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Lawful, but Enormously Destructive

February 23, 2025

Washington Week With The Atlantic

What Trump’s Purge Could Mean for the Military

February 22, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

A Friday-Night Massacre at the Pentagon

February 21, 2025

A photograph of Charles Quinton Brown Jr., the 21st chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Trump’s Wild Plan for Gaza

Jonathan Lemire

February 4, 2025

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

America Is Now Counting on You, Pete Hegseth

January 25, 2025

The Atlantic Daily

Twelve Stories You Won’t Want to Miss

Mary Stachyra Lopez

December 22, 2024

Bring Back the War Department

Elliot Ackerman

December 5, 2024

Collage with black-and-white photo of U.S. soldiers in WWII carrying the American flag, with a red Department of Defense stamp, and a photo of officials in front of the American flag.

What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Military

November 30, 2024

Photo of Donald Trump and an army major general watching two helicopters take off

The Experiment Podcast: The Wandering Soul

November 25, 2021

A distorted illustration depicts helicopters over a Vietnam skyline. “The Wandering Soul” is written English and Vietnamese.

The U.S. Military Is Not Ready for a Constitutional Crisis

February 11, 2020

A helicopter flies over Arctic ice toward the Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station.

‘The Tragedy of the American Military’ Remains

November 11, 2019

U.S. Army marched in the Veterans Day parade on November 11, 2014.