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- 1From:The Quill (Vol. 96, Issue 8)"When your sources are wrong, then you are wrong." Judith Miller used that phrase to defend her off-the-mark reporting with The New York Times on weapons of mass destruction. It wasn't her fault, said Miller, who...
- 2From:Air Power History (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn a similar way, the battle for Mazar was a transforming battle. Coalition forces took existing military capabilities--from the most advanced (such as laser-guided weapons) to the antique (40 year-old-B-52s updated...
- 3From:Phi Kappa Phi Forum (Vol. 82, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI believe two moral judgements can be made about the war in Afghanistan: The September 11 attack constitutes a crime against humanity and cannot be justified, and the bombing of Afghanistan is also a crime, which cannot...
- 4From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 33, Issue 4)IN THE MIDST OF NEGOTIATING THE SOVIET withdrawal from Afghanistan in the mid-1980s, a Western diplomat confided to United Nations mediator Diego Cordovez, "The Russians would like to get out of Afghanistan, but they...
- 5From:War, Literature & The Arts (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA chocolate brown horse with wide eyes and nostrils fluttered its tail in flaccid resistance as a child beat its brains in with a hammer. Next door, a man quarreled over the price of shoes. Behind him, the first M-ATV in...
- 6From:War, Literature & The Arts (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn March 2004, as a reporter for Knight Ridder newspapers, I returned to Afghanistan for the fourth time to cover the war. My Afghan colleague, translator Khalid Saraway, picked me up at Kabul International Airport. A...
- 7From:War, Literature & The Arts (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedApril, 2012 Third in a stack of six men lined up on the shoot house entry door. Two PJs in front of me, three behind, M4s ready. I awaited the squeeze from the man behind; a squeeze Tll pass to the shoulder in front. A...
- 8From:American DiplomacyOctober 2017 There seems to be a new truth that whoever starts a column about Afghanistan, adds the descriptive phrase, "Our longest war." Or words to that effect. One is not exactly sure why the writers seek to...
- 9From:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 40, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHow you saw the war in Afghanistan depended in part on which window you were looking through. Over the next eleven pages CJR examines some of the differences in perspective on that conflict and other events in the...
- 10From:Naval War College Review (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOne of the most remarkable aspects of American joint-force combat capability today is the close harmony that has steadily evolved since the 1991 Persian Gulf War in the integrated conduct of aerial strike operations by...
- 11From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 20, Issue 1)Our Brother (2011) documents the return of the soldier, Robert Iannarelli, after serving for one year in Afghanistan. Photographed in the home that he shared with his mother and sister, and the abandoned and overgrown...
- 12From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 23, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThey told us to turn the headlights off after the checkpoint in Charikar. It's probably not true, but it certainly seemed that night that there was no darker place on earth than the road from Charikar to the front lines...
- 13From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 324, Issue 7333) Peer-ReviewedThe US war in Afghanistan is analyzed according to the seven principles of a just war. These principles state that the cause must be just, the war must comply with international and humanitarian law, it should have a...
- 14From:Air & Space Power Journal (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAfter reAding Col William darley's article "Strategic imperative: the necessity for Values operations as opposed to information operations in iraq and Afghanistan" (Spring 2007), I believe that the author misconstrued...
- 15From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 230)Paul Miller's essay is a plea for Americans to persevere in a military undertaking in Afghanistan that began in 2001. I might be moved by an argument that appealed to our national honor. Many people in that country have...
- 16From:Policy Review (Issue 167) Peer-ReviewedIN THE DAYS before he was forced into retirement by scandal, General Stanley McChrystal was fond of referring to the Afghan theater he commanded as a "war of perceptions." In February he spoke to the Washington Post:...
- 17From:U.S. Army Medical Department JournalPeer-ReviewedDisease and nonbattle injury (DNBI) are the leading causes of morbidity during wars and military operations. However, adequate medical data were never before available to service public health centers to conduct DNBI...
- 18From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 2)The following stories are made possible thanks to the generosity and hard work of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. WHY THEY VOLUNTEERED JOHN HINTZ [On September 11, 2001] I was standing in...
- 19From:Parameters (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article was first published in the Summer 2002 issue of Parameters. --Rudyard Kipling, "The Screw Guns" The "screw guns" to which Kipling refers were rifled artillery pieces with longer range and more...
- 20From:Hoover Digest (Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn both wars and nation building, America has sacrificed the good to pursue the perfect. We need to temper our ambitions. The United States has the most potent military in terms of firepower and operational capacity in...