If you had any doubts that U.S. strategy for the Middle East and the war on terror hadn’t found a coherent theme, yesterday’s "fall of Mogadishu" – an Islamic group, or several …

For once, a tactically insignificant action in Iraq – an airstrike near the town of Hibhib, about 50 miles from Baghdad -will give the United States and its Iraqi allies a strategically …

Vehicle wear and tear in Iraq jeopardizes U.S. Army readiness

In wartime, seemingly small things can have large meanings. So it was with an Army helicopter recently returned to the U.S. from …

A thrilling account of the Afghanistan air war

Why has the U.S. Air Force gotten so bad at studying its own history? In the wake of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the …

"Somalia is the failed state." That was the assessment of Marine Maj. Gen. Timothy Ghormley, the commander of U.S. forces in the Horn of Africa, last December. The apparent triumph yesterday of …

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. military’s airstrike against five terrorist training camps in Libya, a retaliation for the bombing of a Berlin discotheque in which three U.S. servicemen …

Reporting back in the Rose Garden after his zip-trip to Baghdad, after "looking" Iraqi leader Nouri al Maliki "in the eye," President Bush yesterday said that many Iraqi feared "America will lose …

A “senior lecturer” at the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England, for getting his Franks crossed. In a piece titled “General Botched Both Gulf Wars” in the National Post …

U.S. strategists have long been torn about which of the factions in Iraq represents our most natural ally. We have given protection to the Kurds since the end of Operation Desert Storm, …

Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Gen. George Casey, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, has prepared a plan to reduce U.S. combat forces in Iraq from the current …