As al-Qaida Defeats ‘Moderate’ US Allies in Syria, Will the US Ally With al-Qaida?
President Obama has announced his new "complicated plan" to deal with ISIL and it involves training a "third force", therefore creating a Free Syrian Army to attack al-Qaeda and ISIL. But is this a practical option to fighting the radical extremists?
Memory loss in the garden of violence
How Americans remember (and forget) their wars.
An empire of nothing at all?
The U.S. military takes us through the gates of hell.
“What does war have to do with me?”
Sometimes war sounds like the harsh crack of gunfire and sometimes like the whisper of the wind. This early morning -- in...
What Americans don’t know about military families
Military families only have one another, however imperfect we may be.
‘Bone-chilling’ violence in Israel, Gaza has pushed region to a ‘tipping point’: UN relief...
"My message to all sides is unequivocal: The laws of war must be upheld," Martin Griffiths, the U.N.'s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, who called the scale and speed of the ongoing violence "bone-chilling."
Escalating violence in Lebanon: Tlaib denounces US support as Biden defends Israeli airstrikes
Differing responses between Rep. Rashida Tlaib and President Biden highlight U.S. involvement in Israel’s ongoing attacks on Lebanon, raising concerns about civilian casualties and broader regional war.
Nearly 500 More U.S. Troops Sent to Iraq for Mosul Attack in Advance of...
“It seems a little unlikely that PM al-Abadi cares about U.S. electoral problems. He has his own reasons for wanting to roll up al-Qaeda in Iraq quickly. But his timetable could play into Hillary Clinton’s hands.”
But I thought the Cold War was supposed to have been about ideology.
The Cold War should have ended in 1991 when communism and the Warsaw Pact did, but instead it continued on in the form of NATO.
Trump’s nuclear dreams
Nightmares past and present.