WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered military officials Friday to get Pentagon clearance for interviews and other media contacts ...
Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011
Can war survive the combination of daily behind-the-scenes exposures of the human flaws of decision makers, along with intimate portrayals of the travails of war?
Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the past couple of decades, power brokers within the military increasingly have been subverting established official procedures, bucking authority, and exploiting ambiguity.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Stanley McChrystal, the general and chief architect of the counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, was relieved of his command on Wednesday, foll...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
I imagine that Rolling Stone now understands that the White House will respond very quickly the next time the commander in charge of our controversial war puts the entire operation in jeopardy over some ill-advised sass talk.
Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: Gen. Stanley McChrystal has offered to resign his position in the wake of an explosive Rolling Stone interview, according to Time magazine's J...
Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Hastings, who wrote the profile of General Stanley McChrystal for Rolling Stone, said today that he wasn't quite sure why the general gave him...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Earlier this morning, Rolling Stone executive editor Eric Bates took note of the dismissal of the civilian press aide who set up the interview between...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Is it possible to even contemplate McChrystal being removed from his command? My instincts tell me that we're about to endure a fancy bit of White House shame-pageantry: McChrystal comes hat in hand, he and the President have a heart-to-heart, and in the end, everyone gets back to work. That's how I see it playing out if only because McChrystal has essentially become the living avatar of counterinsurgency strategy itself.
AP | ANNE GEARAN and JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama rebuked his Afghanistan war commander for "poor judgment" Tuesday and considered whether to fire him in the ...
Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The editor of the news-making article about General Stanley McChrystal said Tuesday morning that the general and his team knew they were on the recor...
Posted 05.25.2011
Duncan Boothby, a "senior media aide" to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has resigned in the wake of an explosive Rolling Stone expose that features McChryst...
Posted 05.25.2011
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's candid Rolling Stone interview prompted the White House to summon McChrystal, the most senior military commander in Afghanis...
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011