The construction projects are sprouting like mushrooms: walled complexes, high-strength weapons vaults, and underground bunkers with command and control capacities — and…

Some go by names steeped in military tradition like Leatherneck and Geronimo. Many sound fake-tough, like Ramrod, Lightning, Cobra, and Wolverine. Some display a local flavor,…

Quick — name the five most important, influential, and best known books on the Afghan War. Okay, name three. Okay, I'll settle…

With the arrival of General David Petraeus as Afghan War commander, there has been ever more talk about the meaning of “success”…

I’ve never heard a shot fired in anger. But I might know a little bit more about war than Sebastian Junger. Previously…

Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are livid with BP in the wake of the massive, never-ending oil spill in the Gulf…

In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by British forces. In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling…

One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan’s Helmand province,…

In his book on World War II in the Pacific, War Without Mercy, John Dower tells an extraordinary tale about the changing…

Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that well over 100,000 U.S. troops are…