Rape is a tactic of terror used in many of today’s wars. Let’s try to understand how and why it’s employed as a weapon, and find ways to stop it. A meditation on Congo.

In 1969, a compassionate man helps a grieving father. Ghosts, you see, are never really dead. And sometimes we’re better off when they haunt us.

The woman sings of savagery and blood and memory and loss. Will any Americans listen?

An oplan for Libya drawn up by Hillary Clinton and executed by French generals… Why, what could possibly go wrong?

AP has it right. Combat is not over in Iraq. The war is not won, nor is combat over.
And, by the way, the U.S. military doe s not have NON-combat troops. Even the combat support troops are fighting men and women.

As President Obama weighs what to do in Afghanistan, I would advise him to to keep two maxims firmly in mind, to wit: 1. Look before you leap. 2. He who hesitates is lost.

Was the AP’s decision to distribute a graphic photograph of a dying Marine, “morally indefensible” as my colleague Tom Ricks writes, or a tough judgment call? After further review, I’m weighing in again.