Military

Women at war: How women ended up on the front line in Afghanistan

In 2010 the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created a pilot program to put women on the battlefield in Afghanistan. In this edited excerpt from her book, Ashley’s War, writ...

Sebastian Junger’s last patrol

Veterans often have a hard time returning to civilian life after war. Sebastian Junger offers a counterintuitive theory about why. In his new film, The Last Patrol, Sebastian Ju...

Why it’s so hard to come home from war

America’s war in Afghanistan has been its longest, and arguably its most grueling — and yet for 13 years it’s also been strangely invisible. For those of us far removed from the...