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KABUL — Military divers have found the body of a U.S. soldier who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to recover a...
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Far from winding down, the numbers of wounded U.S. soldiers coming home have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute am...
Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...
AP | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spent nearly two hours visiting wounded U.S. soldiers Friday afternoon. The president met with 19 soldiers ...
Tom Matzzie | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Obama didn't have to go to Dover. Bush never went we're told. He could've stayed at the White House and kept some distance from the war. But instead he put himself firmly in front as commander in chief.
thebrooklynink.com | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
The minute Olsen Hill saw the uniforms at his door, he knew. He had served in the military. No words were necessary. His son, Kevin O. Hill, was de...
Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books
The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?
Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
Wednesday marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. The notable date comes as the United States fiercely debates the future of...
guardian.co.uk | Posted 09.29.2009 | Technology
Professor Pieslak is a music theorist at the City College of New York. Over the past few years he has interviewed US soldiers about the music they lis...
Thomas Scheff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
My research proposes two basic causes of depression: Hidden emotions, and no secure bond with another person. These ideas lead to a practical therapy for depression that might be effective for the Army.
nytimes.com | Benedict Carey | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
The sight was not that unusual, at least not for Mosul, Iraq, on a summer morning: a car parked on the sidewalk, facing opposite traffic, its windows ...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
For once, American manufacturers are producing the best weapons ahead of schedule, and will save lives of men who would die without them.
AFP | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
The US military in Afghanistan has stopped releasing figures showing how many militants have been killed in fighting with US-led forces, officials sai...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LOLITA BALDOR | Posted 08.18.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured, a...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
Pass this message on so that all may know the price of freedom
Dahr Jamail | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
In addition to small numbers of outright public refusals to deploy or redeploy, troops are going absent without official leave (AWOL) between deployments, and actual desertions may once again be on the rise.
Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad's backgr...
AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan killed two U.S. troops Friday, the U.S. military said. The explosion occu...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
When two American journalists are sent to prison in a foreign country, shouldn't the news organization at least support them and assuage public outrage by acknowledging and covering the situation on its own site?
AP | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed in a grenade attack in northern Iraq. A statement says the Multi-National Divis...
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
My son - who is non-verbal and severely impacted by autism - has been heavily recruited by the military.
Cheryl Saban | Posted 06.24.2009 | Living
This weekend I'll bow my head and offer my respect, admiration, and gratitude to our service men and women, past, present, and future. And as a peacenik, I will also be praying that one day, we'll find another way to resolve our differences.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
Hopefully, in between the barbecues and the parades, our citizens will reflect on both the physical and emotional challenges that our service women have -- and continue -- to face.
Danger Room | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs, or even those infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they're goin...
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AP | Posted 11.11.2009 | World