Stanley A. McChrystal

In the darkest days of the Iraq War, the highly secretive Joint Special Operations Command emerged as one of the most influential institutions in government.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.

Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.