▼ Author Community Vote 134 days ago Greg Jaffe U.S. Plans to Shift Forces to Populated Areas of Afghanistan - — BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top military officer in Afghanistan, has told his commanders to pull forces out of sparsely populated areas where U.S. troops have fought bloody battles with the Taliban … 189 days ago Greg Jaffe Gates Pressures Kurdish Leaders to Cooperate in Iraq - — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Wednesday that the relatively low levels of violence in Iraq and improved cooperation of late between U.S. and Iraqi forces have raised the possibility that commanders might be able to … 303 days ago Greg Jaffe 2006 Israel-Lebanon War Looms Large in Pentagon Debate on Future - — Leaders Divided on Whether to Focus On Conventional or Irregular Combat — A war that ended three years ago and involved not a single U.S. soldier has become the subject of an increasingly heated debate inside the Pentagon …