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Lawyer: Soldier to Admit to Afghan Massacre
(SEATTLE) — The Army staff sergeant charged with slaughtering 16 villagers during one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war has agreed to plead guilty...
“We spend about $10 million per hour in the Afghanistan war and right now we are losing a soldier every day to suicide. Shifting an hour’s worth of war funding to the fight of preventing soldier suicides is the least we can do.”
– Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., on the passage of an amendment he co-sponsored boosting Pentagon suicide-prevention funding by $10 million in next year’s military...
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...
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...
Soldier Due to Plead Guilty in Afghan Massacre
(SEATTLE) The American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two slumbering villages last year is expected to recount the...
The Renewed American Militarism
Andrew J. Bacevich is one of the most provocative – as in thought-provoking – national-security writers out there today. Part of that stems from his background –...
Did U.S. Special Forces Commit Atrocities in a Key Afghan Province?
The Karzai government has decreed that the American commandos cease operations in Wardak. But it isn’t quite clear what exactly happened there—and who is being...
The Outpost: A Crucial History of Our Longest War
In the summer of 2006 four and a half years after the invasion of Afghanistan someone in the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division had a bright idea In and...
Exit Petraeus–And His Famous Military Doctrine
The disgrace of David Petraeus has ended more than a great military career It is also the symbolic end of a major chapter in American security strategy The fall...
Soldier Suicides, An Epidemic We Must Defeat
Every day an active-duty member of our Armed Forces commits suicide. To emphasize the silent, tragic epidemic that is sweeping across the U.S. military, consider...
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...
The Conundrum of Risky Painkillers for Veterans with PTSD
Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war are more than twice as likely to be prescribed opioid medications, such as morphine and hydrocodone, for their physical...
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...
Making the Sale: How to Deal with Unemployment among Veterans
There are few things more awkward than walking the streets of East Harlem in my Army dress blue uniform. The gold pant stripes and the medals on my coat draw an...
A Reactor Revival.
A few weeks ago, a group of IRAQ and Afghanistan war veterans descended on NASCAR's Kansas City Sprint Cup race with a mission. They were members of Operation...
A Bipartisan Energy Solution: Nuclear Power
A few weeks ago, a group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans descended on NASCAR's Kansas City Sprint Cup race with a mission. They were members of Operation...
Afghan Leaks: Is the U.S. Keeping Too Many Secrets?
The leak of 91,000 secret documents about the Afghanistan war may not offer major new insights about that conflict. But the WikiLeaks drama does spotlight a...
