Admiral Michael Mullen: “The Afghan Government needs to at some point in time appear to actually have some legitimacy in the eyes of its people.”

As long as American forces keep killing Afghan civilians, the United States is not going to win this war.

Their legacy is not in their death. It is ultimately not in their sacrifice. It is in the sunrises and sunsets, the birthdays and the holidays, the first dates, and the first-borns, all the cherished moments they have made possible for the…

The line of questioning approached here for those of us in the military that we would consider for a second not doing anything we possibly could just stirs us to our bones because that's not who we are. We don't leave anybody behind.

To achieve operational energy reductions, the Department tripled investment in energy security technology over the last 4 years, from $400 million to $1.2 billion.