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Army suicides soar past 2008's pace Army suicides soar past 2008's pace

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

  • A secret e-mail argument among psychologists about torture

    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

  • Two groups call for probe following Salon exposé

    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

  • The reluctant enablers of torture

    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

  • "I believe that I did have PTSD"

    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

  • The Army investigates itself again

    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

  • "This report does not find pressure to change clinical diagnoses"

    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

  • "I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD"

    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

  • "The Real World's" Ryan speaks

    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

  • This war is our war

    Democrats fought the surge and the surge -- sort of -- won. Now what do we do in Iraq?
    By Joan Walsh February 18, 2009

  • Lying to the mother of a dead soldier

    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

  • Sympathy for Charles Graner

    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

  • New friendly fire coverup: Army shreds files on dead soldiers

    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

  • A document saved from the Army's shredder

    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

  • Friendly fire in Iraq -- and a coverup

    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

  • Why we're losing in Afghanistan

    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

  • Illusions of victory under Bush

    How the U.S. wildly overestimated the use of military power in Bush's global war on terror.
    By Andrew Bacevich August 15, 2008

  • "We were basically hiring terrorists"

    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

  • Strained by war, U.S. Army promotes unqualified soldiers

    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

  • My fiancé suddenly joined the Marines

    He's a little crazy. Should I wait around for six years?
    By Cary Tennis May 14, 2008

  • Bush's careless choice for Iraq vets

    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

  • Surging toward disaster in Iraq

    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

  • One U.S. soldier who must be counted

    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

  • The CIA's torture teachers

    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

  • I enlisted in the Army -- but now I've changed my mind!

    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
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