by Benjamin Plackett | Oct 4, 2012 | Monitor
The pentagon wants to use video games to keep tabs on soldiers’ mental health Photo:Remy Free/Flickr To do their job and to stay alive, troops need to be in shape. They need have the right equipment. And they also need to be psychologically sound. The problem is...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 1, 2012 | Monitor
Army Gen. William “Kip” Ward speaks at a Center for Strategic & International Studies forum on Africa, July 2010. Photo: Flickr/CSIS What does Army Maj. Gen. William “Kip” Ward do for a living? The Army doesn’t seem to know. It knows...
by Noah Shachtman | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, center, with Afghan surgeon general Ahmed Yaftali. Photo: U.S. Army One of the Army’s top generals went before Congress Wednesday to deny that he was a shill for the Obama White House and a careerist so concerned with his own...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
Libyans walk on the grounds of the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Photo: AP/Ibrahim Alaguri Updated 7:42 pm. It was not a simple mob that attacked the...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
The Marine Corps is sending a complement of about 50 Marines to Libya in response to a violent attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, including the U.S. ambassador to the country. A Marine “FAST team” — for Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team...