War is a reciprocated, armed conflict, between two or more non-congruous entities, aimed at reorganising a subjectively designed, geo-politically desired result. In the book, On War, theoretician Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the "continuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means."
War is not necessarily considered to be the same as occupation, murder, or genocide because of the reciprocal nature of the violent struggle, and the organized nature of the units involved.
A civil war is a war between factions of citizens of one country (such as in the English Civil War). A proxy war is a war that results when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.
War is also a cultural entity, is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. The conduct of war extends along a continuum, from the almost universal tribal warfare that began well before recorded human history, to wars between city states, nations, or empires
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News CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration
08-28-2010
The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according
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Feature Article Obama Iraq Speech To Signal Shift To Afghan Focus Ernest Hancock
With his Oval Office speech Tuesday night, President Barack Obama will signal a shift in America's focus from the Iraq War to the war in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Thursday.
Opinion Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama Boxed In by Generals on Afghanistan
08-26-2010 Ray Mcgovern
back from Afghanistan, Marine Commandant, Gen. James Conway held a news conference Tuesday to add his voice to the Pentagon campaign to disparage the July 2011 date President Barack Obama set for U.S. troops to begin leaving Afghanistan.
News US Drone Strike Destroys House Full of Children in Pakistan
08-26-2010
AntiWar
The Obama Administrations policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of suspected militants in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children
News Key Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Linked to C.I.A.
08-25-2010
NY Times
The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials.
News Obama's Afghan withdrawal date bolsters enemy-Marines
08-25-2010
Reuters
President Barack Obama's July 2011 date to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan has given a morale boost to Taliban insurgents, who believe they can wait out NATO forces, the top U.S. Marine said.
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News U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes in Yemen
08-25-2010
AP
U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen
News Facing Afghan mistrust, al-Qaeda fighters take limited role in insurgency
08-22-2010
Washington Post
Although US officials have often said that al-Qaeda is a marginal player on the Afghan battlefield, an analysis of 76,000 classified US military reports underscores the extent to which Osama bin Laden and his network have become an afterthought in th
News Combat brigades in Iraq under different name
08-22-2010
Army Times
Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members of an Advise and Assist Brigade, the Armys designation for brigades selected to conduct security force assistance.
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News Family, U.S. offer differing versions of deadly Afghan raid
08-22-2010
McClatchy News
When Ismail Nemati set out from Kabul to join his family for the start of the Islamic holy month his biggest fear was running into the Taliban. Before sunrise the next day, he lay bleeding in his family guest room, alongside 2 of his brothers, all sh
News Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape
08-21-2010
Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of molestation and rape. Assange wrote: "The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing."
News Despite new mission, US troops still in the fight in Iraq
08-20-2010
AFP
US troops will still be in combat and taking on Islamist militants in Iraq even as the American military moves to an "advise and assist" role with a smaller force, officials said Thursday.
The withdrawal of the last US combat brigade on Thursday w
News U.S. 'Combat Troops' Exit Iraq: 'What Noble Cause?'
08-19-2010
Brad Blog
4,415 U.S. troops never came home from Iraq. At least not alive. Tens of thousands more have had their lives forever shattered due to permanent physical and emotional injury. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis were slaughtered and maimed
News Can an Assassination Campaign Turn the Tide in Afghanistan?
08-19-2010
Time magazine
The Obama Administrations new military strategy in Afghanistan may be a sign of desperation a Hail Mary pass but it may just work. The President's counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan describes it as giving up the 'hammer' for the 'scalpel.' Th
News The United States Needs a Broad-Based Anti-War Movement
08-17-2010
Kevin Zeese
Can the Right and Left Work Together to Oppose War and Empire?
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News Karzai wants private security firms out of Afghanistan
08-16-2010
Washington Post
American officials were stunned Monday by a surprise announcement from President Hamid Karzai's spokesman calling for the dissolution within four months of the private security companies that foreign armies and aid organizations in Afghanistan rely o
News Pat Tillman's Father To Army Investigator: 'F--- You... And Yours'
08-13-2010
Huffington Post
There always was a dark cinematic thread to the story of Pat Tillman: the football star imbued with post-9/11 patriotism who was killed in a friendly-fire incident in the Afghan mountains and the allegations of a massive bureaucratic cover-up involvi
News Gitmo Controversy: The Queasy Case of Omar Khadr
08-13-2010
Time magazine
This week saw the first steps in the trial of its youngest and most controversial inmate.
If Khadr is convicted by a jury composed of US military officers, he will be the first person convicted of war crimes committed as a child since WW II.
