By Anwaar Hussain
Robert Michael Gates, the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense, spoke at a press conference recently in Kabul.  “There is still much fighting ahead, and there will assuredly be more dark days….but there is reason to be hopeful that Afghan and coalition forces can rout the hardest elements of the Taliban and establish [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Chilcot Inquiry was set up by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to inquire into Iraq war covering a period from 2001–2009. The hearings are being held in public unless there are “compelling reasons” for witnesses to be heard in private. The inquiry started at the end of July 2009, after the return of most [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
President Obama’s decision to surge the troops’ level in Afghanistan is understandable. That is the only thing America can do in fact. They cannot just pack their bags and go home. They are losing the war with the present troop strength. All other conventional tactics have been tried out. The troop surge in [...]

By Anwaar Hussain
Strange title, eh? Wait a bit please.
Hoh is the surname of a former Marine who fought in Iraq and became a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan and who on September 10 this year resigned in a high-profile protest of the Afghan war. In so doing, Matthew Hoh became the first ever [...]

by Milton Bearden
As the United States settles into its eighth year of military operations in Afghanistan, and as plans for ramping up U.S. troop strength are under way, we might reflect on an observation made by the Chinese military sage, Sun Tzu, about twenty-five hundred years ago:
In military campaigns I have heard of awkward speed [...]

By Bill Noxid
The most disturbing consequence of the election of the first African-American president is the delusional rush to pretend that this country that was founded ( and continues to function ) on genocide and slavery, is somehow “past” racism.  Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth, and the fact that society as a [...]

By David Cole
The story of America’s descent into torture in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been told now by many writers. Mark Danner, Jane Mayer, and Ron Suskind have written brilliant expositions of the facts, showing how the drive to prevent the next attack led the administration’s highest [...]