COMMON GROUND
The link between national sacrifice and war-making has become increasingly foreign. It was once essential.
The author of ‘The Things They Carried’ talks about the importance of the newest Ken Burns documentary, and how relevant the war is today.
R.I.P.
Never quite as famous as he deserved to be but always taking his readers on jarring and unexpected journeys, novelist Denis Johnson moved between the real and the surreal.
THRESHOLD
An excerpt from Elliot Ackerman's latest novel, a love story set along the Turkish-Syrian border amidst the ongoing civil war.
Leatherneck Tap Dances
When asked what it was like to fight in Fallujah, I have yet to come up with an explanation that’s better than, “Exactly like the battle scenes in Full Metal Jacket.”
Anatolian Angst
A former Marine in Istanbul fears that his family is now at risk in a NATO country—and pretty much everywhere else.
BOOK EXCERPT
In Green on Blue, his debut novel, Elliot Ackerman looks at the war in Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view. Read a passage from this extraordinary fiction.
Geronimo
BEAST FICTION: I shot Bin Laden but first he shot me. Then I got the dinner at Applebee’s, bad dreams and a nervous Stomach.
War Crossing
At the Syrian-Turkish border, only a few miles from where Steven Sotloff was kidnapped, the first sign of ISIS was man whose fingers were chopped off.
Elliot Ackerman calls in to CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin to discuss why airstrikes are not a strategy for the U.S. in Iraq, and what the strategy for combating ISIS should be.