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Not quite a dozen years after the New York Times heaped editorial praise on then-Secretary of State Colin Powell for presenting at the United Nations a 'powerful case' and 'convincing [...]

During a September 2007 visit to Anbar Province in western Iraq, President George W. Bush stated, 'Anbar is a huge province. It was once written off as lost. It is [...]

ACCORDING TO an April 2008 poll in U.S. News & World Report, fully 61 percent of American historians agree that George W. Bush is the worst President in our history. [...]

Editorial Abstract: The author, an Italian Air Force officer, compares operations with Italian Predator unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in Iraq with past and present US Predator doctrine and operations. After [...]

YOU, THE IRAQI army and police forces, don't walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy.' (1) This call for solidarity amongst indigenous security forces (ISF) and domestic insurgents [...]

Shane Farrar isn't counting the days until his stepfather, Sergeant First Class Richard Botsford, returns home again from Iraq. 'I don't want to get disappointed,' the 14-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, [...]

They roar in every day, usually direct from the Landstuhl US air-force base in the Rhineland: giant C-17 cargo planes capable of lifting and flying the 65-tonne M1 Abrams tank […]

The platoon trudges across a muddy field of saw grass toward a white stucco dwelling. This house is one of many that Marines are searching for possible insurgents. Weapons are [...]

The modular units now on the ground in Iraq are very different from the support units that helped drive Saddam Hussein from power in 2003. Modular brigade support battalions (BSBs) [...]

When Saddam Hussein fell, the Iraqi people gained freedom. What they didn't get was public order. Looting began immediately, and by the time it abated, signs of an insurgency had [...]

When an Airman mentions he's been 'outside the wire' in Iraq, that usually raises eyebrows. It's a little like telling someone you've 'pressed carpet' inside the White House. It's simply [...]

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of Congress the Medal of Honor to Sergeant First [...]

Editorial Abstract: In keeping with the American way of war, when our combat forces deploy, they are accompanied by units dedicated solely to rescue operations. Even though we rarely called [...]

The 203d Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion is the Army's only tactical technical intelligence (TECHINT) asset. Doctrinally, TECHINT is intelligence derived from the exploitation of foreign equipment. The TECHINT process begins [...]

The lessons learned in Operation Iraqi Freedom about RFID extend well beyond the defense environment. They speak to the opportunities for any organization--large or small, government or commercial--to fundamentally transform [...]

Iraq, Libya, Syria, Nigeria, Afghanistan: they are all in danger of becoming black holes in which the nastiest and weirdest groups can thrive. The only credible response is to turn […]

In my 1950s childhood, Ripley's Believe It or Not was part of everyday life, a syndicated comics page feature where you could stumble upon such mind-boggling facts as: "If all [...]

Of the 446 American soldiers who died as of Dec. 10 last year as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 27 of them were Floridians. The oldest [...]

For a military accustomed to quick, easy victories, the trials and tribulations of the Iraq War have come as a rude awakening. To its credit, the officer corps has responded [...]

ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, the world changed. It changed irrevocably for many people throughout the world and for none more so than the citizens of the USA when 3000 innocent [...]

AS WE APPROACH FIVE YEARS since the liberation of Iraq, it still appears too soon to tell if it's been a success or not. From a humanitarian intervention point of [...]

IT'S A TOUGH SELL, to say the least. But with the war against Iraq now entering its fifth year, with it having lasted longer than U.S. involvement in the Second [...]

IT'S NOT EXACTLY ROCKET SCIENCE. FORMER SENAtor George McGovern and noted foreign policy analyst William R. Polk have published a detailed exit plan in their book, Out of Iraq: A [...]

Modern combat operations expose Soldiers to many potential environmental health hazards, including the possibility of chemical, biological, or nuclear attacks. The effects of exposure to health hazards during combat operations [...]

As OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM and OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM have extended over the past few years, the combat experience of our aircrews, maintainers and support personnel has continued to grow. As [...]

Real men want to go to Tehran.' So went the mordant barroom quip--variously attributed to Undersecretary of State John Bolton and other neoconservative hawks--during the long buildup to the U.S.-led [...]

When you push the Iraqi people, and you harm the Iraqi people, you will just cause them to fight back harder. The idea that force will be enough to calm [...]

Sand Brim, a member of Code Pink, traveled in Iraq with a group of women from Code Pink; including Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, in early February. They visited Baghdad, [...]