A few members of the Antiwar.com staff attended the West 2005 Convention in San Diego, "the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more. " Here's...
In Jerry Z. Muller's The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, one finds a detailed description of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan in the context of the anti-commerce/anti-market era in which it was written. Hobbes questioned his era's Christian virtues of...
Via James Wolcott, we have an article from The Economist detailing the American military's tactics in the insurgent hotbed Al Anbar Province: In Ramadi, the capital of central Anbar province, where 17 suicide-bombs struck American forces during the month-long Muslim...
The Department of Defense released the names of the 13 troops killed in the attack on a mess tent in Mosul. They are Capt. William W. Jacobsen Jr., 31, of Charlotte, N.C. Jacobsen was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry...
Nearly a year ago, Antiwar.com completed a redesign and database integration of our original content. This week we finished the first of many steps toward databasing our news archive, which includes a new dynamically updated latest news page. With this feature, we can...
A unknown Russian firm called Baikal Finans Group won the auction for a subsidiary of the giant oil firm Yukos. The sale has become more suspicious as new information about the company surfaces The Baikal Finans Group, which listed its address as the same as that of a...
The Department of Defense released the names of three more US troops killed in Iraq, bringing the November US death total in Iraq to 137, the highest since the war began. In April of this year, 135 US troops were killed. Each of the three soldiers killed died from...
Simple: Bush thought some PowerPoint presentations were cool. In the current issue of The Atlantic, James Fallows details a war game put on by the magazine. It involved a simulated conflict with Iran. The whole process was replicated: briefings, role-playing and...
Bin Laden responds: Bin Laden said he wanted to explain why he ordered the suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon so Americans would know how to avoid "another disaster." "To the U.S. people, my talk is to you about the best way to...
"Vietnam was not easy, but it was certainly far less complex and more straightforward."That is a quote from Bruce Hoffman, a RAND counterinsurgency expert who served as an adviser to the U.S.-led occupation administration, comparing the "complex insurgency" in Iraq...
