… is here, thanks to Drew Conway. Is it just me, or is the cancer metastasizing?

So here’s the Monday morning story you’re all going to be talking about: The New York Times goes deep on the background of Private Bradley Manning, the Baghdad-based Army intelligence specialist suspected of passing all that data to WikiLeaks. It’s an emotional, fascinating read. But the story doesn’t answer the one question that a lot [...]

BAGRAM AIR FIELD — I don’t know if any of you guys reading this are here at Bagram, but just in case you are or have a friend or loved one who is: Come to the USO tonight at 1800 and show off your tattoos. I’m going to be taking pictures for a photo gallery [...]

Thanks for sticking with us, your humble guest bloggers, for our first week trying gallantly to step into the big shoes Spencer left behind. We’ve filled six pages of blog this week, which may just barely keep up Spencer’s pace! Here’s some of the highlights. Spencer checked in from Afghanistan not once but twice; Mikey [...]

Sixty five years ago, in a historical confluence of brilliant minds, global events and a kind of untempered colonial hubris, the United States took all of the collected knowledge of fundamental physical sciences known at the time and used it to create the most fearsome weapon man had ever known. Inured to large-scale horror by [...]

In the early dark of the night of March 26, under cloudy skies, a North Korean submarine launched a torpedo that detonated under the South Korean Pohang class Corvette Cheonan, creating a powerful jet that broke the 1200 ton warship in half. She sunk in minutes, with 46 sailors lost. The South Korean military response [...]

Entering it’s third year, the International Tribunal for Sierra Leone trial of Charles Taylor on charges of crimes against humanity took an odd twist. One of the unlikely contentions of Taylor’s defense, and one the prosecutors believed they could exploit, was that he had testified unequivocally that he had NEVER had uncut diamonds in his [...]

Apropos of Mikey’s last post on terrorist tactics, I have a new piece on MoJo about the Afghan Taliban’s new public affairs push…specifically, its messaging on the recent Time magazine cover. You know, the one with Aisha, the mutilated 18-year-old Afghan woman? According to a Taliban press release, she would have found satisfaction in a [...]

For years, terrorist attacks against the US and Europe have mostly followed the same rough outline. High symbolic value targets, mass casualty attacks against transportation infrastructure, and an obsessive focus on airports and airliners, and starting in the ‘90s the World Trade Center. I have found this narrow and repetitive approach to target selection and [...]

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — I’m being an MWR hog right now and that’s not cool. So before I sign off this computer and go back to reporting, I wanted to note a press conference that Vice Adm. Robert Harward gave to the Pentagon press corps. Craig Whitlock of the Post asks how many “third-party nationals [are] [...]