war
- Drone pilots have a front-row seat on war, from half a world away
- In a low, tan building in Nevada, Air Force personnel sit in padded chairs and control aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan. They are 7,500 miles away, yet feel more affected by war than ever.
- 2010-02-21 to drone, military, psychology, technology, war by lipi
- Reluctant warriors - Fighting insurgencies
- For a wider perspective on the lessons drawn over the past seven years of the “war on terror”, the reader can do no better than turn to Mr Kilcullen’s excellent book.
- 2009-06-01 to bestof, books, strategy, terror, war by soobrosa
- Clive Crook: A criminally stupid war on drugs in the US
- Somebody in the White House should take a look. This national calamity is no laughing matter.
- 2009-04-17 to bestof, business, crime, drugs, economy, war by soobrosa
- David Rose: Tortured Reasoning
- George W. Bush defended harsh interrogations by pointing to intelligence breakthroughs, but a surprising number of counterterrorist officials say that, apart from being wrong, torture just doesn’t work.
- 2009-04-14 to al qaida, bestof, bush, cia, intelligence, interrogation, iraq, torture, war by soobrosa
- Rob Edwards: How the US forgot how to make Trident missiles
- Inquiry cites loss of files and key staff as reason for $69m repair delay
- 2009-03-15 to bestof, business, data, funnies, knowledge, military, war by soobrosa
- Matthew Alexander: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
- We're told that our only options are to persist in carrying out torture or to face another terrorist attack. But there truly is a better way to carry out interrogations -- and a way to get out of this false choice between torture and terror.
- 2008-12-26 to army, bestof, interrogation, iraq, torture, us, war by soobrosa
- Machiavelli The Florentine
- The man who taught rulers how to rule.
- 2008-09-17 to bestof, history, politics, profile, story, war by bagoly
- Combat rock
- The extraordinary story of a unique label devoted to releasing music by Iraq war veterans
- 2008-09-15 to bestof, music, story, war by bagoly
- In nuclear net's undoing, a web of shadowy deals
- the Tinners played an important role in a clandestine American operation to funnel sabotaged nuclear equipment to Libya and Iran, a major but little-known element of the efforts to slow their nuclear progress.
- 2008-08-25 to bestof, business, nuclear, politics, swiss, switzerland, us, war by bagoly
- Day of the Crocodile
- Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler, Robert Mugabe, made a brutal sham of recent elections, after banning Western journalists. The author, a native, reports from the inside on Mugabe’s campaign of terror—and the extraordinary courage of those who’ve confronted “The
- 2008-08-08 to bestof, politics, war by bagoly
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