The New Pentagon: Soldiers of Fortune 500
America can not only occupy a country and level its industrial capacity, it can now, as a combined war machine and colonial Chamber of Commerce, actually pave the way for US companies to move on in.
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War Update: Bubblegum
This isn't the first time we've discussed the Military's female units operating in Afghanistan, and particularly, domestic media's fawning fascination with them. I'm wondering if this photo leading an MSNBC video, however, doesn't cut a couple different ways.
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Your Turn: He Knows If You've Been Bad or Good
Onward Christian Soldiers? Santa Baby? “Sleigh” Bells? Do You Hear What I Hear? All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth? I’ll Be Home For Christmas? I was wondering what you make of this Christmas Day photo so widely published in the galleries yesterday. Was it just...
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There Will Be Hugs: Obama In Afghanistan
Good luck trying to reach past "support the troops" to say anything about what's going on outside that hanger.
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Afghanistan: What You (Think You) See Is What You Get (I Guess)
In light of Petraeus hyping a series of major meetings with what turns out to be a Taliban imposter, excuse me for feeling the urge to modify the caption of this four-week-old wire photo
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Trail of Two War Medals
I'm especially drawn to the two seats of power, and how much the Stock Exchange has become a primary platform for celebrating our warriors -- cultural commodities and impermanent icons that they are.
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When We Decide to Know
Usually I avoid rubbing your face in it, but not today. This image, which has been sitting on my desktop for a few months, is offered out of anger, grief, and extreme frustration with press, public, and the Obama administration--and most of all with the public.
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Wikileaks II: We Are Blackwater
Gervasio Sanchez/A.P. The Department of Defense (DOD) increasingly relies upon contractors to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has resulted in a DOD workforce that has 19% more contractor personnel (207,600) than uniformed personnel (175,000). Contractors make up 54% of DOD’s workforce in Iraq and Afghanistan. — Department...
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John Moore’s Detention Photos: We Just Lost
Love the war or hate the war, drawing us into the body of that soldier and then having us consider that image through his eyes is just crushing.
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How to Read a War Carpet
Here's how you read the war carpet in its original form....
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Mike Kamber: Military Censorship — (Update: Winner of POYi Award of Excellence)
Reading the Pictures is pleased to offer this exclusive audio slideshow featuring an interview with Michael Kamber, contract war photographer for the New York Times, and a focused look at the issue of military censorship, including photos he's insisted on being seen.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Individual Wars
Jeremy Lange's fourth post from the War At Home: The individual experiences of war.
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My Pick(s) of the Afghan War 9th Anniversary Slideshows
They only heard what they wanted to hear.
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Got a Tired Occupation on Your Hands? Feminize It.
In the end, female marines with guns are, well, simply marines with the guns.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Surge Babies
Jeremy Lange's third post from the War At Home: Death in uniform, surge babies, and cupcakes.
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April Rabkin: Election Posters Highlight Propaganda Surrounding Afghan Election
It is an inspiring sight, at first: the streets of Afghanistan are saturated with campaign posters. They're on storefronts, roadside billboards, even festooning lampposts like holiday streamers. Democracy must be blooming, right?
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Wounded Warriors
Jeremy Lange's War Home At Home: The Wounded Warriors of Camp LeJeune. President Obama made a speech from the Oval Office ten days ago, but the question neither he, nor anyone, can truly answer is if all this death and suffering was in vain.
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Equating Muslims with the Threat of Violence? You're Kidding, Right?
In the current atmosphere -- given the attacks on Obama's religious status and the NYC Islamic center, coupled with the obsessive preoccupation with the small-time Florida preacher intent on holding a 9/11 Quran burning -- I can't see where a photo like this is very constructive.
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