Nation Topics - Stanley McChrystal | The Nation

From liberation to assassination, in three quick rounds.

Even Barack Obama knows that the political necessity to prove that he is tough on terror can have dangerous consequences for American security and his standing throughout the world.

Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency? A look at Obama's perpetuation of Bush's economic and national security policies. 

The US military's reinvented counterinsurgency turns out to be the same old brutal game.

Does anyone seriously expect the US government, and its global allies, to permit more revelations to leak out? Defenders of human rights need to be ready to stand up for WikiLeaks.

In Afghanistan, Petraeus has proven himself a master of the incredible shrinking withdrawal date.

The president needs to learn to play hardball.

The military may not be winning the Afghan War, but it is winning the Afghan publishing wars at home, with a striking percentage of books on the war Pentagon-influenced or simply Pentagon-produced.

Are the Pentagon and US military high command addicted not to victory, but to the state of war itself?

The military's media megaphone and the U.S. global military presence.