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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - America is the light of freedom to the world, Secretary of State Colin Powell said today, and sometimes, Americans must fight to keep that light lit. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - President Bush today saluted the efforts of U.S. Coast Guard members serving at home and overseas and offered words of hope to Iraqis who've been under Saddam Hussein's heel for more than 20 years. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - More than 300,000 coalition troops are deployed in support of combat operations, with more than a third of those inside Iraq, defense officials said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - Defense officials want to make families of prisoners of war aware that what they say may hurt their loved ones. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - American and coalition troops in Iraq will be watchful to mitigate any further enemy suicide attack attempts, the U.S. military's top officer recently told British interviewer David Frost. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - Many children may not understand the principles and politics behind America's war with Iraq or the war on terrorism, but nonetheless they see images and hear news in the media. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - Since the beginning of action in Iraq, there has been an increase in attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan, Combined Joint Task Force- 180 officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 - Coalition forces are bringing all powers to bear on the Iraqi regime, Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, vice director of operations for U.S. Central Command said today during a briefing in Qatar. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 30, 2003 - Army Gen. Tommy Franks said coalition forces are not "paused" and are not suffering from a lack of supplies. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 30, 2003 - "Where is Saddam?" Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asked today during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 29, 2003 - U.S. and coalition aircraft yesterday blasted nine meeting places favored by Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party officials and paramilitary chiefs. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 29, 2003 - Four U.S. 3rd Infantry Division soldiers were killed in Iraq today by an apparent suicide bomber at a road checkpoint near Najaf. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 29, 2003 - The remains of American troops have been discovered in southern Iraq near where paramilitary forces loyal to Saddam Hussein have been accused by the Pentagon of executing U.S. service members after they'd surrendered. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - Press reports about the American public sending thousands of e-mails in support of troops are only partly correct, according to Navy Cmdr. Rudolph "Rudy" Brewington. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - Two wounded American fighting men yesterday described their experiences in Iraq to interviewers -- including how some Iraqi combatants don't play by the rules of war. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - In the spring of 2001, Vince Farrell was en route home from Boston when he heard on his car radio that his former high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., was having its 29th reunion. He decided to attend. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., March 28, 2003 - Ninety-one-year-old Julie Stege was a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl trying to dance and sing her way to stardom on Broadway when World War II broke out. Then, suddenly, patriotism struck her. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - Coalition forces in Afghanistan launched another battalion-sized operation March 27, this time in the Kohe Safi Mountains near Bagram Air Base, Combined Joint Task Force180 officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - President Bush today praised military veterans for their past service and saluted the current generation of troops for their bravery and performance so far in Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator who doesn't care a whit about the Iraqi people, and he is only concerned with how they and the country's principal natural resource, oil, may serve him. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld gave details of Saddam Hussein's death squads, during a Pentagon press briefing today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 - Coalition forces have seen indications that Iraqi units have been given the freedom to use chemical weapons, Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - The United States has absolutely no desire to stay in Iraq any longer than necessary, the U.S. military's senior officer told the Arab world today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - Justifying the president's request for $75 billion in emergency funding for the cost of war in Iraq and the global war on terrorism, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told House and Senate Appropriations Committees today that "whatever the cost, it is worth it." |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has a three-word answer to why more Iraqi troops aren't laying down their arms and surrendering to coalition forces: Saddam's death squads. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - "Slowly, but surely, the grip of terror around the throats of the Iraqi people is being loosened," President Bush said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - Iraqi forces loyal to Saddam Hussein have executed coalition troops and committed other "disgusting" war crimes, U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace said March 26. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - Saddam Hussein's regime is forcing men to fight by threatening children, U.S. Central Command officials in Qatar said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - Coalition air forces struck repeatedly at Iraqi Republican Guard formations March 26, defense officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 27, 2003 - Several hundred "Sky Soldiers" of the 173rd Airborne Brigade opened a new front in a Kurdish-controlled area of northern Iraq, defense officials announced. