'The Hurt Locker' and America's Fading Memory of the Iraq War On the 21st anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it's time to reassess how "The Hurt Locker" and other movies and TV shows...
Americans Were Never Supposed to Hear Toby Keith's Ass-Kicking Post-9/11 Battle Song on the Radio You know the one we mean. The commandant of the Marine Corps convinced him America needed it.
'Hiding Saddam Hussein': How a Farmer Kept a Brutal Dictator Safe from US Troops Filmmaker Halkawt Mustafa spent a decade telling the story of how an Iraqi farmer who knew little about Saddam Hussein came...
Iraq Campaign Medal Returns Amid Surge in Drone, Rocket Attacks on US Forces There he medal was introduced in 2016 and also covered service in Syria, even as the nature of those campaigns changed and...
Do Lessons from the Battles for Fallujah Apply to Gaza? "While Fallujah and Gaza are dissimilar in terms of military operations and policy resolve, they are similar in their mutual...
Why Military Education Isn't to Blame for Afghanistan and Iraq Purported failures in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan -- even the microcosm of Kabul -- are arguably symptoms of greater...
A New Graphic Novel Depicts Alwyn Cashe's Medal of Honor Action The Association of the United States Army regularly publishes free comic books depicting Medal of Honor actions.
A Complicated Legacy: Army Officer Who Exposed Iraq Abuse Was Under FBI Suspicion at the End of His Life During his military career, Army Maj. Ian Fishback reported 82nd Airborne Division abuses of prisoners in Iraq, prompting...
How 2 Guys with No Medical Experience Changed Battlefield Medicine Forever Before QuickClot was introduced to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the methods medics used to stop bleeding in...
20 Years Later, Senate Votes to Repeal Iraq War Authorizations The bill, which was sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Todd Young, R-Ind., would also repeal the 1991 AUMF that...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-03/1time%20the%20hurt%20locker%201200.jpg?itok=bm3TskVn "Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie star in the equally loved and hated "The Hurt Locker." (Summit Entertainment)")
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-01/mil%20saddam%20hussein%20capture%201200.jpg?itok=eDw1ARYa ""Samir," an Iraqi-American translator, pins Saddam Hussein to the ground during the raid that captured the deposed Iraqi dictator on Dec. 13, 2003. (U.S. Army)")
