US Wars and Military Action

Lituya Bay, Gulf of Alaska

Here Are the Navy’s Plans to Bomb the Arctic Here Are the Navy’s Plans to Bomb the Arctic

The waters of the Gulf of Alaska are some of the most pristine in the world. That will change next month.

May 21, 2015 / Dahr Jamail

The GOP Still Doesn’t Get It on Iraq

The GOP Still Doesn’t Get It on Iraq The GOP Still Doesn’t Get It on Iraq

For many 2016 GOP hopefuls, when it comes to Iraq, time does not equal wisdom.

May 19, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Vietnam Is the War That Didn’t End

Vietnam Is the War That Didn’t End Vietnam Is the War That Didn’t End

Forty years later, we still haven’t confronted the true lesson of Vietnam.

May 5, 2015 / William Greider

Drones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death

Drones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death Drones, Cops, and the Unaccountable Machinery of Death

From signature strikes in Pakistan to police violence in Baltimore, the state is seemingly uninterested in even counting how many people it kills.

Apr 29, 2015 / The Editors

40 Years On, the Taste of Defeat in Vietnam Has Only Become More Rancid

40 Years On, the Taste of Defeat in Vietnam Has Only Become More Rancid 40 Years On, the Taste of Defeat in Vietnam Has Only Become More Rancid

The lesson US presidents learned from it was not no more wars, just no more drafts.

Apr 28, 2015 / Peter Davis

How Do You Win a Failed War? Rewrite the Ending.

How Do You Win a Failed War? Rewrite the Ending. How Do You Win a Failed War? Rewrite the Ending.

The Vietnam War was indisputably an American-grown disaster. But why let truth stand in the way of glory?

Apr 27, 2015 / Christian Appy

Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory

Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory

On the war’s 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon’s whitewashed history.

Apr 15, 2015 / Feature / Jon Wiener

How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey

How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey How Drones Turned American Wars Into Manhunts and Humans Into Prey

The remote-controlled hunting of human beings has become standard practice in American warfare.

Apr 7, 2015 / Grégoire Chamayou

US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007

US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007 US Soldiers and Contractors Accused of Sexually Abusing Children in Colombia Between 2003 and 2007

What the media don’t cover when Colombian women are raped by members of the US military.

Apr 7, 2015 / Greg Grandin

How to Create an Afghan Blackwater

How to Create an Afghan Blackwater How to Create an Afghan Blackwater

How an American fantasy conflict created disaster in Afghanistan.

Apr 6, 2015 / Anand Gopal

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