Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. He was held in Guantanamo for years without charges. He was tortured. And earlier this month, after nearly 13 years behind bars, he was released on bail.

From equipment that doesn’t fit to an ill-equipped VA medical system.

“The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account.”

A reporter returns to My Lai.

Searching for sanctuary with American war deserters.

Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.

A leading Guantanamo interrogator was once a Chicago police detective accused of police brutality.

Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”

What one sergeant says he saw before the alleged suicides of three detainees.

The United States fights wars it can’t win using soldiers it doesn’t know.

Reporting on the “American Way of Life,” two years after the end of World War II.

When American and Iraqi soldiers were exposed to leftover chemical munitions from Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran, the Pentagon kept silent.

Jamie Smith said he was a co-founder of Blackwater and a former CIA officer. He appeared on cable news as a counterterrorism expert and he received millions in goverment contracts to train personnel. The money was real. The resume wasn’t.

ISIS vs. the Kurds.

On the Cold War and the Space Race.

In the U.S. military, more than half of rape victims are men.

A personal history of Soldier of Fortune magazine and the mercenary-wannabes who read and wrote it.

The future (and past) of non-lethal weaponry deployed against civilian populations.

The full text of a 20,000-word ebook on the interpreters who worked alongside American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their fates once they were no longer of service.

Untangling the aftermath of a United States drone strike in Yemen.

In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”

A grieving father looks for answers.

How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.

How an anti-government militia grew on a U.S. Army base.

On America’s combat canines and their handlers.