The one reason that led to the war in Iraq in the year 2003 was the possession of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and it is the same reason, that has got the new Iraqi government all riled up. The new Saddam Hussein free Iraq is looking forward for its own nuclear [...]

According to Marine officers Timothy Saint and Nicholas Smith, there are similarities between managing the war in Iraq and managing an office. They ‘learned a lot about leadership and management’ that they wish someone had told them while they were boot lieutenants during their service in Iraq. Both believe that most of what they learned [...]

It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to keep it on [...]

Since the massacre at the Fort Hood U.S army base where 13 people were shot to death and 30 more injured, the Muslim soldiers serving the U.S armed forces across the United States and overseas have been living in a constant fear of a fearsome backlash from fellow soldiers and comrades. On 5th November, 2009, [...]

The usual thinking about torture is that ‘pain will make the guilty confess.’ A whole new study coming out of Harvard University refutes that all the way around. These researchers are now saying that, contrary to popular belief, ‘the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty.’ The research appears in the Journal [...]

In its first comprehensive tally released since the war began, Iraq pegs a violence casualty tally of at least 85,694 in the four-year period. The Human Rights Ministry report also declares that 147,195 were wounded during the same period. We have seen pictures of the gory and tragic deaths of Iraqi civilians (men, women, elderly, [...]

The Vietnam War showed the world ‘the futility of Western powers using force in somebody else’s country.’ The US learned some hard lessons from the failure. Today, ‘Vietnam haunts Barack Obama as he decides what to do in Afghanistan’ which he calls the ‘war of necessity.’
The US counter-insurgency strategy, while ‘seeking to exorcise the ghost [...]

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have presided over more than a decade of almost continuous war. It started with air strikes on Iraq in 1998. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq proper, and ‘a much bigger Afghan commitment’ followed.
Much of the sentiment regarding the largely Western-waged war on terror has made Britain regard the war in [...]

A US federal jury sentenced to five consecutive life terms a former American soldier for raping and fatally shooting an Iraqi girl aged 14, as well as killing three of her family members. The carnage happened while Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas, was serving in Iraq in 2006.
‘Green shot and killed the teen’s [...]

Many people were killed and hundreds injured in various deadly bomb explosions which rocked Baghdad today. The coordinated mortar fire and car bomb attacks were mainly targeted at all official government buildings including the most deadly one near Foreign Ministry. Sunni extremists are suspected to be responsible for these attacks.
The attacks have happened just a [...]