A majority of Americans do not like the idea of a military surge, according to a new Gallup Poll. The survey found that 61 percent of those polled oppose any increase in the number of US forces in Iraq, despite the widely reported Administration view that such a move would help stabilize the situation.
Lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill are pressing the Pentagon to get serious about the threat cheap, small drones pose to U.S. forces at home and abroad—and to put them in the hands of American troops as quickly as possible.