Iraq

Don't Expect Anyone to Ask Chuck Hagel About an Orphanage Massacre During Vietnam

The confirmation hearings won't seriously address the dark legacy of the war.

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| Thu Jan. 31, 2013 12:01 PM PST

On Hagel Day, We Recall His Half-Courageous Stand on the Iraq War

And half a courageous stand is better than none.

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| Thu Jan. 31, 2013 7:47 AM PST

Charts: Suicide, PTSD and the Psychological Toll on America's Vets

14 staggering stats about the invisible wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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| Thu Jan. 17, 2013 4:00 AM PST
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Seven Steps to Loving Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style

Kathryn Bigelow's film swallows Bush-era torture policies hook, like, and sinker.

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| Thu Jan. 10, 2013 12:06 PM PST

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“So Many People Died”: How Afghanistan and Iraq Echo Vietnam

The ties between the wars are darker than most Americans recognize.

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| Tue Jan. 8, 2013 4:10 PM PST
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Hagel's Half-Courageous Stand on the Iraq War

Obama's Pentagon nominee presciently noted how Iraq could go bad, but still supported the leader of his party.

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| Mon Jan. 7, 2013 4:00 AM PST
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Where Does Milllons in Pentagon Contracts Go?

Millions of American dollars flow into nation-building contracts for the Middle East, while the US's own infrastructure gets a "D."

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| Thu Nov. 15, 2012 3:20 PM PST
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Petraeus Affair Lesson: The Army Is Better at Planning Soirees Than Wars

Plan for the Army's annual ball, attended by all the scandal's players: 17 pages. Plan for Iraq reconstruction: one word. WTF?

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| Tue Nov. 13, 2012 2:31 PM PST
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Romney Enlists General Behind Iraq Debacle as Key Military Adviser

The same guy who bungled Iraq planning and was in charge when bin Laden escaped is now advising the GOP candidate.

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| Fri Oct. 19, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won't Be Raised in the Debates

A former State Department officer asks the tough questions.

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| Thu Oct. 11, 2012 11:45 AM PDT
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The Discrediting of US Military Power

From Pakistan to Honduras—just about anywhere it goes in the old colonial or neocolonial world—our military is encountering resistance and failure.

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| Tue Oct. 9, 2012 10:14 AM PDT

The Problem With Obama's "Smart Power" Overseas

How the president's brand of strategic foreign policy has come with its own set of grave issues.

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| Thu Sep. 6, 2012 10:32 AM PDT

Setting the Record Straight on Afghanistan

The total troops in Afghanistan in 2010 topped troops in Iraq at the height of the war.

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| Wed Sep. 5, 2012 2:35 PM PDT
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Condi Rice to Rescue Romney on National Security?

On the eve of Rice's convention speech, critics blast the GOP ticket as neoconservative, incoherent, and anti-veteran.

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| Wed Aug. 29, 2012 3:04 PM PDT

Big Oil's Scorecard in Iraq

How an American disaster paved the way for Big Oil’s rise—and possible fall—in Iraq.

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| Thu Aug. 23, 2012 12:53 PM PDT

How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan—or America

A guide to disaster at home and abroad.

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| Thu Aug. 16, 2012 10:30 AM PDT

Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad

How two administrations and both parties made illegality the American way of life.

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| Wed Aug. 15, 2012 10:32 AM PDT

The Military's Stranglehold on America

The lessons Washington can't draw from the failure of the military option.

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| Thu Jul. 5, 2012 11:45 AM PDT

Understanding a New Era of PTSD

What PTSD means for soldiers in a time of shadow wars.

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| Thu Jun. 28, 2012 11:47 AM PDT

The New Obama Doctrine: A Six-Point Plan for Global War

Special Ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, proxy fighters, and cyber warfare are the new stuff of global warfare.

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| Thu Jun. 14, 2012 11:34 AM PDT