The premise of aiming to affect, influence and control will and perception must be the key to a strategy of shock and awe.

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most ...

Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...

Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington ...

Republic of Dreams is a newly published book that follows ordinary Kurdish families through their struggles from 1988 to 2022 ...

Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been named as Syria’s president for a transitional period.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recalled a solid relationship with the U.S. built on history and necessity as he announced retaliatory tariffs in response to a trade war that surveys have found ...

President Donald Trump has launched his second bid to oust all transgender troops from the military, and once again it will ...

World War II is “fertile storytelling ground” for the new book “Hold Strong,” writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about the work ...