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Rep. Eric Massa VIDEO: War In Afghanistan Must End

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


2,950. That's the number that echoes throughout Rep. Eric Massa's (D-N.Y.) five minute speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, as he fer...

U.S.-Colombia Military Deal Angers Activists

BBC | Posted 11.05.2009 | World


Colombian opposition groups have reacted angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US were made public....

Last Plan for Afghanistan

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 11.03.2009 | World


Stewart Nusbaumer

Plan Z is one of those rare strategies that is hatched not from the mind of confused strategic thinkers by from the womb of Americana. What is Plan Z? Buy the bad guys.

Catch-22 in Afghanistan

William Astore | Posted 11.03.2009 | World


William Astore

As we send more troops to stiffen Afghani government forces and to stabilize the state, that high-profile presence will serve to demoralize Afghani troops and ultimately to destabilize the state.

Obama Seeking Options To Send Fewer Troops To Afghanistan

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World


President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...

Iraq Troops Sing Karaoke, Join Book Clubs, Rarely Go To War

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | World


A new USA Today article has some interesting details about how U.S. troops stationed in Iraq are spending their time these days. Soccer makes the lis...

Military Report On Iraq Stress Clinic Killing Spree: Soldier Showed Obvious Signs Of Unraveling

AP | REBECCA SANTANA and CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — The soldier at the center of the military's worst soldier-on-soldier violence in six years had gone to four counseling sessions. His r...

Robert Pape: To Beat The Taliban, Fight From Afar

nytimes.com | ROBERT A. PAPE | Posted 10.15.2009 | World


AS President Obama and his national security team confer this week to consider strategies for Afghanistan, one point seems clear: our current military...

Inside Afghanistan's "Black Hawk Down"

nytimes.com | THOM SHANKER | Posted 10.03.2009 | World


The battle of Wanat is being described as the "Black Hawk Down" of Afghanistan, with the 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three...

McChrystal Rejects Calls To Lower Afghan Aims

New York Times | JOHN F. BURNS and ALAN COWELL | Posted 10.01.2009 | World


The top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, rejected calls for scaling down military objectives there on Thursday and said ...

The Forgotten War

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

No so very long ago, Afghanistan was known as "the forgotten war." But these days, Afghanistan is hard to miss in the headlines. Obama needs to begin talking about our newly-forgotten war: Iraq.

Joe Klein: The Afghanistan Problem -- Why Are We In Helmand?

TIME | Joe Klein Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009 | Posted 09.17.2009 | World


In addition to all the other problems we're facing -- the corruption of the Karzai government, the election chaos, the porous Pakistani border -- it h...

Iraq Troops' PTSD Rate As High As 35 Percent: New Study

physorg.com | Posted 09.15.2009 | World


The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers antici...

Poll: Support For Afghan War At All-Time Low

CNN Politics | Paul Steinhauser | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time low, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey r...

Lawmakers May Push Obama For Timetable On Afghanistan

abcnews.go.com | JONATHAN KARL and Z. BYRON WOLF | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


Sen. Carl Levin's announcement today that he opposes sending more U.S. combat troops to Afghanistan is a big deal, but President Obama's Afghan policy...

'We're Pinned Down:' 4 U.S. Marines Die In Afghan Ambush

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.08.2009 | World


GANJGAL, Afghanistan -- We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountains...

U.S. Withdraws Forces From Iraq, Prepares To Spend Near $1 Billion Hiring Private Guards

washingtonpost.com | Walter Pincus | Posted 11.08.2009 | World


As the United States withdraws its combat forces from Iraq, the government is hiring more private guards to protect U.S. installations at a cost that ...

Chalabi Aide: I Went From White House To Secret U.S. Prisoner

McClatchy | Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused hi...

Why Andrew Krepinevich Is Wrong About US Military Strategy

Antiwar.com | Jeff Huber | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


The problem with retired Army light colonel Andrew Krepinevich, the self-described "expert on US military strategy," isn't so much that he says silly ...

Military Contractors and Our Buck-Stops-Nowhere "Wars"

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Frank Schaeffer

I have less and less respect for the way our civilian leaders lack the courage to tell the truth about our wars.

Gates And Mullen Counter Afghanistan Frustration

The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that the U.S. forces must work to "turn around" the security situation in Afgha...

Arthur Delaney

Rebecca Johnston, Mother Of Four Featured In Obama Infomercial, Is Headed To Boot Camp

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


Rebecca Johnston, the mother of four featured in Barack Obama's 30-minute campaign infomercial last fall, will be shipping off to boot camp next Wedne...

The Hurt Locker and Iraq

James Denselow | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


James Denselow

Tthe bomb disposal expert in a self-contained suit approaches IEDs like an urban astronaut, symbolic of the otherworldly status that Iraq has achieved.

Soldier Returning From Iraq Not Allowed To See Her Daughter

New York Times | DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


During the 10 months she was deployed in Iraq, Leydi Mendoza, a 22-year-old specialist in the New Jersey National Guard, did everything she could thin...