Gates, Mullen discuss policy at Pentagon

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama seems to be winning over skeptical military commanders who at first distrusted him, analysts say.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A recent cyberattack on U.S. military computers was so severe, U.S. President George Bush was briefed on the situation, sources said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Almost two months before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, U.S. and Russian diplomats already have been meeting quietly in Moscow to explore the possibility of a new negotiating process to defuse tensions between the two thermonuclear superpowers over U.S. plans to deploy ballistic missile defense systems in Central Europe.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Piracy is back. And in a big way. The heirs of Blackbeard -- 18th century Caribbean pirate Edward Teach -- and Anne Bonny are alive and well on the Somali main, looting the great ships of the world.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama likely will keep Bush appointees in several critical posts for continuity in his administration's early days, observers said.

MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The "military summit" talks held in Helsinki, Finland, in October between the chiefs of staff of the Russian and U.S. armed forces had far-reaching implications.

MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- On Oct. 21, Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with his Russian counterpart, Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, at a mansion outside Helsinki, Finland.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. military spokesman says the U.S. Army's use of involuntary combat duty extensions, known as stop loss, will probably continue through 2009.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Top U.S. policymakers are declaring victory in Iraq and switching their focus to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Islamist violence continues to surge following the fall of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- One way to look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is to see them as one war with two fronts.