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 26, 2003 - The military's casualty assistance officers do their best to comfort and assist the next-of-kin of service members who've been wounded, killed or missing in action. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 26, 2003 - The National Guard Bureau's 32 Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams have gained new capabilities since last summer, an expert on the teams' capabilities explained today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 26, 2003 - Six days into the campaign against Iraq and the coalition progress has been "phenomenal," Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 26, 2003 - For the past week, the world has had unprecedented access to the combat zone in Iraq. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 26, 2003 - Moving to a new school. Making new friends. Those are just a few of the stressors that plague teenagers and children of military families more often than their civilian peers. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 26, 2003 - The Iraqi regime has "shown its true colors" in recent days with brutality and disregard for international rules of warfare, a U.S. Central Command official said today. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., March 26, 2003 - More than 141,000 members of the Army and Air National Guard were mobilized, placed on alert or identified for possible mobilization by March 24, five days after Operation Iraqi Freedom began, National Guard Bureau officials have reported. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 26, 2003 - Dictator Saddam Hussein's regime is "evil at its heart," President Bush declared today, as he pointed to several alleged instances of Iraqi disregard for internationally recognized rules of war. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - United States and international relief workers are poised to enter the Umm Qasr port to address acute shortages of public drinking water and unsafe sanitary conditions in southern Iraq, particularly in the city of Basra to the northwest. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - After five days of ground combat, coalition forces are more than 200 miles into Iraq and poised to take on forces defending Baghdad, DoD leaders said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - Right now, deployed at an undisclosed location, the 405th Air Expeditionary Wing is in what Col. James Kowalski calls "surge operations." That means that all the unit's aircraft, primarily B-1 bombers, are flying at rates higher than what would normally be planned in time of war. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - Military commanders of the future will employ high-tech sensing equipment to detect the strength and positions of enemy forces, including those attempting to hide from prying electronic "eyes." |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - All of Iraq is a battlefield and coalition forces are challenging the heart of Iraqi resistance around Baghdad, Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart said today in Qatar. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - Coalition aircraft flew more than 1,500 sorties in the continuing air war against the regime in Iraq on March 24, coalition officials in the region said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - Coalition forces conducted another air assault in the Sami Ghar Mountains of Afghanistan today, Combined Joint Task Force-180 officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 25, 2003 - The president said today his $74.7 billion wartime supplemental budget request is urgent and "directly related to winning this war and to securing the peace that will follow this war." |
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| WASHINGTON, March 24, 2003 - The defense portion of the fiscal 2003 emergency supplemental budget request is set at $62.6 billion. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 24, 2003 - The Defense Department is committed to keeping the American people informed and involved in the global war against terrorism, according to Brent Krueger, public liaison director in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 24, 2003 - The Iraqi regime is flouting the laws of war and the Geneva Conventions, said Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke at the news conference today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 24, 2003 - The U.S. military's top general said he is proud of the performance of American and coalition troops, as they continue to battle Saddam Hussein's forces from the land, sea and sky. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 24, 2003 - An Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crashed near Ghazni, Afghanistan, March 23, killing all aboard, said Combined Joint Task Force-180 officials in Bagram. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 24, 2003 - Two American Apache helicopter crewmen are missing in action as coalition forces continue to pound Iraqi Republican Guard units ringing Baghdad, Army Gen. Tommy Franks said today in Qatar. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 24, 2003 - Operation Iraqi Freedom "is all a part of the war on terrorism," U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said here March 23. |
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| CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar, March 23, 2003 - The U.S.-led coalition to disarm the Iraqi regime is poised to open massive channels of humanitarian assistance for the Iraqi people. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 23, 2003 - Today was a tough day for American forces in Iraq, but coalition forces still made good progress on the ground, air and sea, said Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid, deputy commander of the Combined Forces Command. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 23, 2003 - Some U.S. soldiers in Iraq are "unaccounted for," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told CNN today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 23, 2003 - President Bush is pleased with progress the military is making in the early stages of the war to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, he said during a press availability at the White House. