The day after the shooting at a combat stress clinic in Iraq, new data released to Salon shows soldiers committing suicide at a record-setting pace. Is combat stress the reason?
By Mark Benjamin May 12, 2009
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Private messages reveal a dispute at the highest levels about the proper role of psychologists in interrogation, and whether cooperating with the Bush administration was unethical.
By Sheri Fink
May 8, 2009
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A veterans organization and a government watchdog group have asked the House Armed Services Committee to investigate a veterans healthcare scandal exposed by Salon.
By Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna
May 5, 2009
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A Senate report shows that during the Bush administration's War on Terror, mental health professionals raised questions about harsh interrogations -- but helped design interrogation programs anyway.
By Sheri Fink
May 5, 2009
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Matthew Marino was sent back to Afghanistan for a second tour of duty after the Army diagnosed him with "anxiety disorder" instead of post-traumatic stress disorder.
By Mark Benjamin and Michael de Yoanna
April 10, 2009
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Why is the Army sending sick troops back into combat? You won't learn the answer from a new internal report.
By Mark Benjamin
April 23, 2009
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A summary of an Army investigation says some soldiers with PTSD may not get the diagnoses they deserve -- but nobody in the Army did anything wrong.
April 9, 2009
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A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army and Senate have ignored the implications.
By Michael de Yoanna and Mark Benjamin
April 8, 2009
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As he prepares to return to Iraq, the MTV reality show star discusses how it feels to be redeployed -- and to learn about it on camera.
By Caitlin Shamberg
April 1, 2009
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Democrats fought the surge and the surge -- sort of -- won. Now what do we do in Iraq?
By Joan Walsh
February 18, 2009
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Col. Sean MacFarland, who told Jean Feggins her son was killed by enemy action, is the same officer who may have covered up her son's death by
friendly fire.
By Mark Benjamin
December 4, 2008
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No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.
By Mark Benjamin
December 1, 2008
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Hours after Salon revealed evidence that two Americans were killed by a U.S. tank, not enemy fire, military officials destroyed papers on the men.
By Mark Benjamin
November 20, 2008
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A soldier who was ordered to shred documents about two soldiers killed in an apparent friendly fire incident rescued some of the paperwork and provided it to Salon.
November 20, 2008
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The Army says no, but a graphic video and eyewitness testimony indicate that a U.S. tank killed two American soldiers. The mother of one soldier demands answers.
By Mark Benjamin
October 14, 2008
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Corrupt government and the U.S.'s mismanaged "surge" strategy have led to the Taliban's powerful resurgence in Afghanistan.
By Anand Gopal
October 10, 2008
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How the U.S. wildly overestimated the use of military power in Bush's global war on terror.
By Andrew Bacevich
August 15, 2008
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The U.S. signed up legions of sketchy Iraqi fighters to help stop sectarian violence. Now, most may lose their security jobs -- but remain armed and angry.
By Anna Badkhen
August 6, 2008
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A Salon investigation reveals that a shortage of skilled sergeants has led to dubious promotions for inexperienced soldiers -- even jeopardizing some operations in Iraq.
By Bill Sasser
July 30, 2008
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He's a little crazy. Should I wait around for six years?
By Cary Tennis
May 14, 2008
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The president's nominee to head Veterans Affairs oversaw a military healthcare crisis long before the Walter Reed scandal.
By Mark Benjamin
November 5, 2007
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As the U.S. takes sides in Iraq's splintering civil war, a top Republican warns Bush's policy will fail.
By Juan Cole
June 28, 2007
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Veterans of the Iraq war, including heroic Army Cpl. Frank Sandoval, are dying here in America too.
By L. Okey Onyejekwe Jr.
June 22, 2007
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Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics -- likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
By Mark Benjamin
June 21, 2007
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In a few days I'll be waking to a bugle call -- unless there is still a way out.
By Cary Tennis
May 24, 2007