by uncertainty over coordination, says the admiral chosen to head the U.S. Special Operations Command.
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If he knew now what he knew then, he might have made some different decisions before the start of the Iraq war in 2003, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters Friday.
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The Bush administration struggled Tuesday to explain what it knows about alleged Iranian interference in Iraq after the Pentagon's top general appeared to contradict a recently released military dossier on the subject.
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The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.
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The director of national intelligence, who could be named this week, will try to meld disparate agencies.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cautioned against rushing to restructure the nation&#39;s intelligence services and General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said creation of a national intelligence director may ...
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The Defense Secretary pushes his generals to field a larger and more aggressive clandestine force
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The U.S. intelligence community yesterday provided a mixed picture of the security situation in Iraq but cautioned that a drawdown of U.S. forces there and a scaled-back mission for the remaining U.S. troops "would erode security gains achieved thus far."
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The top U.S. general in Iraq outlined plans Monday for the withdrawal of 30,000 troops by next summer, drawing praise from the White House but a chilly reception from anti-war Democrats.
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Leading Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged President Bush to consider changing the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, one week after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned against fascism and appeasement as he defended U.S. policies in Iraq.
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The defense secretary said today that it was valuable to hear concerns directly from troops, but he offered no changes.
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The former U.S. commander in Iraq issued an urgent plea to the Pentagon last winter for supplies, saying he was "unable to sustain readiness." In a memo obtained by the Washington Post, Army Lt.-Gen. Ricardo ...
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WASHINGTON Aug. 17, 2004  Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld conceded Tuesday that a new, powerful intelligence director could bring &quot;some modest&quot; improvements to efforts to safeguard the nation but warned that any changes must not hurt the flow of ...
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Donald Rumsfeld, if he stays as  Pentagon chief, faces challenges not only in taming Iraq's  insurgency but in modernizing the U.S. military and fielding a  viable missile defense system, officials and analysts say.