category: Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan
Foreign Policy | September 8, 2009
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession.
Slate | July 18, 2008
What “Generation Kill” Gets Right About Iraq
The New York Times Magazine | May 1, 2005
The counterinsurgency is increasingly being waged by former elite troops of Saddam Hussein’s army, with guidance from a U.S. adviser who in the 80’s commanded the Special Forces in El Salvador. It’s not a pretty campaign.
Popular Science | October 2004
An ode to the Thuraya 7101 Satphone.
Gizmodo | May 3, 2004
A War Correspondent’s Digital Gear
The New York Times Magazine | January 11, 2004
Major John Nagl was a leading military scholar on how to fight a resistance. But could he make his ideas work on the ground in Iraq?
War: USA, Afghanistan, Iraq | January 2004
The New York Times Magazine | December 15, 2002
Ideas of 2002
The New York Times Magazine | December 14, 2003
The New York Times Magazine | December 14, 2003
New tools for an occupation.
Outside | July 2003
This spring, a quarter of a million Americans took a trip. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn’t come back.
The New York Times Magazine | June 8, 2003
Dathar Khashab had what it took to maneuver his way up through the ranks in Saddam Hussein’s oil bureaucracy. When his new managers showed up wearing U.S.-issue fatigues, he didn’t miss a step.
Slate | June 2, 2003
How do I know Baghdad’s famous blogger exists? He worked for me.
The New York Times | May 11, 2003
The New York Times Magazine | May 11, 2003
Moqtadah al-Sadr wants an Iraq run by God’s laws. But first he has to outsmart his rivals, outmaneuver the Americans and get Iraq’s millions of Shiites behind him.
The New Republic | May 3, 2003
Dispatch from Baghdad
The New York Times Magazine | April 20, 2003
To get to Baghdad, the marines of the Third Battalion fought the old-fashioned way—by shooting as many of the enemy as they could. Their victims weren’t all soldiers.
The New York Times Magazine | April 13, 2003
The New York Times | April 6, 2003
Food, Too, Can Be a Weapon of the War In Iraq.
The New Republic | March 31, 2003
Dispatch from Kuwait
The New York Times | March 8, 2003
Security and retribution in a murky world.
The New York Times Magazine | February 2, 2003
An Arab journalist’s close encounter with terrorists.
The New York Times Magazine | November 10, 2002
The Special Forces are being engineered not only for the traumas of battle but also for its aftermath.
The New Republic | November 2002
How America’s friends really fight terrorism.
The New York Times | July 5, 2002
The New York Times Magazine | January 6, 2002
It’s kissing the ring, cash stuffed in envelopes and bloody lawlessness again in Kandahar. The warlord has returned.
Dissent | January 2002
The illusions and delusions behind 200,000 deaths in Bosnia.
The New Republic Online | December 15, 2001
How to change a tire in Kandahar.
Slate | November 20, 2001
The strange last days of the mullahs in black turbans.
The New York Times Magazine | November 18, 2001
Every refugee camp has its own social hierarchy. In Shamshatoo, on the Pakistani border, it all begins with a man named Nusrat.
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