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The Twenty Years' War is (almost) over

Barack Obama said: "The American combat mission in Iraq has ended" -- seven years after George W. Bush said the same thing. Mike Pilewski comments.

Portrait of a child soldier in the US Civil War (1861-65), Nashville, Tennessee. Source: Library of Congress

The history game

History should be fun. Children should learn about it by playing computer games. Scottish academic Niall Ferguson has a vision of "doing for history what Jamie Oliver has done for school food: make it healthy, and so they actually want to eat it".

What not to say in an Irish pub

Mike Pilewski writes: "Whose fault is it if the war in Afghanistan isn't won?"

Waiting for the winds of change

Mike Pilewski writes: "Sixty years after the start of the Korean War, America and North Korea still view each other with suspicion."

The South will rise again (but not like this)

Mike Pilewski asks: "How should Americans remember the history of the Southern states? Were Confederate soldiers heroes or Nazis?"

The US Army is spending money on infrastructure that enables Afghans to use mobile phones. Photo: US Army.

Fighting the Taliban with mobile phones

Afghanistan, with 29 million people, has 12 million mobile-phone users. Afghans have formed text-message groups for everything from road conditions to food prices, while doctors in Bamian Province send X-rays and reports to Kabul using their phones.

End of the road for the "Ugly Americans"

Mike Pilewski writes: "The warning to all of us not to be Ugly Americans has finally reached a company that worked in Iraq."

Don't mention the war!

Mike Pilewski writes: "The Obama administration won't use Bush's name, the 'global war on terror', but that war is still being fought in some very exotic places."

Last chance in Afghanistan

A massive troop increase was an effective, last-minute military strategy in Iraq. But will it work in Afghanistan?

Stories from the Cold War

In the 1980s, it often seemed that World War III could start any minute.

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