WORLD: American Military
SOCIETY
Who’s Afraid of Marcia Langton?
Peter Robb
Marcia Langton has a longer and more various history than Pearson, and is a lot harder to place. She is 14 years older, a grandmother...
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WORLD
A Tale of Two Cities: Mahmoud Saikal and Kabul’s ‘New City’ Proposal
Christopher Kremmer
How like an architect to see the problems of one city as a reason for building another. It wasn’t his idea but Mahmoud Saikal – architect,...
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WORLD
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks
John Birmingham
Semantics aside, it remained a benighted sinkhole, although nearly 1300 years of fierce parochialism and independence shone through even...
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'War' by Sebastian Junger
John Birmingham
It might seem strange and contrary, but among the many surprising truths in Sebastian Junger’s brilliant evocation of 15 months, on and off...
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The Bigger Devil : Patrick Cockburn’s ‘Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq’
Tony Clifton
Soon after America's army had invaded Iraq and overthrown Saddam Hussein, an obscure Iraqi Muslim cleric was asked what he thought had just...
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Winter in Afghanistan: Travels through a hibernating war
Debbie Whitmont
It's a winter morning and I'm standing on the tarmac of Kabul Airport, staring at the mountains that loom up from the end of the...
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WORLD
Comment: Situation Ethics
Don Watson
When Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed on 7 June, US military officials first said that he was dead when they found him, which is no less...
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Little America: How John Howard has Changed Australia
Robert Manne
The meaning of John Howard’s ten years as Prime Minister of Australia – how Australia has been changed, how the era will eventually be seen...
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Murdoch's War: How a lovestruck teenager, an angry man and an ambitious baron made sure bad news was no news on the path to Iraq
Robert Manne
Four months later on January 17, 2003, the Hobart Mercury was singing the standard Murdoch tune:History is littered with the victims of...
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Explaining the Unexplained: Cameron Forbes's 'Hellfire'
Phillip Knightley
There comes a moment after a war when the politicians who made it and the generals who fought it and the soldiers who survived it have died...
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