Scholars and the Military Share a Foxhole, Uneasily
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At Harvard, some faculty and activists have been troubled that the universityâs Carr Center for Human Rights Policy helped revise the counterinsurgency field manual.
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NATO planners gave a withering assessment of the West's defense arsenal on Tuesday, saying their forces are sometimes unable to talk to each other on the ground because costly defense systems are not compatible.
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Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change.
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An ambitious, if flawed, show at the National Museum of American History is billed as this country's first comprehensive exhibition of its military history.
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Beyond its prescriptions for fixing Iraq, the special commission that studied a new approach to the war also spotlighted less obvious military ills that have deepened as fighting has dragging on.
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A documentary called âObsession: Radical Islamâs War Against the Westâ has become the latest flashpoint in the bitter campus debate over the Middle East.
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Intelligence-gathering by the front-line forces that need to know the most is proving difficult in a region increasingly gripped by fear.
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It's a mystery even for researchers at the Smithsonian Institution:
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Some graduates say it's the chip-on-your-shoulder culture. Some say it's the Christian Brothers, the Catholic teaching order that has run the school for 157 years and preaches a pragmatic use of intellect. Some say it's the fierce competition for grades and respect. Or the military component. Wha...
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It isn't just politicians who want to read "The Iraq Study Group Report."
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A TIME investigation reveals how militants in Iraq are devising innovative ways to make the war deadlier than ever for U.S. troops
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Jarret Brachman recently told a class of West Point cadets that many Americans had an unsophisticated image of Islamic terrorists &#151; that they live in caves, "you know, beating the women over their heads." On the contrary, the U.S. is fighting a far more technologically savvy enemy &#151; one adept at both propaganda and Power Point &#151; said Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
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The problems at the US Army hospital show how strained military resources have become.
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Desperately short of soldiers who speak Arabic and understand Islam, the U.S. military is quietly courting American Muslims. But they show little enthusiasm for an institution many say is prejudiced against them.
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IBRAHIM BIN ALI, Iraq -- The mud sucked at the soldiers' boots as they crept across the wet pasture after dawn. To their right, Humvees and tanks tracked the soldiers' progress from a narrow dirt road. To their left and in front stood cinder-block huts, shaded by date palm trees, where they believed...
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One of the latest tools being deployed in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan seems to be old-fashioned. Think weather balloons or blimps.
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Military and civilian interrogators in Iraq who have long relied on the element of surprise and fear of the unknown find themselves having to explain their methods.