Ask, Tell, Don’t Kill Ask, Tell, Don’t Kill
Seventeen years after Bill Clinton's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" compromise, the institutionalized closet in the military should soon be gone. With the Senate vote to repeal, ...
Dec 21, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Invading Pakistan? The Worst Idea Yet Invading Pakistan? The Worst Idea Yet
From dumb to dumber in Afghanistan: the US military wants to use Special Forces to invade Pakistan.
Dec 21, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
War in Yemen? John Brennan at Carnegie War in Yemen? John Brennan at Carnegie
President Obama's chief adviser on counterterrorism is mum on whether the administration is planning a covert war In Yemen.
Dec 20, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Getting Out of Iraq in 2011: Looks Like It Getting Out of Iraq in 2011: Looks Like It
The Obama administration, the Pentagon, and the Brookings Institution might want to keep American troops in Iraq for years, but the Iraqis have other ideas.
Dec 20, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks
Why did the senior State Department representative resign from his Afghanistan post? The full interview.
Dec 17, 2010 / Barbara Koeppel
How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan How the Afghan Counterinsurgency Threatens Pakistan
Our war has radicalized Pakistanis, turning many against the West and their own government.
Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Anatol Lieven
Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks Matthew Hoh’s Afghanistan: An Insider Talks
Why did the senior State Department representative resign from his Afghanistan post?
Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Barbara Koeppel
Tossing the Afghan COIN Tossing the Afghan COIN
The US military's reinvented counterinsurgency turns out to be the same old brutal game.
Dec 16, 2010 / Feature / Michael A. Cohen
Afghan Review: ‘Lookin’ Good,’ Says Obama Afghan Review: ‘Lookin’ Good,’ Says Obama
It's mostly spin, not substance, and the real fight over what to do in Afghanistan will come early next spring.
Dec 16, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
A Flood of Drone Strikes A Flood of Drone Strikes
What the WikiLeaks revelations tell us about how Washington runs Pakistan.
Dec 9, 2010 / Fatima Bhutto