Sunday Times Magazine (London)
Lieutenant Tim McLaughlin was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and in Baghdad the day it fell. Ten years on, he shares his graphic war diaries for the first time.
March 3, 2013
A few years ago, a former marine named Tim McLaughlin drove to New Hampshire in his red pickup ...
Category: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Don’t Trust “Zero Dark Thirty”
The Atlantic Online
The acclaimed thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden represents a troubling new frontier of government-embedded filmmaking.
12-13-2012
One of the most dramatic scenes in Zero Dark Thirty, the new film by Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, takes place in a conference ...
An Enduring Condition
The Nation
May 9, 2012
The phrase “war on terror” is rarely heard these days. Our fight in Iraq ended last year with the pullout of the remaining troops. Combat forces are set to be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014, and their fade-away has been highlighted by the fact that more private ...
Celebrating the Celebrations
The New Yorker Online
May 4, 2011
(An online-only article at NewYorker.com)
Can a news photograph be too vivid? It’s an essential question as we consider the pros and cons of President Barack Obama’s decision not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. So far, though, the American media ...
The Toppling
The New Yorker
How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war
January 3, 2011
On April 9, 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan McCoy, commander of the 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, awoke at a military base captured from the Iraqis a few miles from the center of Baghdad, which was still ...
Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil
Foreign Policy
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession.
September 8, 2009
Across the globe, oil is invoked as an agent of destiny. Oil will make you rich, oil will make you poor, oil will bring ...
Situation Normal
Slate
What “Generation Kill” Gets Right About Iraq
July 18, 2008
http://www.slate.com/id/2195528/
I hate Skittles. I perfected this dislike while covering the invasion of Iraq, because the gummy pills of sugar and fruit were included in the MREs fed to soldiers, Marines, ...
The Salvadorization of Iraq?
The New York Times Magazine
The counterinsurgency is increasingly being waged by former elite troops of Saddam Hussein’s army, with guidance from a U.S. adviser who in the 80’s commanded the Special Forces in El Salvador. It’s not a pretty campaign.
May 1, 2005
In a country ...
Tech Solutions in Far-Out Places
Popular Science
An ode to the Thuraya 7101 Satphone.
October 2004
After weeks in the Iraq desert covering the war for the New York Times Magazine, I can say confidently that it is not the place to be lost or hungry. Fortunately, my Thuraya Hughes 7101 satellite phone prevented both.
I’ll get to ...
What’s In Your Gadget Bag?
Gizmodo
A War Correspondent’s Digital Gear
May 3, 2004
Although we started out aiming for other topics, Gizmodo being what it is, we tended toward the technical, and ended up asking accomplished war correspondent Peter Maass something very much like “What’s in your Gadget ...