US nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr throws Iraqi parliament into the air
The radical Shi’a cleric has found a way to potentially spoil the system imposed by Washington two decades ago. What now?
The radical Shi’a cleric has found a way to potentially spoil the system imposed by Washington two decades ago. What now?
Our record for improving conditions with military intervention is, while well-intentioned, riddled by failure. There’s a better way.
Like the third installment of the Stallone series, America is trying to reimagine itself while never acknowledging failures of the past.
For the last 20 years the US has treated the sovereignty of states as conditional, reserving the right to attack when it chooses.
Tehran vowed to purge American influence from the region. On that score, their record is decidedly mixed.
The armed groups serving as proxies for Tehran in places like Lebanon and Iran are losing their shine. Here’s why.
From the sinking of the Maine to Saddam’s WMDs, there’s usually a ginned-up event behind every destructive US war.
A new book finds that failure is baked in the cake yet the US insists on playing with fire again and again.
It may be too soon to erect a monument to a 20-year conflict that is ongoing and that many Americans still don’t understand.
Something is driving military men and women to suicide. It’s time to take stock of the tempo and deployments and figure out what.
We have to correct the widening disconnect between foreign policy decision-making and average citizens’ daily lives.
After a US outpost is struck again, reportedly by Iranian-backed militias, the DoD assures our forces aren’t going anywhere. This is folly.
A veteran war correspondent recalls the ignorance, poor judgement, exceptionalism, and hubris in all of our interventions.
The ‘reluctant warrior’ said he thought he would ‘have an aneurysm’ after her full-throated plea for military action in Bosnia.
Special forces veteran-turned-investigative journalist explains how drones became the ‘unblinking eye’ waiting for Afghans to ‘f-ck up.’
A New York-based group linked to AIPAC organized a meeting there promoting diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
There still might be justice for three detainees who say private interrogators were on site and complicit in the heinous acts.
Congress’s blank check helped launched conflicts, many currently ongoing, that have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
The findings come as a separate study estimates the US has so far spent $8 trillion.
But it was a trap laid by Osama bin Laden that only Washington could spring. And it did.
The US military role in Afghanistan is over, but the costs will continue to mount as the forever wars rage on.