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 23, 2003 - Coalition air forces have flown more than 6,000 sorties to date in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, said Air Force Maj. Gen. Daniel Leaf today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 23, 2003 - Coalition forces are encountering greater Iraqi resistance as they move closer to Baghdad, U.S. Central Command officials said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 23, 2003 - U.S. and coalition forces have made great gains so far during Operation Iraqi Freedom, but the going will likely get harder in coming days. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 23, 2003 - Twelve American soldiers are unaccounted for following actions around the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, U.S. Central Command officials said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 22, 2003 - DoD officials today offered no timeframe when U.S. and coalition military operations in Iraq would conclude, but they emphasized that time was running out for Saddam Hussein and his regime. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 22, 2003 - U.S. troops yesterday attacked a terrorist complex located in northern Iraq, Army Gen. Tommy Franks said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 22, 2003 - U.S. and coalition forces will liberate Iraq, end Saddam Hussein's regime and find and confiscate the dictator's weapons of mass destruction, Operation Iraqi Freedom's senior military commander said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 22, 2003 - President Bush today praised the efforts of U.S. and coalition service members in Iraq, but cautioned that the campaign may take some time to conclude. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., March 21, 2003 - Since the Revolutionary War, women's military participation has evolved from exclusion, to traditional jobs such as clerical and nurses, and to nontraditional occupations such as fighter pilot or astronaut, according to Charles S. Abell. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - Before testifying before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations March 20, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said, "our thoughts and prayers are with the men and women overseas fighting in the latest front in the global war on terrorism to protect all Americans and make the world a safer place." |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - About 700 coalition aircraft flew missions against more than 100 targets in Iraq on March 20, said Defense officials. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - Faced with the threat by North Korea of a nuclear warhead reaching the United States, senior Pentagon officials told the House Armed Services Committee March 20 they are moving forward with a billion-dollar missile defense system. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - Operation Valiant Strike continues in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, Combined Joint Task Force-180 officials said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - (Editor's note: DoD released the names of the American casualties at 5 p.m. March 21.) |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - Over the past month, coalition aircraft have dropped more than 15 million leaflets over Iraq urging soldiers not to fight and telling civilians how to protect themselves. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - American ground forces are 100 miles inside Iraq and driving on Baghdad, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said today during a Pentagon news conference. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - At Fort Stewart, Ga., home of the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), heavy tanks coexist with endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers. The San Clemente Island Range complex in California is home to the even more endangered San Clemente Island loggerhead shrike -- and a Navy ship-to-shore live-fire range. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - A Marine helicopter crash is believed to have killed at least 16 coalition troops in northern Kuwait just hours before a major ground offensive kicked off in the Persian Gulf. Defense Department officials confirmed the Army's 3rd Infantry Division rolled into southern Iraq late March 20. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - Defense of the American people is primary among the goals and objectives of U.S. actions in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said during a Pentagon press conference today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 21, 2003 - The commander in chief today saluted U.S. service members involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom and members of Congress for endorsing a resolution supporting those troops. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 20, 2003 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today praised American troops deployed overseas to disarm and oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, noting that their efforts support a just cause. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 20, 2003 - When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld started talking about the need to safeguard classified information, the studio staff flashed a World War II poster on the television. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 20, 2003 - U.S. Central Command exercised "flexibility" in attacking a senior Iraqi leadership compound last night, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 20, 2003 - Iraq has fired surface-to- surface missiles at U.S. forces based in Kuwait, DoD officials said this morning. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 20, 2003 - Coalition forces in Afghanistan launched another offensive in the global war on terror, DoD officials said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - Coalition aircraft bombed a series of Iraqi targets today in response to Iraqi anti- aircraft artillery firing on the allied aircraft. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - American troops deployed overseas for the war against Iraq are much better equipped to deal with possible chemical or biological attacks than their Gulf War predecessors, DoD experts said on Capitol Hill today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - The symbolism couldn't be better: The new Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense is located in the section of the Pentagon destroyed in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - The number of countries willing to be part of disarming Saddam Hussein gives lie to the charge that U.S. action is unilateral, according to State Department officials. