Finally, the Americans might step in to protect what the Pentagon calls "essential civic order."

It is being built under a policy that the Pentagon calls cost-sharing.

Those lessons, in turn, were based on what the Pentagon called "old material" from the 1960's.

A major problem has been what the Pentagon calls the "endgame challenge."

Back in the days when the world had been what the Pentagon would have called a quote viable alternative unquote.

The Pentagon has the money and calls the shots.

The Pentagon has called more than 157,000 to active duty so far.

The military relationship, part of a policy the Pentagon calls engagement, has not been without risks.

Taliban officials say 1,500 have died, a number the Pentagon calls highly inflated.