Category: New York Times

The New York Times Magazine
Ideas of 2002
December 15, 2002
Should an American who is suspected of having links to Al Qaeda have the right to a lawyer and the right to not answer questions about coming attacks? The U.S. government has been holding two Americans incommunicado at military ...  (Read more)

The New York Times Magazine
December 14, 2003
A convention of military strategy is that you do not rush tanks into the center of a hostile city unless you wish to lose them. In 1994 the Russians learned this fatal lesson when they sent an armored column into Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, ...  (Read more)

The New York Times Magazine
New tools for an occupation.
December 14, 2003
During the invasion of Iraq, the American military displayed amazing technological superiority, firing missiles that flew nearly 1,000 miles before hitting their targets precisely, with a margin of error of ...  (Read more)

The New York Times
May 11, 2003
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The news conference was held in splendid isolation. Splendid, that is, if you enjoy being walled off from the rest of Baghdad by tanks, armored Humvees, barbed wire and a small army of soldiers bearing M-16 assault rifles and .50-caliber machine guns.

The ...  (Read more)

The New York Times Magazine
Moqtadah al-Sadr wants an Iraq run by God’s laws. But first he has to outsmart his rivals, outmaneuver the Americans and get Iraq’s millions of Shiites behind him.
May 11, 2003
Najaf is one of the great spiritual centers of the world’s 120 million ...  (Read more)

The New York Times Magazine
To get to Baghdad, the marines of the Third Battalion fought the old-fashioned way–by shooting as many of the enemy as they could. Their victims weren’t all soldiers.
April 20, 2003
As the war in Iraq is debated and turned into history, the emphasis ...  (Read more)

The New York Times Magazine
April 13, 2003
The following is an interview I conducted with Lance Corporal Derrick Jensen, published in the April 13 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

First off I want people to understand that there is more than just combat. We’re not seeing fighting at all times. ...  (Read more)

The New York Times
Food, Too, Can Be a Weapon of the War In Iraq.
April 6, 2003
AL KUT, Iraq–A few days ago I drove with a Marine convoy into the desert north of Nasiriya, heading toward Baghdad. The landscape was as unforgiving as it comes–parched and barren, like the ...  (Read more)