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RoboCop in Iraq

In the next five years, according to DefenseLink, the Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion on robots, breaking the monopoly of human soldiers in an army

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The Fog of War Crimes

Who's to blame when 'just following orders' means murder?

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The Military’s Stealth Test

School districts are beginning to keep the results of a dodgy student aptitude test out of the hands of military recruiters

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Anthropologists on the Front Lines

The Pentagon's new program to embed anthropologists with combat brigades raises many concerns

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Kids LOL @ Navy Recruiters

Millennials, explained Arthur Mitchell, director of strategic planning for the Navy's Accelerate Your Life campaign, are "narcissistic praise junkies" and "a somewhat alien life force"

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Funding Iraqs Citizen Soldiers

Is the Pentagon's neighborhood watch strategy protecting Iraqis or stoking the civil war?

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A Resolution Too Far?

U.S.-Turkish relations, already strained by the war in Iraq, are being tested further by the controversial congressional resolution recognizing the 1915 genocide of Armenians.

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Harassment Unchecked at Army Hotel

Sexual abuse and rape in military culture--and a lack of action by military authorities--are long-standing problems, brought to light with the Tailhook scandal in 1991

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Blackwater Nation

Contracting soldiers of fortune is only one example of our recent philosophy of government

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Make-a-Sheikh

How the Pentagon transformed a contractor into a symbol of the surge's 'success'

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Merc is the New Crack

America's deadly dependence on private security contractors in Iraq

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Funding Indonesia’s Abusive Military

Despite numerous human rights abuses, the United States continues to pump money into the Indonesian military under the guise of the war on terror

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AFRICOM: Round One in a New Cold War?

Two dozen military bases in Africa will help the United States compete for influence with China in the otherwise forgotten continent

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Chain Stores, Picket Fences and Tanks

American-style sprawl is adversely affecting the outposts of our global empire

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Extending Tours, Stressing Troops

Despite a growing body of medical research, the Pentagon is extending tours of duty to their longest levels since World War II, precipitating the first time in history that active-duty soldiers will spend more time in combat than at home

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General Failure

An enduring crisis in civil-military relations threatens America's future

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Illegal Immigrants: Uncle Sam Wants You

Latino teenagers, including illegal immigrants are being recruited into the military with false promises.

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Death from Above

For the Iraqi people, the surge in U.S. troops has meant more bombs dropping from the sky and a surge in deaths

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Militarizing Mexico’s Drug War

More than 1,000 police officers, soldiers and members of enemy cartels have been killed this year as President Calderon has turned up the heat

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Democrats Shy Away From Emergency Contraception

Did the Democrats leave military servicewomen without EC for political reasons?

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The Checkpoint Women of Israel

Machsom Watch advocates for fair treatement of Palestinians, drawing both resentment and respect from their countrymen

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The Legacy of Tailhook

Supporting our troops at any cost overshadows holding them accountable for sexual assault within military

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These Guns for Hire

Blackwater unites conservative Catholics, evangelicals and neoconservatives to fight a theoconservative holy war

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America’s Child Soldier Problem

Congratulations: You have lived long enough to cringe at the bad decisions you were seduced, dared, bullied, inspired… more

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GI Bill Fails Vets

Soldiers returning from Iraq aren't receiving their education stipends until it's too late

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Globalism with Combat Boots

The United States launched a deadly air attack against Somalia last February, using the war on terror as… more

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Uncle Sam Wants Sustainability

In January, Conscious Choice, a Chicago urban lifestyle magazine released "The Chicago Green Report Card." Examining Mayor Richard… more

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Colombia’s Third Way

With the FARC having devolved into little more than bandits, a new left-wing party has emerged

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Counterinsurgency 101

General Petraeus says he thinks the war in Iraq is winnable. His recent manual suggests otherwise.

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Vermont Legislature: Bring Them Home Now

The state with the highest per capita deaths demands an end to the war in Iraq

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Getting Vets Their Benefits Back

Rick Scavetta lives with his wife and young daughter in a small town near New Haven, Conn. He… more

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The End of the School of the Americas?

The annual protests against the School of the Americas--the U.S. Army's training institute for Latin American military leaders--are… more

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Love the Warrior, Hate the War

Why progressives have more in common with the military than they think

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Abandon Hope, All Who Enter Here

A falsely accused "enemy combatant" describes his imprisonment in Guantanamo.

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Halliburton Hearts Congress

Do partisanship and cronyism trump congressional oversight and corporate accountability?

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Just Say No to Uncle Sam

To keep the war in Iraq going, the military needs soldiers, lots and lots of them. So they've… more

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General Condemnation

Retired Lieutenant General William Odom was the director of the National Security Agency between 1985 and 1988. Currently… more

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Walking to Guantnamo

Peace marchers aim to keep the abuse of 'enemy combatants' visible

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Postcards From the Front

Recent Iraq soldier memoirs display a 'whatever, dude' detachment

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Backdoor Draft, Back Again

Despite signaling that it would no longer tap the Individual Ready Reserve, the Army calls up more troops just in time for the holidays.

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