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GOOD and Catalogtree look at the statistics behind the Senate's activity (or inactivity) over the last 20 years.
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The most significant parallel between Afghanistan and Vietnam isn't the potential quagmire abroad. Comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam...
If al Qaeda needs Afghanistan as a safe haven, we can't afford to leave. The complexities of Afghanistan defy salvation by the answer to any...
I guess I've kind of known that the breakdown of troops in Afghanistan involved a lot of private security officers. However, after stumbling upon...
The goal in Afghanistan, as the World Blog writer Richard Engel interprets it, is to "convince militants to stop fighting and to persuade Afghans...
Of all the awfulness of war, the coming home part can be worse. Over the weekend, The New York Times featured an important story about the...
Will they ever get along? Here are the differences that get in the way.
This is a disturbing story. Those unmanned drones we've been using in Iraq and Afghanistan had some unforeseen security holes and got...
Heroin makes Lou Reed feel like Jesus, and it won't leave Guns N' Roses alone, but how does it end up here in the United States? We take a...
One college student ditched class to photograph Iraq. Chad Cress is an aspiring photographer in his senior year at Biola University in La Mirada,...
In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail...
So, the U.S. military has recently introduced a new preemptive tactic in the war on terror: Giving cows to the widows of Iraqis we've killed....
Why has Argentina been unable to sustain a democracy? Why has establishing Iraq's been particularly dicey? According to the Harvard economist...
There's a problem brewing over the skies of Iraq, and it's not weather related. Thanks to a new generation of cheaper, smaller robots, Iraqi...
We've learned about robots that spy, rescue, aid, survey, and defuse. In the final episode of our "Military Robots" series, we encounter robots...
Robots are assisting soldiers both on the battlefield and off. Some 30,000 men and women have lost limbs over the course of the conflict in...
The capture of the U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers was one of the tensest incidents of the Cold War. In modern warfare, high-flying surveillance...