3 hours ago by Ryan McCarl

My latest op-ed, "Two cents about COIN," appeared today on Antiwar.com. It discusses the the growing faith of U.S. political and military leaders in the military doctrine of COIN, or manpower-intensive counterinsurgency warfare. You can find the op-ed here as well as pasted below; if you enjoy this ...

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9 hours ago by disembedded

Tattooed Under Fire: Fort Hood, War Experiences Inked on the Body American’s are deeply saddened by the shooting tragedy at Fort Hood, an attack by Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan on Thursday that killed 13 people and wounded 30 others on the Texas base. Fort Hood is the largest U.S. milita ...

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9 hours ago by Democrashield

The Democratic leadership is being forced to bring the Stupak amendment to a vote in order to have a shot at passing health care reform. If the amendment passes–which is likely–it will mean that: Private insurers will have to drop abortion coverage from plans that have it (which is most of them) in ...

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16 hours ago by SE

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20 hours ago by Bookyards

Understanding the Surge - The Trailer from ISW on Vimeo. From Big Hollywood: Earlier this year, I met with Washington’s Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization, with some of the most accomplished academics in the field of military affairs. ...

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1 day ago by Simon Crowe

The giant wink at the audience that is The Men Who Stare At Goats boasts a strong cast and unusual source material (Jon Ronson's book about the U.S. Army's parapsychological warfare efforts) but winds up being as smug and dramatically inert as an episode of Frontline. The film, directed by Grant Hes ...

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1 day ago by thenewbriansig

There’s an application on Facebook that asks people what they think are the five most significant dates of the 2000s. The keyword here is “date.” I took some time to think it over, coming up with the criteria that the dates had to be ones where everyone stopped whatever it is they were doing and hea ...

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1 day ago by Editors

“It is possible that having been at Walter Reed and having heard all these stories and been an Army psychiatrist and then knowing that he was going to deploy, that all of that caused him to snap,” said Aaron Glantz, editor of New America Media who focuses on the effects of the Iraq War on U.S. milit ...

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1 day ago by Sue J

I won’t presume to know exactly what drove Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to suddenly open fire on his colleagues. But from news accounts so far, we know this about him: as a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he witnessed daily the very real effects of war. And we also know (and Maj. Hasan ce ...

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1 day ago by Johanna Neuman

A witness has told investigators that the Army major who allegedly opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood Army Base Thursday shouted "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic for "God is Great" and the rallying cry of suicide bombers around the world -- before unleashing his bloody assault that left 13 dead ...

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