The Risky Business of Post-War Contracting

The Risky Business of Post-War Contracting

The Iraq War is officially over. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops slipped quietly out of the country last year with none of the bodies-clinging-to-helicopter-struts drama that characterized America’s exit from Saigon in 1975. The only “uniforms”...
A Zero on the Home Front’s Richter Scale

A Zero on the Home Front’s Richter Scale

Among the strange things that happened last year — and there were many — perhaps the strangest was the end of the Iraq War. Did you notice it? I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t. It hardly even registered on the home front’s Richter...
Veterans, the Human Rubble of Our Wars

Veterans, the Human Rubble of Our Wars

Back those troops Where e’er they roam; But let them suffer When they’re home. With great fanfare, President Barack Obama recently presented a Congressional Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, a living hero. Presidents don’t often get to do that....