Separating the war from the warrior
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WASHINGTON Thirteen years after the 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, announced that America had &quot;kicked the Vietnam syndrome&quot; with his crushing expulsion of Saddam Hussein&#39;s forces from Kuwait, the war in Vietnam is back.
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FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- When Lieutenant General David Petraeus was reassigned last year from a top command in Iraq to this sprawling Army complex in the heartland where new leaders are trained, many in the military saw it as a move to sideline a potential critic from Pentagon decision-making.
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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TETOUAN, Morocco -- In the Arab world, this North African city is about as far as you can get from Iraq. But for many young men, the call to join what they view as a holy war resonates loudly across the 3,000-mile divide.
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For many men, loyalty is sacred. Except when it isn't.
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Women&#39;s bodies have become part of the terrain of conflict, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Rape and sexual abuse are not just a by-product of war but are used as a deliberate military strategy, it says.
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John Kerry&#39;s tour of duty in Vietnam has defined his bid for the White House. He is the warrior candidate who heroically led men into battle but who came home to almost as bravely question the very war for which his comrades gave so much blood.
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The war in Iraq has now lasted longer than the U.S. involvement in the war that President Bush's father fought in, World War II.
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This top-of-the-line equipment blurs the line between hunting and military operations.
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By MATT COLEMAN  It's easy to take instant communication for granted with the accessibility of cell phones and the Internet. This becomes a little more difficult when the person you're communicating with is in a war zone.
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Coercion doesnât work. Empathy is a more powerful tool than you might think. A veteran Air Force interrogator who grilled prisoners in Iraq talks about how to gather information during wartime.
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Add long working days in 110 degree heat with the threat of death at the hands of insurgents. Subtract families, friends and spouses the troops are separated from by thousands of miles. Multiply by a yearlong tour. The result, sometimes, is battle fatigue.
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John Kerry returned a hero. The smears his political enemies are now flinging mark them -- not him -- as beneath contempt. The next time the nation gets into a war, why would any American with an interest in national service show up to fight?
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It's important to debate Canada's war &nbsp;mission in Afghanistan. It's a legitimate and necessary debate. It's a debate occurring in all the NATO countries now being asked to send more troops. Most of these countries, with the exception of Poland and Canada, have resisted further commitments. As in Canada, there is broad questioning within their populations about the core wisdom and merits of this mission. This is not, or as some are suggesting, a re-staging of the Second World War. The fate of the Western world is not hanging in the balance.
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A Marine fires on a wounded man in a Fallujah mosque, and the world asks: Was it a war crime? Rules of engagement. That&#39;s code for what US soldiers are allowed to do on the battlefield, and it&#39;s never simple.
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Officials are mulling a new, long-term strategy that shifts military focus from large-scale warfare to fighting terrorism, low-tech guerrilla wars and less conventional threats.
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The toll on US troops of war in Iraq and Afghanistan may be obscured by dramatic advances in battlefield medicine that allow more soldiers to survive combat injuries than ever