Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: War on Iraq. October 14, 2008. "It's not a promise to allow women to serve equally, but the recognition that women are already in serving in combat."
Spencer Ackerman, Attackerman AlterNet: PEEK. May 20, 2008. Troop shortages require that all soldiers rotated into Iraq this spring come from the National Guard.
Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com. December 5, 2007. According to the Bush Administration, the worse things go in Iraq, the more our military is needed; and the better they go, the more our military is needed.
Ira Chernus, Tomdispatch.com. September 25, 2007. Every war is experienced as dramatic spectacle -- the more mythic the better. It's no coincidence that the military refers to a battle zone as a "theater."
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. August 22, 2007. Modern American military training methods can turn off the switch that controls a human being's inherent aversion to killing.
Peter Beaumont, The Observer UK. August 13, 2007. Exhaustion and combat stress are besieging US troops in Iraq, leaving the army with a major shortfall of combat-ready brigades. Can the military cope?
Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com. August 2, 2007. The Congressional benchmarks we keep hearing about are almost completely beside the point. They don’t even represent the key goals of the “surge.”
Benjamin H. Friedman, MIT Center for International Studies. July 25, 2007. A bipartisan consensus wants to expand the American ground forces. But the expansion serves a failed strategy that relies on military occupations and state-building to fight terrorism. A better strategy is to avoid these missions and the troop expansion.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. June 7, 2007. Joe Lieberman says he's "really upset" with the troops for not "speaking from their heart" when he visited them in Iraq two weeks ago.
Winslow Wheeler, AlterNet. May 24, 2007. A recent study shows startling findings about the widespread abuse of Iraqi civilians by U.S. troops. When the "surge" fails, will we take a hard look at ourselves in the mirror?
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. April 25, 2007. Blame it on the military but make it look like you're supporting the troops. That's been the convenient gambit of failed emperors throughout history.
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