US Wars and Military Action

How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan

How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan

Our war has radicalized Pakistanis, turning many against the West and their own government.

Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Anatol Lieven

Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks

Why did the senior State Department representative resign from his Afghanistan post?

Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Barbara Koeppel

Tossing the Afghan COIN

Tossing the Afghan COIN Tossing the Afghan COIN

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

Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Michael A. Cohen

Afghan Review: ‘Lookin’ Good,’ Says Obama Afghan Review: ‘Lookin’ Good,’ Says Obama

It's mostly spin, not substance, and the real fight over what to do in Afghanistan will come early next spring.

Dec 16, 2010 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss

A Flood of Drone Strikes A Flood of Drone Strikes

What the WikiLeaks revelations tell us about how Washington runs Pakistan.

Dec 9, 2010 / Fatima Bhutto

Epitaph From the Imperial Graveyard Epitaph From the Imperial Graveyard

Under Obama, the American war dead have, it seems, like the war they are now fighting, generally gone into the dustbin of news coverage.

Dec 7, 2010 / Tom Engelhardt

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

Domestic and global trends suggest that in 2025, just 15 years from now, the American century could all be over except for the shouting.

Dec 6, 2010 / Alfred W. McCoy

Greg Mitchell And Chris Hayes Examine the WikiLeaks Outrage Greg Mitchell And Chris Hayes Examine the WikiLeaks Outrage

 On MSNBC's Countdown, Greg Mitchell and Chris Hayes ask, has WikiLeaks' Julian Assange really endangered lives?

Dec 3, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room

Iraq As American Ally in 2012? Dream On, Brookings Iraq As American Ally in 2012? Dream On, Brookings

A think-tank task forces tells Iraq: let our troops stay indefinitely, or we'll take all our marbles and go home.

Dec 3, 2010 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss

Jeremy Scahill: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Secret US War in Pakistan Jeremy Scahill: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Secret US War in Pakistan

When Jeremy Scahill reported on a secret US war in Pakistan last year, the Pentagon called his article "conspiratorial." But now, says Scahill on Democracy Now!, t...

Dec 3, 2010 / Nation in the News / Press Room

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