Military

List of Military articles

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  The new pope as a battlefield medic

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Sh*t NATO leaders say

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Fivecoat’s response in Parameters to me: Look more at causation than correlation

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Three questions with William Arkin, author of the new book ‘American Coup’

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Guest war dog of the week: This soldier and his wife sure loved their dogs

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Keep Cutting Nukes

  Four reasons why presidents have pushed for nuclear cuts for decades -- and why there's no reason to stop now.

  Response

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  Tom Z. Collina, Daryl G. Kimball

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  Why It Makes Sense to Engage with Burma’s Military

  Transitions

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  Min Zin

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  The battle for Karachi

  The South Asia Channel

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  Kathryn Alexeeff

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  The Syrian Disconnect

  It's not just that Americans don't want to go to war against Assad -- it's that they know America's not good at going to war anymore.

  Argument

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  John Norris

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  The U.S. military, mythology, and Abu Ghraib: An intelligence officer’s view

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  Shots Fired

  The battles over a drawdown at the Pentagon may have begun, but senior leadership is still prioritizing politics over hard budget realities.

  Gordon Adams

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  Gordon Adams

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  An Enlisted Airman Deciphered al Qaeda’s ‘Conference Call’ of Doom

  The Complex

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  John Reed

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  Moral courage: Three Army lt. cols. call out their service for dangerous hypocrisies

  Best Defense

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  My reply to Col. Fivecoat in Parameters

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  Thomas E. Ricks

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  The FBI file on the nature of leadership, the Navy file on busting former skippers

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  Thomas E. Ricks