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 19, 2013 | Monitor
United Nations stats show civilian casualties in Afghanistan dropping for the first time since 2007. And it’s the Taliban, not the U.S., that’s responsible for the vast majority of them.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 12, 2013 | Monitor
As you’ll hear in the State of the Union tonight, President Obama wants to halve the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan and cut the U.S. nuclear stockpile. The first thing he can do. The second thing, well…
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 5, 2013 | Monitor
Once, a nation could only attack another if it had evidence an enemy was readying an “imminent” attack. To justify drone strikes on American citizens, President Obama redefined imminence out of existence.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 4, 2013 | Monitor
British troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.