How the U.S. Army went evangelical and turned a war into a crusade.

The boyish CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, also happened to be a C.I.A. agent.

The bloody, often surreal, fight for Kosovo’s independence was led by a man moonlighting as a roofer in Switzerland.

In “Operation Mincemeat” a vagrant’s corpse, raided from a London morgue, washed up on a beach in Spain, setting in motion an elaborate piece of espionage that fooled Nazi intelligence. Or did it?

Selections from the leaked documents about the war in Afghanistan portray a military effort that is ineffective and frequently absurd. (Part of the NYT War Logs series.)

The pain and beauty of U.S. military funerals. The author follows fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.

The shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later culture of the 101st Airborne Division, an execution of captured Iraqi prisoners, and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.

An interview with an ex-CIA agent who is a world expert on the history of car bombing.

A war correspondent decides to rent a house in Baghdad to save money. Complications ensue.

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

In post-Shock and Awe Baghdad, the relationship between a war reporter and his Iraqi guide falls apart.

How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan.