The U.S. can no longer afford to defer efforts to modernize its nuclear arsenal as China, Russia and other countries upgrade their own arsenals, according to a top U.S. general. Air Force General Paul Selva, vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the armed forces have made modernizing its nuclear arsenal, including weapons, infrastructure and personnel, its top priority after noting the... 

The top US Army official says the United States is learning from Israel’s tactics on how to limit civilian casualties in a war, despite the international outcry over the regime’s brutality in Gaza. Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the Pentagon has sent a team to see what lessons could be learned from the recent Israeli invasion of Gaza on how... 

US General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Today, General Dempsey, Chairman of America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the man who flew to Tel Aviv and informed Netanyahu that America wanted no part of his scheming against Iran was the subject of an assassination attempt in Afghanistan. This wasn’t an act of terrorism or Taliban militants. It was a “mob hit” against someone who...