Last January, Carl Conetta of the Commonwealth Institute's Project for Defense Alternatives wrote a paper titled "An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2…
Nicolas J.S. Davies
The documents on the U.S. War in Iraq published by Wikileaks contained data on 15,000 Iraqis killed in incidents that were previously…
Afghanistan is known as the “graveyard of empires.” But just why do empires keep sending thousands of their young people to die…
On May 11, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced plans to install three-star Army Lieutenant General Stan McChrystal as the top U.S. and…
In his first press conference on February 9, President Obama tried to justify attacks by U.S. Predator and Raptor drones that are…
As the destruction of Iraq has progressed, the country beyond the walls of the Green Zone in Baghdad has become deadly for…
I n December, the Iraq Study Group (also known as the BakerHamilton Commission) published the most candid review of the crisis in…
O ver a year ago an international team of epidemiologists, head- ed by Les Roberts of Johns Hop- kins School of Public…
On September 8, 2005 the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq issued a human rights report, stating that the governing institutions created by…
I n “The Crime of War: from Nuremberg to Fallujah” ( Z Magazine , February 2005), I described how the war in…