by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 23, 2013 | Monitor
Armed U.S. drones will remain in Afghanistan’s skies even after the U.S.’s longest war formally ends in 2014, the military confirmed today.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 28, 2013 | Monitor
In 2004, Osama bin Laden explained how his terrorists were going to win its struggle against a vastly more powerful adversary: al-Qaida sought to “blee[d] America to the point of bankruptcy.” Bin Laden is dead and his organization is a …
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 12, 2013 | Monitor
U.S. troops in Afghanistan have begun operating one of the most bleeding-edge lethal drones available: the six-pound Switchblade, a mashup of missile and drone.
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.