There has been a qualitative leap in military technology that makes all inherited conventional wisdom, and war as an instrument of political policy, utterly irrelevant, not just to the United States but also to any other state that embarks upon it. Nations should have...
U.S. casualties, which are at a post-invasion high: According to an Associated Press analysis, more American troops were "killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months – at least 334 through Jan. 31 – than in any comparable stretch since the war began";...
If "reporters" covering the Scooter Libby trial for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice had bothered to read President Bush's Executive Order 12958 of March 28, 2003 – entitled "Classified National Security Information" – they would know that it does...
As Iraq slides into the abyss [.pdf], and the domestic reverberations of the conflict shake American politics, the question of who lied us into war is being raised – and not just by Democrats. There is a growing suspicion that we didn't just get the intelligence...
Updated at 12:25 a.m. EST, Feb. 14, 2007 On the first anniversary of the Golden Dome bombing, at least 138 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 209 were injured in separate events. One extensive bombing occurred at a market in the capital. A GI was...
Updated at 1:15 a.m. EST, Feb. 12, 2007 At least 114 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 130 were wounded in various incidents. These deaths comes a day after Gen. David Petraeus took formal command of U.S. troops in Iraq and during increased U.S. military...
As the fables about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and clandestine ties with al-Qaeda began to unravel following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the flagship of U.S. news reporting, The New York Times, took itself to task for its failure to challenge its...
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are unwittingly playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in helping the state of Israel commit suicide. For this is the inevitable consequence of the planned air and missile attack on Iran. The pockmarked, littered landscape...
NEW DELHI – As tension builds up in the Persian Gulf amidst the ongoing deployment of two United States aircraft carrier groups, India remains marginal to efforts for a diplomatic solution to the crisis over Iran's nuclear activities, despite New Delhi's...
Updated at 11:01 a.m. EST, Feb. 11, 2007 At least 87 Iraqis were killed and 41 wounded in various incidents. Also, U.S. authorities reported that three GIs were killed and four wounded yesterday during an explosion in the Diyala province. Also, U.S forces killed an...
