New Poem by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat (Loyalty)”
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New Poem by J.S. Alexander: “Sabat (Loyalty)”
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I escaped to America after my fiancé, Farhid, died. He was an officer in the Afghan National Army in Bagarm when he w…
Memoirs written by soldiers and Marines who fought in the Second Battle of Fallujah in Iraq and the Korengal Valley i…
It was a typical Thursday night at the Taj Tiki Bar, tucked away off the Jalalabad – Kabul road in the hamlet of Bagr…
In my blog Time Now: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Art, Film, and Literature I rarely reviewed memoir and non-f…
Humanity in Afghanistan For the average American G.I. who served in Afghanistan, the country was of a different world…
New Poem by Jennifer Smith: “So This is My Career”
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In the Mind of Madness There is a nightmare I used to have with some regularity even before my time in the military, …
Andrew Elliot Davis was born July 1, 1990 in Worcester, MA; his family moved to Milford, NH, where he graduated high …
What did you do if you were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and believed the wars you volunteered to fight were uneth…
It’s a commonplace that America largely ignored the long war in Afghanistan while it was being fought. Now, aft…
I have come to do a writing residency at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Molise, southern Italy, in a remote mounta…
My eagerness propelled me up the airplane steps. Eleven years to the day. Well, technically eleven years and a day. W…
When I first saw the photo of David Spicer in a 2009 Army Times, I was excited to recognize my friend there on the pa…
Lee Harkness was supposed to meet this guy Smitty at a bar called Marty’s on 14th Street at a specified time. Lee was…
Viraj sat in a room behind the motel reception counter, eating a bowl of bhaat with his fingers when the desk bell ch…
May 3, 2009 After Captain Short returned from his training with the Australians, he scheduled himself to take leave t…
Author’s note: I arrived at this story after reading an article in Rolling Stone called ‘Highway to Hell:…
“I was lying in a burned‐out basement with the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement when the sun burst …
Noor and his wife Damsa moved to Paris when the Russians invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Twenty-two years later, after t…
Skip Rohde was an officer in the Navy for twenty-two years, with four submarine deployments and service in Desert Shi…
“I was lying in a burned‐out basement with the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement when the sun burst …
Sergeant Reiss insisted on giving a full patrol order every time we left the wire. I thought it was overkill, …
I first heard about Brett Allen’s debut novel, ’Kilroy Was Here’, by tweet from Matt Gallagher (@MattGallagher0), aut…
This is the memory that stays with him as his blood abandons the body and life fades—this, the one comfort that will …
If I were to write a morality tale about America’s counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan—something in line with Ed…
Elliot Ackerman is the author of four novels–most recently Red Dress in Black and White, set in Istanbul primar…
In view of the failures of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, which has seen over 2 million cases and more than 115,00…
The following short story is based on the myth “Ceyx and Alceone,” as recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Cy busied hi…
A portion of this essay was originally published in Cobalt Review. It came by helicopter twice a week, if weather and…
1. Celebrate them. 2. Celebrate the soldier who went to war Just to kill. This soldier accused of shooting and Killin…
Captain Alex Athens had been the undisputed master of PowerPoint storyboards within the brigade headquarters since th…
Amy Waldman’s novel, A Door in the Earth, follows Parveen, a young Afghan-American woman who returns to her war…
Excerpted from A DOOR IN THE EARTH Copyright © 2019 by Amy Waldman. Used with permission of Little, Brown and Company…
Still Come Home, the first novel from Flashes of War author Katey Schultz, opens in the tiny town of Imar, Afghanista…
October 08, 2019 The war in Afghanistan is now old enough to go to war in Afghanistan. Yesterday the war in Afghanist…
August 2011 I remember when you first joined, I used to tell you that the Army would be four years, the way that coll…
Correction submitted by Delta Company paratrooper: five, not four, paratroopers died from the IED. “Matthew Tay…
Michael Florez felt called to the Marines. “No greater love than dying for your brother,” the 42-year-old Oregon resi…
Zone Rouge (for the centennial) 1. When the land was. 2. Full of bodies dead. And twisted. 3. When the fighting was. …
It was in the news. On a bright summer day in Helmand Province, Lance Corporal Wickie did his duty and killed an insu…
“The Interpreters,” a new documentary film by directors Sofian Khan and Andres Caballero, is a raw, emotionally vigor…
Night Flash You’ve been having nightmares again. The cruel shaking of a body resisting slumber. Hands twitching, ches…
Guest Interviewer Peter Molin of Time Now interviews U.S. Navy veteran Will Mackin. Mackin’s work has appeared …
We had a dry spell in Logar. It was December and the weather was dog shit, so a degree of slowness was expected. But …
Jay Baron Nicorvo’s novel, The Standard Grand (St. Martin’s Press), was picked for IndieBound’s Ind…
Captain Who? That gut-black October night, a security patrol set out: a platoon of Afghans and two of us. They…
To watch soldiers load into planes on television To ignore veterans who manage to make it home To cry out when an air…
The YouTube walkthroughs have names, like action movies or episodes of a serial TV show. Judgment Day. Suffer With Me…
Concerning whether or not I am a horse I strap torso & press arms to diaphragm with breath deep the distressed vo…