February and March were bad months for the Western presence in Afghanistan. First the accidental burning of the Quran and then a lone soldier’s massacre of Afghan civilians undercut U.S. efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds.

Who is representing the United States in today's tough fights in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? What are their backgrounds? What motivates them? How exactly are they conducting themselves? Pulitzer-winning New York Times writer Chris Hedges says members of the U.S. armed forces are mostly "poor kids from Mississippi or Alabama...

President Obama's politically motivated deadlines for troop drawdown have already undermined the effectiveness of the surge.

The humiliation of Obama's retreat is compounded by the dishonesty of its presentation. The president has failed to achieve any of the objectives that he established as his own policy in February 2009 — apart, of course, from withdrawing U.S. military forces.

Reasonable people can disagree about whether the United States should resume using enhanced interrogation techniques (as it appears it will if a Republican assumes the presidency in January 2013).  But we should at least debate this proposition based on facts.

Despite the horrors of combat and the prospect of continued deployments, rates of indiscipline and deep psychological trauma are low in the military, and reenlistment rates historically high. What explains this seeming paradox?

It’s easy to muster a cynical response to Tuesday’s announcement that the world’s largest health products company, J&J, is replacing their current CEO William Weldon (athletic white male and former sales rep who rose through the commercial organization) with Alex Gorsky (athletic ...

Obama should send the mother of a fallen soldier to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of all the American service men and women who are the true peacekeepers.