26 Books

Just this week, TIME’s Aryn Baker referred to the US’s current entanglement in Afghanistan as “the unwinnable war” (cover article, under the unnecessarily leading headline Why the US will never save Afghanistan). After finishing Stephen Tanner’s very readable military history of the same, I have to agree with her summary: two and a half thousand [...]

Black Hearts – full title: Black Hearts: One platoon’s descent into madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death – is the harrowing story of one company’s experience of war in Iraq. This company – Bravo Company of the Black Heart Brigade – is notable because four of its soldiers committed one of the highest-profile war crimes [...]