I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation..

The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essent….

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite havin….

I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive..

The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the oth….

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone..

As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I think we do, as we have an oblig….

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure..

One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train the Afghans bein….

The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing i….

A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying ….

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic ….

The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head….

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained..

Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's this bipa….

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushe….

I did an embed in Afghanistan on the Pakistan border in 2008. One of the things you realize when you're talking to low-ranking enlisted men is that n….

Johnny Apple, a New York Times correspondent, wrote a front-page story saying Afghanistan could be a quagmire and he was mocked and derided. What is ….

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be ….

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory..

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence..