High-Profile Officer Nagl to Leave Army, Join Think Tank
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One of the Army's most prominent younger officers, whose writings have influenced the conduct of the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, said he has decided to leave the service to study strategic issues full time at a new Washington think tank.
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Leading Republican senator and Iraq war critic Chuck Hagel, who was considered a potential contender in the race for the presidency, announced plans to retire from politics Monday.
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Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former managing editor of The Washington Post, will become the new chief of a Washington think tank, officials said last night.
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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, a thorn in his own party's side when it comes to Iraq, announced Monday that he would retire from the Senate and not seek any elected office in 2008.
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Exclusive: For the second time, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is transferring a top-level commander rather than promoting a younger leader - raising eyebrows among military leaders
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President Bush's top economic adviser is leaving his post to return to academia, the White House announced Wednesday.
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A top Palestinian official said Saturday he would dismantle an elite security unit accused of abuse and corruption in a first step toward overhauling the tangled network of Palestinian security forces.
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A new think tank run by former U.S. defense officials has published a detailed plan that would have the United States withdraw from Iraq in phases, beginning next month and ending in 2012.
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Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a harsh critic of the Iraq war, plans to retire and will not seek the Republican presidential nomination next year, a source said on Saturday.
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The U.S. Army will discontinue its  multi-billion dollar contract with oil services giant  Halliburton Co.  to provide logistical support to U.S.  troops worldwide, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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and NELSON ANTOSH. Halliburton on Thursday promoted the head of its KBR operation to the No. 2 job and announced that the highly regarded leader of its oilwell service group had resigned.
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SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army sergeant  who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a U.S.  military base near Tokyo on Tuesday to head for a new life with  his family in his Japanese wife's home town.
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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, a thorn in his own party's side when it comes to Iraq, announced Monday he would retire from the Senate and not seek any elected office in 2008.
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President Bush's point man for  international counterterrorism policy has quit, the first  resignation by a senior official to be made public since Bush's  reelection, a U.S. official said on Friday.
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Jean-Paul Gut, the chief operating officer at European aeronautics and defence giant EADS, said on Monday he was stepping down from his post because of a disagreement over strategy.
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A new think tank run by former U.S. defense officials has published a detailed plan that would have the United States withdraw from Iraq in phases, beginning in 2008 and ending in 2012.
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The head of a Pentagon-funded research organization has resigned after the group's trustees concluded that his simultaneous service on the boards of two defense contractors was contrary to its conflict-of-interest policies.