The Rise of Petraeus
The promotion puts the U.S. military's premier advocate, theorist and practitioner of counterinsurgency operations at the helm of the military's most important regional command.
The promotion puts the U.S. military's premier advocate, theorist and practitioner of counterinsurgency operations at the helm of the military's most important regional command.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
While Clinton and Obama trade blows, the Republicans are slowly winning the war over the war. And Democrats are doing very little to stop them.
Columbia Journalism Review | Paul McLeary | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
Last week, the news from Iraq was grim. Five U.S. soldiers were killed near Mosul, two female suicide bombers killed scores of civilians in Baghdad, a...
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
It was the crescendo of an otherwise flat State of the Union address. "Ladies and Gentlemen," President George W. Bush declared Monday night, "some ma...
Reuters | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it ...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Thomas Ricks | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic offici...
Washinton Times | Sara Carter | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
Iran's leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Was...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...
Politico | Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Vice President Cheney today predicted Iraq will be a self-governing democracy by the time he leaves office, calling the current U.S. surge strategy "a...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.17.2007 | Politics
When the State Department, the Justice Department, and the executive branch decide that they're not answerable to Congress, and the American people, there is nothing left but the illusion of a representative government.
NY Post | DAVID SEIFMAN | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
In his most detailed comments on the Iraq war, Mayor Bloomberg last night suggested the United States was in the same difficult position as the Britis...
The New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 09.25.2007 | Home
Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal lea...
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Spencer Ackerman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics