As the military occupation in Iraq and operations in Afghanistan continue, a pressing question is occasionally brought up in Congress or the media but never discussed in detail – where the manpower for these prolonged missions comes from, and the results of extended time spent in a combat zone.
The United States has now officially lost […]

A critical aspect of United States domination on the battlefield has been maintaining air superiority and usage of the advantages that free reign over the skies gives the military. This was starkly illustrated in the first Gulf War, where once the Iraqi Air Force had been rendered ineffectual, the armor was also practically obsolete– coalition […]

In political discourse regarding the Middle East, Iran has frequently been in the spotlight of US foreign policy, oftentimes in a negative light. The September 25 issue of the New York Times reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran stated that he considered the dispute over his country’s nuclear program “closed” and that Iran would […]