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News Pentagon: Undisclosed Wikileaks documents 'potentially more explosive'
08-12-2010
Washington Post
Pentagon officials believe they have identified the 15,000 classified Afghanistan war documents that the online site WikiLeaks has obtained and not yet disclosed, and the military is now sifting through them for references that could harm troops or c
News Guantanamo jury gives al Qaida cook 14-year sentence
08-12-2010
McClatchy News
A military jury handed down a 14-year war crimes sentence against an al Qaida cook and driver Wednesday, unaware that prosecutors made a secret deal that will reportedly send him home much earlier.
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Feature Article The Cycle of Violence in Afghanistan - by Ron Paul Powell Gammill
A govt. report on the effect of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq confirmed what critics have been saying for years: The killing of civilians, although unintentional, angers other civilians and prompts them to seek revenge. This is self-evi
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News Taliban launch attacks on U.S., Afghan military posts
08-09-2010
Reuters
Taliban insurgents staged attacks on 3 combat posts of Afghan and US forces in a southeastern Afghan province. The official did not say how many militants were involved in the attacks or give any details about the type of the strikes in Paktika prov
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News Iraq forces take over from last U.S. combat brigade
08-08-2010
Reuters
The US handed over control of all combat duties to Iraqi security forces on Saturday in a further sign its withdrawal is on track despite a political impasse in Iraq and a recent rise in violence. President Obama said he would stick to his promise to
News Guantanamo Trials: Gitmo Gears Up For 1st Trial Under Obama
08-08-2010
AP
Lt. Colonel Jackson, Pentagon-appointed defense lawyer for Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who will be the first trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Khadr, 23, is due to stand trial for war crimes allegedly committed when he was 15 years old.
News Karzai's attempts to assert control over US corruption probes
08-06-2010
Washington Post
Obama administration officials fear that a move by Afghan President Karzai to assert control over U.S.-backed corruption investigations might threaten congressional approval of billions more of your tax dollars in pending aid.
News Scott Horton debates Iran's lack of a Nuclear Program
08-04-2010
Youtube Iran UCR 2of2.mp4
Scott Horton is Assistant Editor at Antiwar.com and host of Anti War Radio. This is an excerpt from a debate on, "Obama's Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the Fate of the Middle East" that took place at the University of California Riverside.
News Pentagon: Rolling Stone writer whose article ended McChrystal's career denied embed request
08-04-2010
AP
The author of the Rolling Stone article that ended the military career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander in Afghanistan, has been denied permission to join U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
News Germany gave assassination target list to secret US death squad
08-03-2010
Rawstory
The German government supplied a secret Pentagon task force with names of Taliban leaders that the US then could target for assassination. The German government abetted a secret program to kill or capture Taliban leaders bypassing transparency and ju
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News 45 die in revenge attacks in Pakistan's Karachi
08-03-2010
AP
Gunmen killed at least 45 people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a prominent lawmaker set off a cycle of revenge attacks, officials said Tuesday. Dozens of vehicles and shops were set ablaze as security forces struggled to regai
Headlines: 45 die in revenge attacks in Pakistan's Karachi -- Germany gave assassination target list to secret US death squad -- Pentagon: Rolling Stone writer whose article ended McChrystal's career denied embed request -- Freedom Watch July 31st, 2010 - Part 1 of 5. -- Scott Horton debates Iran's lack of a Nuclear Program -- Karzai's attempts to assert control over US corruption probes -- Guantanamo Trials: Gitmo Gears Up For 1st Trial Under Obama -- Iraq forces take over from last U.S. combat brigade -- Taliban launch attacks on U.S., Afghan military posts -- The Cycle of Violence in Afghanistan - by Ron Paul -- Guantanamo jury gives al Qaida cook 14-year sentence -- Pentagon: Undisclosed Wikileaks documents 'potentially more explosive' -- Gitmo Controversy: The Queasy Case of Omar Khadr -- Pat Tillman's Father To Army Investigator: 'F--- You... And Yours' -- Karzai wants private security firms out of Afghanistan -- The United States Needs a Broad-Based Anti-War Movement -- Can an Assassination Campaign Turn the Tide in Afghanistan? -- U.S. 'Combat Troops' Exit Iraq: 'What Noble Cause?' -- Despite new mission, US troops still in the fight in Iraq -- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape -- Family, U.S. offer differing versions of deadly Afghan raid -- Combat brigades in Iraq under different name -- Facing Afghan mistrust, al-Qaeda fighters take limited role in insurgency -- U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes in Yemen -- Obama's Afghan withdrawal date bolsters enemy-Marines -- Key Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Linked to C.I.A. -- US Drone Strike Destroys House Full of Children in Pakistan -- Obama Boxed In by Generals on Afghanistan -- Obama Iraq Speech To Signal Shift To Afghan Focus -- CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration --
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