Casper Willard Weinberger (born 1917) served in the administrations of three U.S. presidents, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, as secretary of health, education and welfare, and as secretary of defense. He was noted for His...

It may seem odd that a man known as "Cap the Knife" for his efforts to cut government spending in the Nixon administration could go on to oversee the biggest peacetime increase in defense spending. To Caspar Weinberger, the math was simple: "We won...

Caspar Weinberger, an American defence secretary, died on March 28th, aged 88 WHEN the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, it sent one serviceman for roughly every 100 Iraqis. Twenty years earlier, when it had invaded Grenada, it sent one for every...

William Crowe, an Annapolis-trained submarine officer who rose to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served as ambassador to Britain, has died at age 82.The retired admiral died early Thursday at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the Navy announced. No cause of death was released...

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has hired a prominent attorney as he fights to keep his job, in jeopardy for arranging a generous compensation package for a bank employee with whom he has been romantically linked."I want to be sure that he receives appropriate treatment...