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'Warfare': Rare Iraq War film that doesn't preach but packs punch
The core message is deftly smuggled into a simple story of a platoon inserted into an alien environment and forced into ignominious retreat
May 26, 2025
iraq war
Military Industrial Complex
Veterans: What we would say to Trump on this Memorial Day
Don't just focus on the 'wins' but take cost and 'America First' seriously
May 26, 2025
Middle East
Here is why US troops may be in Iraq indefinitely
An inconvenient truth: the country's dependency on American forces has hobbled the growth of its own military
May 21, 2025
Global Crises
Pope Francis' legacy of inter-faith diplomacy
After similar outreach to Sunnis, the pontiff's 2021 meeting with Shia's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani transcended boundaries and fostered co-existence
April 21, 2025
Middle East
The ghosts of the Iraq War still haunt me, and our foreign policy
As a young National Guardsman I reported for duty on March 21, 2003. Why are there still troops there today?
March 20, 2025
Middle East
Set it off: How US invasion of Iraq led to chaos in Syria today
Washington torched the region and watched it burn through regime changes, Arab Spring, civil wars, and the regeneration of terror groups
December 12, 2024
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