Tag: us military

• It’s a paradox: Dominic Tierney’s political platitudes

  One can almost picture Tierney offering platitudes to undergraduates at Swarthmore as he scribbles dates and quotes on the whiteboard, asking “Can America return to victory?” But by whose measure, and for what cause, should the United States return to victory?

  Adam McCauley

  June 8, 2015

  Published

  Afghanistan, Dominic Tierney, Euphemism, Iraq, Orwellwouldbedisappointed, The Atlantic, us military, War

• Morning Brief: November 14, 2013

  

  What I’m reading/thinking/writing about today. November 14, 2013.

  Adam McCauley

  November 14, 2013

  Writing

  African security, Boko Haram, Chevron, Ecuador, environmental challenges, future of warfare, nigeria, us military

• The war tried to kill us… The majesty of The Yellow Birds

  

  What bleeds from these passages are not the musings of a stubborn and hungry war-machine created by the world’s most powerful military, it’s the seething helplessness felt by those tasked with responsibilities most colossal: to feign power when positioned as pawn.

  Adam McCauley

  May 8, 2013

  Reporter’s Notebook

  Afghanistan, deaths, Iraq, Kevin Powers, soldiers, The American Novel, The Yellow Birds, us military, War