Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency
Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you're not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen.
Feb 19, 2010 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Movie Favorites from the Secretary of Defense Movie Favorites from the Secretary of Defense
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates chooses a movie--and it happens to be about a military coup in the US.
Feb 2, 2010 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
The Shadow War The Shadow War
The secret war that lies behind the CIA's recent intelligence disaster in Afghanistan.
Jan 11, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
Why War Will Take No Holidays in 2010 Why War Will Take No Holidays in 2010
From the point of view of peace or de-escalation, 2010 will be a year of no significance.
Dec 23, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Obama’s Nine Surges Obama’s Nine Surges
Despite the seeming specificity of the president's West Point speech on the Afghan War--30,000 new troops at a cost of $30 billion--Americans got little sense of just how big and h...
Dec 11, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan Victory at Last! Monty Python in Afghanistan
How Obama's Afghan speech turned the Commander-in-Chief into the Commanded-and-Chief.
Dec 3, 2009 / Tom Engelhardt
The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won’t) The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won’t)
What if the president actually decided to take an "off-ramp" from the Afghan War?
Nov 25, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Drone Race to a Known Future Drone Race to a Known Future
Armed drone aircraft in Afghanistan and Pakistan are only the latest wonder weapon to promise us the world.
Nov 11, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Afghanistan: Too Big to Fail? Afghanistan: Too Big to Fail?
Why do America's leaders always opt for "more" in counterinsurgency disasters rather than cutting their losses?
Nov 2, 2009 / Tom Engelhardt
Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World Lessons From the Long War and a Blowback World
Will today's US-armed ally be tomorrow's enemy?
Oct 19, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt