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Baby Boomers

From a transcript of radio transmissions and cockpit conversations that took place during a drone strike in Afghanistan in 2010. The strike killed twenty-three civilians. At Nevada headquarters, Pilot is…

Death of a General

by Sune Engel Rasmussen,

The American military’s failure to prevent an insider attack

First-Person Shooters

by Sam Sacks,

What’s missing in contemporary war fiction

What Went Wrong

by David Bromwich,

Assessing Obama’s legacy

Love Crimes

by Jennifer Percy,

What liberation looks like for Afghan women

Why We Lost in Iraq and Afghanistan

by Daniel Bolger,

A general’s account of the military’s mistakes

Kandahar’s Mystery Executions

by Anand Gopal,

Are the Afghan police using torture to achieve peace?

Tunnel Vision

by Andrew Cockburn,

Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?

The Pious Spy

by Mujib Mashal,

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection

Polite Brigade

by Noorullah Dawari,

From A Brochure for Comprehending the Cultures of the Coalition Forces, a twenty-eight-page pamphlet published by the Afghan Ministry of Defense and distributed to Afghan troops. Translated from the Dari…

A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Occasioned by the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war