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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 and board costs.

Bribes — more commonly known as signing bonuses — are “one of the main reasons why the [...]

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. In fact, the last few weeks have seen an uptick in attacks by home-grown insurgents, but the [...]

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 days before he was dead, killed in combat along with seven others when his battalion was attacked near Sadr City. [...]