The premise of aiming to affect, influence and control will and perception must be the key to a strategy of shock and awe.

Ann Shepphird writes from what she knows, weaving what she wonders, imagines, maybe secretly wishes, into fiction. The former travel journalist and college-level communications instructor might have ...

As Syria recovers from 13 years of civil war and five decades under the Assad regime, its citizens face the daunting task of ...

"Atropia," a satire of the Iraq War and military contractors' efforts to prepare soldiers to fight overseas, was one of the big winners at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival's awards ceremony.

To some State Department officials and Middle East analysts who tracked the issue, it showcased the law of unintended consequences.

Republic of Dreams is a newly published book that follows ordinary Kurdish families through their struggles from 1988 to 2022 ...

And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

Donald Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, faced stiff criticism from Democrats and some Republicans—requiring a tie-breaking ...

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from ...

American Jewish Studies: “A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews,” by Shaul Kelner. Biography: “Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall,” by Christophe Lebold.