Recently, the New York Times broke a story suggesting that the U.S. Army and the Marines were about to turn the conceptual…
With a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon holding, the ever-hotter war in Iraq is once again creeping back onto newspaper front…
What happened in Haditha? Ā The best account I have found appeared in the Washington Post on June 3, in an article…
Media coverage of the Iraq War has generally portrayed the current quagmire as the result of an American failure to achieve a…
The media loves anniversaries, the grimmer the better. On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, our newspapers and TV news…
Ā The December elections in Iraq did not initiate a period of state building, but instead marked an expanding, many-sided conflict whose…
President Bush marked the Iraqi election of December 2005 as the beginning of a new era. A freely selected permanent government would…
[Correction: After various experts wrote in, kindly offering help, revisions were made on January 14, 2005 to the statistics this piece offered,…
I often receive emails — pro and con — about my postings on the war in Iraq, and I try to respond…
So much of the Iraq war operates below the radar screen of the mainstream media that we rarely glimpse what is really…
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