Topic: American Wars

A police officer maintains a safe distance as he detains a man defying the lockdown regulations (Prabin Ranabhat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The end of war as we know it?

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines watch the explosion after calling in an airstrike during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Making sense of the age of carnage

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com