War

A famous utterance attributed to General Robert E. Lee during the U.S. Civil War is, u201cIt is well that war is so terrible u2013 lest we should grow too …

Since 9/11, the campaign for homeland security has increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies its sought to crush.

As tensions escalate, eerie echoes of the run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are in the air.

In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere.

Kidnapping civilians is plainly a serious crime – unless, of course, they are mere unpeople.

If the Department of Defense was required to do real “should-cost” studies, the historical overpricing would be obvious.

Former Gen. Petraeus has long been eager to please the neoconservatives in Washington and their friends in Israel by creating “intelligence” to portray Iran and other target countries in …

The roots of how the military ended up with this expensive but broken logistics disaster can be placed directly on Rumsfeld and his build up before the war.

Song Kang-ho, an activist opposing a naval base under construction, near the construction site, in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea, August 2, 2011. (Photo: Jean Chung / …

The horrifying atrocities of September 11 are new in world affairs, not in their scale and character, but in the target.