The Runaway General
“Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.”
War
Why Is America Getting a New $100 Billion Nuclear Weapon?
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
Two Soldiers
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
In Plain Sight
The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.
The Enemy Is Here
On the twilight of the Iranian Revolution.
Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy
A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.
If My Scars Could Talk
How acute childhood trauma infects and compromises relationships later in life.
Death of a Freelancer
On the death of a young reporter named Christopher Allen and the state of conflict journalism.
The Things That Carried Him
Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.
The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret
How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.
Best Article Reprints Arts Movies & TV
The Great Escape
How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. The declassified story that became Ben Affleck’s Argo.
The Coldest War
High in the Karakoram, where the stubborn armies of India and Pakistan face off.
The Most Dangerous Game
The parallel lives of a KGB defector and his CIA handler.
The Killer Elite
Published across three consecutive issues and later adapted into the book (and mini-series) Generation Kill, the story of bullets, bombs and a Marine platoon at war in Iraq.
Love Letters From the Battlefield
How words kept the author’s grandparents connected during the Second World War.
“Oh My God—We Hit a Little Girl”
The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The International Congress for Kids Whose Dads Are Commie Draft Dodgers"
Children engage in their own democratic process.
Ballots and Bloodshed
The militarization of local politics in South Africa.
Axes of Evil
Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.
Pentagon’s Top Official for East Asia Led Think Tank Funded by Defense Contractors and Foreign Governments
One expert warns that policies advanced by the think tank could lead to military conflict with China.
General Steve
A former US Army officer is now a general for a country accused of war crimes.
Enlisting an Audience
How Hollywood peddles propaganda.
How the U.S. Is Making the War in Yemen Worse
Why are we still involved?
The Liberation of Tam Minh Pham
In 1970, he was plucked from Saigon to attend West Point. He got his degree and went home to fight, but instead spent six years in a reeducation camp. Then, somehow, he ended up teaching high school in D.C.
Giving "The Devil" His Due
Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.
