by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Let Hamid Karzai be a cautionary tale. The U.S. can’t buy foreign allies. It can only rent them. And even then, the cash undermines Washington’s broader goals.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 8, 2013 | Monitor
The experiences of eight platoons during the Afghanistan troop surge become an immersive experience with the Army’s first interactive iPad book.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor
One of the major metrics for the decade-long Afghanistan war is seriously flawed. Rather than fix the problem, the U.S.-NATO military command in Kabul has decided you simply shouldn’t see the data.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 26, 2013 | Monitor
Actually, the U.S. military is conceding, Taliban violence in Afghanistan didn’t decline last year. It was just a clerical error. Oops.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 21, 2013 | Monitor
What the cash-strapped Army is spending money on: operations centers around Pakistan to staunch the flow of drugs.