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Washington's Nightmare in Afghanistan (War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

Why Afghan history is a sobering antidote to the relentless optimism of the American military.

Ann Jones
Fanning the Flames in Afghanistan (War and Peace, US Wars and Military Action)

How US (in)actions have all but ensured a failed end to its presence in Afghanistan.

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation (US Wars and Military Action)

How drone war became the American way of war.

Tom Engelhardt
Scoring the Global War on Terror (US Politics, US Wars and Military Action)

From liberation to assassination, in three quick rounds.

Andrew J. Bacevich
Washington's War in Yemen Backfires (War and Peace, Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

How US counterterrorism operations ignited an Islamist uprising.

Jeremy Scahill
'Losing' the World, Part One (US Politics, US Wars and Military Action, World)

American decline, from a historical perspective.

Noam Chomsky
450 Bases and Counting (Covert Ops, US Military Presence Abroad, US Wars and Military Action)

The Pentagon’s Afghan basing plans for prisons, drones and black ops.

Nick Turse
Drone flies above Afghanistan
A Brief History of Drones (Civilian Casualties, Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

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

John Sifton
Kicking Down the World's Door (Covert Ops, US Wars and Military Action)

How drones, special operations forces and the US Navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it.

Tom Engelhardt
Jeremy Scahill: Obama the Hawk (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, US Wars and Military Action)

The Obama administration's alternatives to large-scale military operations are, in some ways, far more drastic and dangerous for US interests around the globe.

Francis Reynolds

Blogs

When the Great Judgment Call Came, Hagel Handed Bush a Blank Check
John Nichols

Arguments will be made for Obama’s Defense pick. But Hagel’s vote to authorize Bush and Cheney to attack Iraq should raise eyebrows—and questions.

January 7, 2013
The Mess in Iraq
Bob Dreyfuss

Violence in Iraq is going from bad to worse, in tandem with neighboring Syria.

January 3, 2013
Congress Will Be Diminished by the Departure of Dennis Kucinch
John Nichols

The Ohio Democrat opposed wars that needed to be opposed, fought to preserve civil liberties and always sided with workers and farmers against corporations.

January 3, 2013
Newtown, Afghanistan
Bob Dreyfuss

Isn't a slaughtered child is a slaughtered child, regardless of where they come from?

December 24, 2012
The US Military Approves Bombing Children
Bob Dreyfuss

It’s not just all “military age males” being targeted in Afghanistan. Now, it’s kids, too, says the Military Times.

December 4, 2012
Obama's Drone Presidency
Melissa Harris-Perry

As the number of civilian casualties mounts, our nation's “kill list” only grows longer. 

November 19, 2012
Jeremy Scahill: In Obama's Second Term, Will Democrats Challenge Drones?
Nation in the News

After last night's re-election, progressives wonder if the US is in for four more years of extrajudicial killings. 

November 7, 2012
More Civilians Slaughtered in Afghanistan in US Airstrike
Bob Dreyfuss

Yet again.

October 16, 2012
Red Cross, Crisis Group Issue Bleak Afghan Forecasts
Bob Dreyfuss

Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta spews happy talk at a NATO meeting.

October 10, 2012
After DADT Repeal: Choosing Our Battles
Timothy Patrick McCarthy

A year ago, the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell” was a great step for LGB rights, but it did not nearly go far enough.

September 26, 2012