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The commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan has finished his review of the war and that it is now being sent up the chain of command to the Pentagon and NATO headquarters, NATO says.

Removal of a top U.S. commander shows Pentagon's view that officers must be adept at working the battlefield -- and Washington.

China shares the region's "serious concerns" about a nuclear North Korea and urged all parties to keep negotiating, a senior Chinese military officer said Wednesday after talks with Pentagon officials.

DARPA is well into second phase of project to develop 'programmable matter' that could reshape itself to fit any situation.

The Pentagon is prepared to leave fighting forces in Iraq for as long as a decade despite an agreement between the United States and Iraq that would bring all American troops home by 2012, the top U.S. Army officer said Tuesday.

Evidence suggests munitions procured by the Pentagon leak from Afghan forces for use against American troops.

A Defense Department official was charged Wednesday with feeding classified information to an agent for the Chinese government.

The Pentagon will release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2006, Pentagon officials said Friday, but they said the photos did not show a systemic problem.

The Pentagon said Monday that Chinese ships harassed a U.S. surveillance ship Sunday in the South China Sea in the latest of several instances of "increasingly aggressive conduct."

It sounds like the opening line to a bad joke. And this case was a bad joke -- for the Pentagon.