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - Since Wilbur and Orville Wright took flight on Dec. 17, 1903, women have made significant contributions to aviation in the United States and around the world. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - The U.S. military uses the Internet as an electronic conduit to quickly disseminate information. From a security perspective, however, stretches of that worldwide information highway contain potholes. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - With President Bush's deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq fast approaching, coalition aircraft dropped almost 2 million leaflets over Iraq March 19, U.S. Central Command officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - In the first 24 hours of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, coalition military aircraft "struck more targets than were struck in all of 1942 and 1943 by 8th Air Force during the Combined Bomber Offensive," an Air Force officer said in the Pentagon today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 - Operations to disarm Iraq have begun, President Bush announced during a speech to America tonight. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 18, 2003 - As President Bush delivered the final option to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Monday evening, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge launched Operation Liberty Shield. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 18, 2003 - Entry deadline is April 30 to join the competition for a share of $50,000 in the 2003 Newman's Own Award for Military Community Excellence. |
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| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 18, 2003 - An Alaska Army National Guard infantry scout who has more heart than body has proven to himself and his older brother that he has what it takes to help keep America safe from terrorists and anyone else who would do it harm. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 18, 2003 - While much of the nation's focus has been on the prospect of war with Iraq, U.S. military forces in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom are still the target of hostilities. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 18, 2003 - U.S. military planners cannot allow chemical or biological attacks to stop operations. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 18, 2003 - The Defense Department today unveiled a billion dollar roadmap for unmanned aerial vehicles during the next 25 years. Plans call for developing joint interoperable UAVs that are capable of everything from surveillance to air strike. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 17, 2003 - President Bush will address the world tonight and issue a final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, the top American diplomat said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 17, 2003 - Iraq is playing the United Nations and some of America's friends on the Security Council like a fiddle, Secretary of State Colin Powell said during a March 16 appearance on ABC News' This Week show. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 17, 2003 - President Bush delivered an ultimatum that Saddam Hussein and his sons have 48 hours to leave Iraq. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 16, 2003 - Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press" cut right to the chase: "How close are we to war?" was the first question he asked Vice President Dick Cheney on today's edition of the news show. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 16, 2003 - Monday is the deadline for allowing diplomacy to find a solution to Iraq, President Bush said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 15, 2003 - "Bloody Friday." That's what Iraqi Kurds call the attack on Halabja, Iraq, on March 16, 1988. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 15, 2003 - President Bush today held up the March 16, 1988, chemical attack on the civilians of Halabja, Iraq, as a prime example of the evil Saddam Hussein perpetrates. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 14, 2003 - President Bush will travel to the Azores islands off the coast of Portugal this weekend to meet with several world leaders on the situation in Iraq, White House officials announced. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 14, 2003 - Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons to attack Iraqi radar sites southwest of Baghdad March 13, U.S. Central Command officials reported. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 14, 2003 - March 5 was a special patriotic day across the country and aboard Navy ships in the Arabian Gulf. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 14, 2003 - American service members training Free Iraqi Forces are impressed by the exiles' commitment to democracy and willingness to secure peace in their homeland. |
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| ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14, 2003 - Three winners announced today in the 2003 Armed Services YMCA Art Contest weaved flags into their drawings of their military families, while a fourth drew an American bald eagle as her centerpiece. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 14, 2003 - Pentagon officials showed pictures today from the 1991 Gulf War of an Iraqi tank completely destroyed by a 105 mm round made of depleted uranium. The round had pierced the tank's thick armor, leaving only a burned out shell. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - At the White House, they call it "phone diplomacy," and President Bush burned up the wires today consulting with allies worldwide. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - Two major changes effective immediately will make it easier for reserve component family members to receive health care coverage from the Defense Department when their sponsor is activated, the department's top doc said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - Many nongovernmental organizations from coast-to-coast are partnering with the military to support service members during the war against terrorism. