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With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

What a busted robot airplane tells us about American empire in 2012 and beyond.

Meet the secret bases that make up the backbone of a new American robotic way of war.

Pakistan’s Chinese alliance is one of its most potent weapons in any future showdown with the US.

Nearing a decade of conflict in Afghanistan, the US armed forces are quickly turning into quagmire specialists.

To weigh your skills, take the eleven-question pop quiz below, and see if you deserve to be a four-star general, a gun-totin’ mercenary or a mere private.

WikiLeaks' release of 92,000 classified military documents reveals that the war in Afghanistan is in even worse shape than we suspected.

With eighteen Democratic senators voting for Feingold’s call for withdrawal from Afghanistan, is a long and bloody end to the quagmire in sight?

The deeper strategic incoherence that lies under the president's AfPak flip-flop.

US war-fighting numbers to knock your socks off.