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For Breaking Ranks on Gays, Mullen Is in Rare Company

WASHINGTON (Feb. 4) – Most military officers are taught to follow the apolitical lead of Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall, who wrote in 1941, "As to my political faith, I have never voted, my father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian." But Adm. Michael Mullen's stunning...

Leading Pundit on Gay Rights Sits In on Hearing

WASHINGTON (Feb. 2) – It isn't every day that the nation's top military leaders testify to Congress in favor of allowing gays to serve openly in the ranks. And so, like countless other celebrities who have made their way up Capitol Hill for a cause, the eponymous host of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" was on hand...

Reporter's Notebook: 7 Scenes From the Afghan Surge on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON (Dec. 2) - There was a sense of déjà vu all over again at the first in a series of Capitol Hill hearings on the Obama administration's new strategy in Afghanistan. "This is the second surge I'm up here defending," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee. A holdover from the Bush...

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Haqqani Network: Senators Want Group Added To Terrorist List

Two U.S. senators Wednesday urged the State Department to designate the al Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani network as a terrorist organization in the wake of several attacks against American and NATO facilities that top officials blame on the group.

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Petraeus Backs Obama's Afghanistan Plan But Says Drawdown Is More 'Aggressive' Than Military Wanted (VIDEO)

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told Congress Thursday that he backs President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw troops from the war, although it was a more "aggressive" drawdown than the military had advocated.

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Pentagon Discharged Hundreds Of Service Members Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' In Fiscal 2010: Report

The Pentagon discharged some 250 service members under the soon-to-be-defunct "don't ask, don't tell" policy in fiscal year 2010, according to numbers released by a group of gay troops and veterans, even though top brass ordered commanders to effectively stop enforcing the ban on openly gay troops during that time.

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Mike Mullen: U.S. Mission In Libya 'Limited', But No End In Sight

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen made the rounds of the morning talk shows on Sunday, and one of the main messages that emerged on Libya is that, right now, there just aren't many answers: how long the U.S. will stay involved, how long a no-fly zone will stay in place, and how much capacity the U.S....

Background on adm. michael mullen

Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen (born October 4, 1946) is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2011. Mullen previously served as the Navy's 28th Chief of Naval Operations from July 22, 2005 to September 29, 2007. He was only the third naval officer in Navy history to be appointed to four different four-star assignments; the others being the Commander, U.S.

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