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Samimi laments the squandered chance for Afghanistan to start over. "Right after the collapse of the Taliban, the government had the opportunity to go after these commanders because they were scared and weak," she says. "Instead, the international community and the government supported them and made them stronger. They didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Warlords of Afghanistan | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

That, Iranians may be. But such gentleness should not lead Western visitors to think support for the values of the Islamic revolution has run its course. Every day the Mahestan shopping mall just off Revolution Street fills with students from the nearby universities. The mall is popular with Basijis--the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking and Listening to Iran | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

History is written by the victors, and that's plainly the case in Tom Ricks' gritty volume on the surge phase of the Iraq war. Generals David Petraeus and Ray Odierno are the flawed but authentic heroes who pushed through a strategy to suppress Iraq's festering civil war; the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Victories and Defeats — in Washington | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Gates, the U.S.'s 22nd Defense Secretary, has declared a low-key war against the military services and the way they develop and buy the weapons they use to defend the nation. Up until now, he has done that mostly by jawboning: The U.S. can't "eliminate national-security risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Gates Tame the Pentagon? | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Carriers replaced battleships at the center of U.S. naval power in World War II, but they've been losing ground, offensively and defensively, for years. Until the 1980s, the offensive punch of smaller warships was limited to short-range guns. But now these ships pack Tomahawk cruise missiles, giving every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Gates Tame the Pentagon? | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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