http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175357/ “greater security doesn’t come from fighting more wars; it comes from fighting fewer of them or none at all.” An excellent article about problems current American war strategy. Read it, if you indeed “support the troops”.
http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/223533.html#cutid1 Article by Akrady Babchenko ( http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag;=mozilla-20&index;=blended&link;_code=qs&field-keywords;=babchenko ) about how Dedovschina (folk system of seniority based on stage of service, hazing tradition of the russian army ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovschina ) evolved and changed after recent reforms in the russian army
http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/223533.html#cutid1 Article by Akrady Babchenko ( http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag;=mozilla-20&index;=blended&link;_code=qs&field-keywords;=babchenko ) about how Dedovschina (folk system of seniority based on stage of service, hazing tradition of the russian army ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovschina ) evolved and changed after recent reforms in the russian army
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/atwar/winninginafghanistan1.pdf WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN, by CPT Carl Thompson 9 April 2009 /from the must-read sources for american personnel [about to be] deployed in Afghanistan / Exceptionally good article about strategy and leadership. It contains a lot of specifies that are only relevant to military and Afghanistan , but there are enough general points as well. Excellent writing, despite a need to decipher some military lingvo
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-we-lost-the-war-we-won-rolling-stones-2008-journey-into-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-20110131 a story from 2008, when one [arab] journalist ventured into Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and wrote a piece about his hosts and overall situation in Afghanistan.
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/the-weakness-of-taliban-marksmanship/ An interesting article about small arms skills and marksmanship of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The articles suggests that those skills are low, and offers plausible explanation, but it nevertheless works OK for Taliban
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-job-mossad-assassination-hamas?printable=true story about how mossad conducted an assassination of hamas leader in Dubai
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/unmanned-aircraft-1109 An article in Esquire about how UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) missions look up close.