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Afghan War

Eye of the Drone

From statements made in February by the families of victims and survivors of a March 17, 2011, drone attack in the village of Datta Khel in the Pakistani region of…

The Warrior Class

by Charles Glass,

A golden age for the freelance soldier

Search and Destroy

by Andrew Cockburn,

The Pentagon’s losing battle against IEDs

Conjectural damage

by Daniel Swift,

A history of bombing

A Letter to Barack Obama

by George McGovern,

George McGovern in New Hampshire, 1972. © Constantine Manos/Magnum Photos When President Franklin Roosevelt came into office in the depth of the Great Depression, he sought to stabilize and…

Owned by the Army

by Jonathan Stevenson,

Has the president lost control of his generals?

Status Update

From a February 2010 Facebook chat between Christopher Winfield and his son Adam, an Army specialist with a Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan. According to Army investigators, two more…

Plight Simulator

by Harper’s Staff,

Lines of dialogue from a test version of the First Person Cultural Trainer, a computer game developed by a research team at the University of Texas at Dallas. The game…

The Master of Spin Boldak

by Matthieu Aikins,

Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police

The War We Can’t Win

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

Human Quicksand

by Steve Featherstone,

For the U.S. Army, a Crash Course in Cultural Studies