Anarchy is on the march

""I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research until March 2005. "You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would...

Marines without a Beach and Soldiers as Citizen Journalists

"I just finished William Langewiesche’s amazing ‘Rules of Engagement’ piece in Vanity Fair. He uses the Haditha massacre as a window onto “the observable realities of an expanding guerrilla war—about mistakes that have been made and, regrettably,...

METH Inc.: The route to Minnesota

"He was a point man for a shadowy, cunning cartel in Mexico that federal authorities say now dominates the illicit meth trade besieging Minnesota and the Midwest."

The Shame Of Kilo Company (Michael Duffy/Time)

"The Shame Of Kilo Company  —  Sparked by a TIME report published in March, a U.S. military investigation is probing the killing of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians by a group of Marines in the town of Haditha last November.  Several Marines may face...