How Afghan “veteran” Sebastian Junger promotes PTSD denial and dismissal.
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Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2012
Brass Backwards
Thomas Ricks explains the declining competence of America’s senior military commanders.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2012, Magazine
Fighting the Last War
As president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe triumphed over a fierce narco-insurgency. Then the U.S. helped to export his strategy to Mexico and throughout Latin America. Here’s why it’s not working.
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2011, Law and Justice, Magazine
The Unquiet Life of Franz Gayl
A tech-savvy Marine who made too much noise, helped save the lives of countless troops in Iraq, and paid with his career.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April 2011
Ike Reconsidered
How conservatives ignored, and liberals misconstrued, Eisenhower’s warnings about military spending.
Posted inMagazine, March 2005
The Case for the Draft
America can remain the world’s superpower. Or it can maintain its current all-volunteer military. It can’t do both.
Posted inMagazine
The Wins of War
World War II would rank right at the top of the list of subjects most likely to defeat any attempt to fulfill the writer’s basic mission: “make it new.” The war is too immense (could it be the single most extensive human endeavor in the history of the world?) and too well written about already by […]
Posted inDecember 1983
South Vietnam: The Puppet as Puppeteer
It’s now exactly 20 years since Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Nhu were found murdered in the back of an armored car. Of the dozens of decisive moments in the history of the Vietnam war, the Diem coup and the chaos in Saigon that immediately followed are beginning to look especially significant. Suddenly in […]
Posted inSeptember 1982
Sam Nunn: Can He Escape the Respectability Trap?
From time to time the political landscape shifts in such a way that an aperture flicks open, revealing with some certainty which issues will dominate the decades ahead, and which people will dominate those issues. One of the issues, of course, is national defense, a subject that relates not only to national security, but to […]
Posted inMay 1982
Misfire: How Pentagon Critics Shot Down Their Own Ace
Last month this magazine set out to explain in some detail how the defense budget could be cut without hurting national security. There were two reasons we devoted so much space to the defense issue: first, the enormous importance of the subject for the future of the American economy and military; and second, our sense […]
