I'm not quite sure why there was ever an expectation that the architect of the Surge could provide the country with a dispassionate evaluation of its efficacy. Score one to the Bush PR machine ...

Skillfully interweaving the stories of five different servicemen from four different conflicts, “The Good Soldier” is a surprisingly nondoctrinaire docu about anti-war veterans that marches to ...

A Good Soldier doing his duty is something less than a charismatic figure. Indeed, one of the essential elements of charisma is the presence of a tragic flaw—a potential, ...

Today Senator Robinson’s service record, like that of a good soldier, is brief: enlisted in the public service as a member of the Arkansas General Assembly in 1894 (aged 21); re-enlisted in the ...

I came across Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion when I was in my teens, in a box of my late grandmother’s books. It was a paperback edition of Ford’s novel of 1915 ...