For us, the death of Osama Bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers. And we say, as we have [...]

For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers. And we say, as we have [...]

For us, the death of Osama Bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers. And we say, as we have [...]

NEW YORK — It takes no degree in psychology to understand why Americans flocked to the obvious gathering places — Ground Zero, the White House — celebrating news of Osama’s demise. A decade ago we watched people we knew or might have known hurtle to their deaths from a landmark building. Someone had to pay. [...]

It has been nearly five years since I left the Army and still my time in the service is fresh in my mind. I think about my deployments every single day without fail. I have friends and family, responsibilities and passions that keep me moving, but the time I spent in the Army and in [...]

The first time I taught a one-hour class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a 20-year-old student made it very clear that while he might be studying ethics, law and morality in school, it was practicalities that really concerned him. “If we are kicking in doors in Iraq,” the third year student — [...]

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Army on Monday apologized for any distress caused by recently published photos of American soldiers posing with dead Afghans, calling their content “disturbing” and “in striking contrast” to the Army’s standards and values. The Army issued a statement in response to graphic images that Rolling Stone magazine posted on [...]

The world’s opinion-makers, in both government and media, seem to have settled on the idea that imposing a “no-fly zone” over Libya would be a good idea for all concerned. Not everyone has jumped on this bandwagon yet, but it seems to be the most popular option under discussion by those advocating “doing something” about [...]

The world’s opinion-makers, in both government and media, seem to have settled on the idea that imposing a “no-fly zone” over Libya would be a good idea for all concerned. Not everyone has jumped on this bandwagon yet, but it seems to be the most popular option under discussion by those advocating “doing something” about [...]

Review of Known and Unknown: A Memoir. By Donald Rumsfeld. Sentinel. 815 pp. $36. Donald Rumsfeld begins his smart, serious, slashing, and self-serving memoir with an epigraph, according it pride of place with a page of its own: “What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of the will.” -Former [...]