In 2003, a platoon of American soldiers opened fire on a family in a Baghdad intersection. A decade later, one of the shooters tracks down the survivors.

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

The legacy of a secret Cold War program that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers.

Looking for answers following a mysterious string of slayings and suicides at the base.

On the potential existence of personalized bioweapons, which could attack a single individual without leaving a trace, and how they might be stopped.

The U.S. military’s leadership problem.

How Barack Obama decided to green-light the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

The debate over autonomous lethal drones.

Did a handsome young Green Beret doctor kill his pregnant wife and two daughters? Or, as he claims, did a group of candle-carrying hippies carry out a vicious home invasion while chanting “Acid is groovy, kill the pigs”? A mystery that spanned three decades.

The emotional toll on drone pilots.

Erwynn Umali, Will Behrens, and the first gay wedding on a military base.

Drone strikes and their consequences.

A CIA veteran remembers his Soviet nemesis, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, who was the chairman of the KGB for a single day during the 1991 coup against Gorbachev, and committed suicide in Moscow in March.

Revealing the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.

The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.

Uncovered letters reveal ties between the literary magazine and the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom.

On the escape of hundreds of insurgents from Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison through a tunnel dug from the outside, and an unlikely suspect: the jail’s former warden.

Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s secret surveillance network.

On the ground with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

A year with Major Steve Beck as he takes on the most difficult duty of his career: casualty notification.

The expansion of private-security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known. But armed security personnel account for only about sixteen per cent of the over-all contracting force. The vast majority—more than sixty per cent of the total in Iraq—aren’t hired guns but hired hands. These workers, primarily from South Asia and Africa, often live in barbed-wire compounds on U.S. bases, eat at meagre chow halls, and host dance parties featuring Nepalese romance ballads and Ugandan church songs. A large number are employed by fly-by-night subcontractors who are financed by the American taxpayer but who often operate outside the law.

The search for a missing soldier.

A decorated Iraq war veteran with PTSD kills his brother and himself after a high-speed chase near the Grand Canyon.