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How can two generals be hailed as military heroes, when the wars they commanded failed spectacularly?

Petraeus may have had the affair, but we're all responsible for the U.S' worshipful embrace of our military generals. 

Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?

Civilians pay the heaviest toll in Gaza, and when the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas put an end to the violence, thousands took to the street to celebrate.

Testimonies from Israeli Defense Force veterans reveal the truth about the ongoing occupation.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Gaza has stoked a fever pitch of hard-line nationalism.

As with Operation Cast Lead, Washington is directly complicit—and this time, Israel can argue it’s merely channeling US drone assassination policy.

If the director of the CIA and a Reserve intelligence officer can’t even conduct a decent affair, what does that say about the institution that groomed them?

In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.

Most media has lauded Petraeus for his military success. But his true strength was as a P.R. prodigy.