Note from Brant:  Rex Brynen has kindly allowed us to repost his  excellent summary of 'war crimes'  that he originally had up over ...

I guess it's only surprising that this doesn't happen more often . An Afghan police commander and 13 junior officers have joined t...

While there was good news over the past year, there's a lot of progress yet to be made . More than 11,000 child soldiers were freed fr...

With political violence on the rise in Italy, will the Army get involved ? Italy is considering using the army to protect the defense cong...

The tribunal in Guantanamo Bay Bis set to resume . Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks are to b...

Looks like he might just be the lord of a jail cell . Russian man who became known as the "Merchant of Death" for his exploits i...

Are we using "terrorism" and "terrorist" as by-words for anything we don't like? Yes, the Turkish military hierarch...

Following the shooting of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier, there is no end of analyses. This one, from The New Yorker, is one of the be...

Really... You're going to try to prop up a government and a people who run dogfighting rings, call the losers "Americans", and...

Wow. While reading an article about the coming personnel drawdown in the US Army , there's this little nugget at the end of the article...

The DoD is charging detainee Majid Shoukat Khan with a whole bunch of bad things , including kicking puppies, sunspots, and not wiping his a...

In an effort to reduce gun violence, the Jamaican government is melting down the seized weapons . Jamaica has melted down about 2,000 ille...

And can spend it in ridiculous ways . Supporters of the Army private accused of providing a trove of U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks ...

Synthetic marijuana usage is growing in US forces . U.S. troops are increasingly using an easy-to-get herbal mix called "Spice,"...

(and am I using too many capital letters in the headline?) So the Shababians in Somalia are pretty fond of twitter and that's casuing ...

Bradley Manning is starting his pre-trail hearings . The BBC reports... A military officer overseeing the hearing of a US Army analyst ac...

Foreign Affairs Magazine has a solid article on why Obama can't close Guantanamo . The last two prisoners to leave the U.S. detention ...

I'm going to admit that at first blush, the article about the ICRC investigating possible war crimes in video games gave me a facepalm....

The low-intensity conflict in the AfPak revolves around religious terrorism. The low-intensity conflict in Mexico revolves around apolitica...

The Senate's bill would strip away fundamental Constitutional rights , and put the military squarely in the law enforcement arena. Sec...