Martin E. Dempsey

dempsey.jpg

Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Ron Sachs/CNP Photo)

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, (right) and his Colombian counterpart Gen. Juan Pablo Rodriguez Barragán salute as a Pentagon honor guard marks off their path into a meeting. The two men, each his country's top uniformed service member, discussed counterinsurgency lessons from their respective recent guerrilla wars.

AP877038103225.jpg

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey, U.S. Army, delivers testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services on the U.S. policy towards Iraq and Syria and the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

8_212014_us-iraq-28201.jpg

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said the Islamic State militants can be contained, but only temporarily. He said the problem must be addressed diplomatically, politically and militarily by the U.S. and regional partners. (Associated Press)

3_2_2014_benghazi8201.jpg

Army Gen. Carter Ham has testified that he had told Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs chairman, that Americans in Benghazi were under attack by terrorists, not demonstrators. He said both men agreed. (Associated Press)

11202013_martin-dempsey8201.jpg

** FILE ** Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

101_2013_south-korea-us-military8201.jpg

Pause from 'pivot': "We're looking at how we can assist the Lebanese armed forces, the Jordanians in particular," said Gen. Martin E. Dempsey. (Associated Press)

9_172013_navy-yard-shooting-memori-38201.jpg

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (right) along with Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of Naval Operations; Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy; and Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, render honors Tuesday during a wreath-laying ceremony at the U.S. Navy Memorial. (U.S. Navy via Associated Press)