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - U.S. policy toward Iraq has been shaped by a dozen years of defiance by Saddam Hussein and at least two presidential administrations, Secretary of State Colin Powell explained to some members of Congress today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - U.S. Special Forces soldiers came under fire in Afghanistan March 12, prompting a firefight that left five enemy dead, military officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - A veteran Central Intelligence Agency executive will head the Terrorist Threat Integration Center slated to start operations May 1. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - The Air National Guard's distance-learning programs are recognized as some of the most advanced within the Department of Defense. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - President Bush has issued an executive order establishing two military awards for actions in the global war on terrorism. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 - Advances in technology and changes in procedures are leading to improved health care for troops before, during and after deployments. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 12, 2003 - Navy Capt. (Dr.) David M. Brown, 43, was interred today at Arlington National Cemetery, the third of three space shuttle Columbia astronauts so honored in recent days. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 12, 2003 - History has shown that when democracies wait too long to confront dictators, more people die, said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. |
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| FORT LEE, Va., March 12, 2003 - Deployments are on the rise, Guard and Reserve personnel are being activated by the thousands, and the upheaval in the lives of military families can involve economic needs as well as emotional. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., March 12, 2003 - The Women's Memorial theater was packed with aging women pilot pioneers from World War II and their current-day counterparts for a private screening and reception for the film "Above & Beyond: 100 Years of Women in Aviation" here March 10. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 12, 2003 - Officials at Fort Drum, N.Y., are reporting today two soldiers survived the crash of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed on the post March 11. |
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| ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12, 2003 - Wrestlers and runners dominate the list of military Male and Female Athletes of the Year for 2002 announced here March 11. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 12, 2003 -- Anybody who goes against the massive space capability of the U.S. mil, March 12, 2003 - real-time situational awareness, real time battle management unimpeded." |
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| WASHINGTON, March 11, 2003 - With the Department of Homeland Security now a reality, resources are being provided to the state and local partners that assist the organization in safeguarding America, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said here today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 11, 2003 - "Free Iraqis" who have lived in the United States and other democratic countries will provide valuable liaison between local Iraqi government officials and U.S. officials overseeing the country after any potential conflict. |
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| FORT LEE, Va., March 11, 2003 - In one of the closest competitions ever, five commissaries instead of the usual four have been named winners of the Defense Commissary Agency's 2003 Best Commissary awards. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 11, 2003 - All service members have a right to gripe. Now they can do it right to the top. |
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| INCIRLIK AIR BASE, TURKEY, March 11, 2003 - What started out as a request for 48 hours of combat air patrols turned into six days of practically nonstop flying as Operation Northern Watch kept skies clear while a U.S. envoy met with Iraqi opposition leaders in northern Iraq. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 11, 2003 - Capturing al Qaeda terrorists and disarming Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein are both part of the war against global terrorism, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said here today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 11, 2003 - Saddam Hussein is "an accomplished deceiver" who will stop at nothing to "deceive the world and his own people," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in his Pentagon briefing today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 10, 2003 - The U.S. military is the best-trained, best-led and best-equipped force in the world, a senior defense official said today, and the American taxpayers deserve to see "just how professional that force is." |
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| WASHINGTON, March 10, 2003 - The items that Hans Blix reported as progress to the U.N. Security Council are the same items British Foreign Minister Jack Straw cites as examples of Iraqi noncooperation. |
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| ARLINGTON, Va., March 10, 2003 - After a nearly 40-year relationship with the Department of Defense, the National Communications System became part of the Department of Homeland Security March 5 during ceremonies at the Defense Information System Agency's Skyline 7 auditorium here. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 10, 2003 - The vast majority of DoD purchase and credit card holders don't misuse their government-issued cards and pay the bills on time, the department's senior financial officer said here March 5. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 10, 2003 - Coalition aircraft have conducted a series of strikes in the Southern No-fly Zone since March 8, U.S. Central Command officials said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 9, 2003 - The window for Saddam Hussein to disarm peacefully "is closing rapidly," Secretary of State Colin Powell said this morning. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 7, 2003 - The United States will work with its Korean allies to "rebalance" U.S. forces in the country, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said March 6. