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The Morning After: They Blowed Up Real Good
Yesterday was the first day of summer, the longest, lightest day of the year, which made it the astronomically perfect day for ABC to premiere its companion...
The Afghanistan War Reaches a Milestone — and Keeps Going
On Saturday Nov. 27, the United States and its allies will reach a grim milestone: they will have been in Afghanistan a day longer than the Soviet Union had been...
Who's Running the Afghanistan War, Anyway?
Unlike the chattering classes, senior military officers didn't raise an eyebrow when General Stanley McChrystal recently said he had only spoken once to...
Can the U.S. 'Offshore' Its Afghanistan War?
Pity President Obama for having to open the Afghanistan file that was sitting on his Oval Office desk when he returned to work this week. His handpicked...
Real American Heroes - Six Inches Tall
Faced by a dwindling number of volunteers, the U.S. military is adding a new recruitment tactic: aiming young. Real Heroes, a line of Army-authorized toy...
Welcome to Chechnya's Second Front
At 11 p.m. on June 21, Timur Aliyev was working late. Suddenly he and his staff at the Public Development Institute in Nazran, the main town in the tiny Northern...
The U.S. Says the Afghanistan War Is Over. The Taliban Aren't So Sure
The U.S. has ended "major combat activity" in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced last week, adding "we clearly have moved from major combat...
Another Face of Multiple Deployments
It’s been nearly two months since the Kandahar massacre – some time and distance, but not much. Some things are clearer, some things still aren’t. We don’t know...
No Easy Way Out
The war in Afghanistan never looked so hopeless as it did in the days after an American soldier walked from his base near Kandahar and murdered 16 civilians,...
Republicans Stay to Obama’s Right on Afghanistan
The massacre of sixteen Afghan civilians near Kandahar has thrust Afghanistan back into the political debate. (Yes, there is a real war going on, and it’s not...
