Military’s Mideast Chief Sounds Ready to Aid Syria’s Rebels
Marine Gen. James Mattis, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, didn’t come out and endorse U.S. intervention in Syria. But he did everything short of it, playing up the opportunity for the...
View ArticlePentagon Issues Drone War Talking Points
It's official: the U.S. drone war over Pakistan, Yemen and beyond really does exist. John Brennan, President Obama's principal counterterrorism adviser, disclosed the government's worst kept secret in...
View ArticleU.S. Could Dump Shadow War Ally Over Gay Persecution
In the past four years, the U.S. has forged a close, and largely unreported, alliance with the Ugandan military. But Uganda's escalating crackdown on its gays, lesbians and transgenders has the U.S....
View ArticleHidden History: America’s Secret Drone War in Africa
More secret bases. More frequent and deadly robotic attacks. Some six years after a Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flew the type's first mission over lawless Somalia, the shadowy American-led drone...
View Article‘Now What?’: As France Leaves Mali, the West’s New War Strategy Shows Peril
The U.S.-backed campaign in Mali illustrates everything that's right, and wrong, with America's new approach to war.
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