Defense Secretary Robert Gates says military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan would cost almost $136 billion for the 2009 budget year that began Oct. 1 if they continue at their current pace.
Speaking for neither his current boss, President George W. Bush — nor his future one, President-elect Barack Obama — Gates told top lawmakers in a New Year's Eve letter that the Pentagon would need nearly $70 billion more to supplement the $66 billion approved last year.
Gates estimates 2009 war costs at $136 billion
Mustafa Al-Shawa awoke at 2:30 a.m. on Monday to the sound of gunfire and the rumble...
Following the announcement of a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States, it is...
Of all the military failures the US has suffered in the past 25 years in the...
Iran’s top diplomat has said a peace deal with the US would require Israel to withdraw...
