Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on Thursday said the United ... The longer U.S. forces remain in Iraq, he said, the more it begins to resemble the Vietnam war. Hagel mocked Vice President Dick Cheney's ...

Chuck Hagel was the 24th Secretary of Defense, serving from February 2013 to February 2015. He is the only Vietnam veteran and the first enlisted combat veteran to serve as Secretary of Defense.

Equally, Chuck Hagel is likely to prove a formidable manager of the political processes required to get his way. A three-term senator from Nebraska, he volunteered for Vietnam in 1968, fighting ...