The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower.

“It is a John Wick training montage, but with teachers wearing T-shirts with elementary-school mascots or “This is what an AWESOME SCIENCE TEACHER looks like” emblazoned across the front.”

Women’s recruitment into elite commandos, formed in response to post-9/11 terrorism, was not driven by a desire for diversity in the workplace, but by the need to conduct raids and arrest militants without alienating local communities.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.

Published across three consecutive issues and later adapted into the book (and mini-series) Generation Kill, the story of bullets, bombs and a Marine platoon at war in Iraq.

Victims of Mexico’s drug violence often end up in unmarked graves. This man set out to find them.

Saudi Arabia thought a bombing campaign would quickly crush its enemies in Yemen. But three years later, the Houthis refuse to give up, even as 14 million people face starvation.

How an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.

What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers.

The Bashar al-Assad regime’s indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network that listens for warplanes and warns people when and where the bombs will fall.

For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution.

Rojava becomes the Spanish Civil War of modern times for a ragtag group of leftists revolutionaries.

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

One expert warns that policies advanced by the think tank could lead to military conflict with China.

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

To make sense of the Special Counsel, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.

A former US Army officer is now a general for a country accused of war crimes.

“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”

Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.

And I fear what it has become.