US Wars and Military Action

Thousands Protest SOA Thousands Protest SOA

A report from the SOA protests at Ft. Benning.

Nov 23, 2004 / Feature / Patrick Mulvaney

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

For some time now, American political discussion has seemed to revolve around little stock phrases, such as "defining moment" (at the time of the first Gulf War), "the end of his...

Nov 18, 2004 / Jonathan Schell

The Costs of War The Costs of War

TERI WILLS ALLISON Teri Wills Allison, a massage therapist and a member of Military Families Speak Out, lives near Austin, Texas.

Nov 4, 2004 / Feature / Various Contributors

War Games War Games

In the players' handbooks that once circulated among commedia dell'arte troupes, the wandering actors of early modern Italy used to set down inventories of the lazzi, or comic tu...

Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Iraq’s Civilian Casualties Iraq’s Civilian Casualties

The civilians of Falluja are negotiating to stave off a threatened US-led military incursion.

Oct 28, 2004 / Jefferson Morley

Because We Could Because We Could

When George H.W.

Oct 21, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Cockburn

Tarantara! Tarantara!

Twenty months ago, when the Bush Administration was steering the country toward war in Iraq, we noted a parallel with another military misadventure, the Spanish-American War, in ...

Oct 14, 2004 / Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton

Letter From Poland Letter From Poland

Bush has managed to puncture Poles' image of America as essentially good.

Sep 16, 2004 / Feature / David Ost

Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero

Why does the United States--born in a people's war for national independence from the greatest empire of its time--have such a difficult time understanding the people's wars of i...

Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell

A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968

I wasn't really for the war. But all my kin, in wars before, Had gone when called. I couldn't flee. No, Canada was not for me. Another thing that I was not

Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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