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Who volunteers for the volunteer Army?

By Steve Perry | 03.18.08 | 12:06 pm

In a New York Review of Books essay, Michael Massing  writes that the population segment most exciting to the Army is working-class youth who want to go to college but can’t afford the rapidly rising tuition…

Iraq War: Are we winning yet?

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.12.08 | 12:12 pm

March marks the five-year anniversary of the Iraq War, aka “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” As winter recedes and roads open up again in Iraq, we learn that violence is again increasing, as it has every year around this time.…

‘Baghdad Cindy’: ‘Get out in the streets’ to oppose war in Iraq

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.31.07 | 10:23 am

He spent six weeks at boot camp and four weeks training to be a Humvee mechanic, but when 24-year-old Army specialist Casey Sheehan was sent to Iraq in March 2004, it was a matter of…