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 7, 2003 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today shared the Pentagon's perspective on the war against terrorism and Iraq with more than 100 visiting high school students. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 7, 2003 - Iraq has not made the strategic decision to disarm and cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors, Secretary of State Colin Powell told the U.N. Security Council today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 7, 2003 - Iraq has improved cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors, but questions remain, the two men in charge of inspections reported to the U.N. Security Council today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 7, 2003 - U.S. troops deployed to the Persian Gulf region and other overseas locations will soon receive personal messages from family members, friends, neighbors, colleagues and supporters via the pages of Stars and Stripes. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 6, 2003 - Saddam Hussein is testing the United States, the U.N. Security Council and the international community, America's top diplomat said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 6, 2003 - How much would a war against Iraq potentially cost? There are too many variables to give a good estimate, said DoD Comptroller Dov Zakheim. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 6, 2003 - U.N. weapons inspectors need only answer a single question when they go before the Security Council in New York March 7: "Has the Iraqi regime fully and unconditionally disarmed?" |
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| WASHINGTON, March 6, 2003 - The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States underscored DoD's need to transform to meet the challenges of the 21st century, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 6, 2003 - Army Capt. Steven Kyle Jones got his first pair of spectacles when he was 6. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 5, 2003 - Time is fast running out for Saddam Hussein to voluntarily jettison his weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems to comply with U.N. Resolution 1441, the top U.S. diplomat said here today. |
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| FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, March 5, 2003 - For the harried soldier, scurrying to wrap up a thousand details before deploying to an unknown future, pet abandonment is a decision born of desperation and fraught with guilt. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 5, 2003 - The U.S. Army general who would lead any troops into battle in Iraq said today that America's forces in the region are trained, ready and capable. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 5, 2003 - The U.S. military will be able to function in a chemical and biological warfare environment, a Marine specialist told The Chris Core Show on ABC radio March 4. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 5, 2003 - The U.S. military will go to great lengths to limit civilian deaths and to minimize damage to nonmilitary facilities should war with Iraq be necessary, U.S. officials say. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 4, 2003 - As the United States readies for a potential offensive on Iraq, Stars and Stripes is gearing up to cover the war and to distribute the daily newspaper to thousands of troops deployed throughout the Persian Gulf region. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 4, 2003 - Millions of Americans have responded to the Department of Homeland Security's preparedness program for possible acts of terrorism, DHS Secretary Tom Ridge told a U.S. Senate committee today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 4, 2003 - The capture of alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Pakistan is a huge loss to al Qaeda, the top U.S. law enforcement official said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 4, 2003 - Sometimes the bullets in a war are not the kind made out of lead. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 4, 2003 - The arrest in Pakistan of a senior al Qaeda leader "struck a serious blow" to the terrorist group, President Bush said today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 4, 2003 - The Pentagon's leadership discussed all aspects of a potential war with Iraq during the Chris Core Show on the ABC Radio network today. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 3, 2003 - Four North Korean fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Air Force plane in international airspace over the Sea of Japan early Mar. 2, Defense Department officials said. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 3, 2003 - America will honor Korean War Veterans July 25- 27 in a national salute here that includes a ceremony at the Korean War Veterans Memorial and a musical program at the MCI Center. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 3, 2003 - While world attention focuses on the looming possibility of war with Iraq, American and coalition aircrews patrolling the Northern and Southern No-fly zones over that country face potential conflict with the Iraqi military every day. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 3, 2003 - Even though Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the war on terror is "largely over," it doesn't mean his country is suddenly a safe place. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 3, 2003 - If Saddam Hussein decides to use chemical or biological weapons against U.S. forces, he may well kill or injure more of his own forces than Americans. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 3, 2003 - The memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001, will feature lighted benches, reflecting pools and lots of trees. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 1, 2003 - Pakistan reported today the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed a top al Qaeda lieutenant during a raid in Rawalpindi. |
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| WASHINGTON, March 1, 2003 - A veteran Central Intelligence Agency executive will head the Terrorist Threat Integration Center slated to start operations May 1. |
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