Newsweek - Five years on, the war is transforming the American officer corps.

New York Times Magazine - America’s junior officers are fighting the war on the ground in Iraq, and the experience is making a number of them lose faith in their superiors.

New Yorker - Nobel laureate Gunter Grass reflects on how he spent World War II - with the Waffen SS.

New York Times Magazine - Many female soldiers have lived through the terrible violence of the war in Iraq. Others have experienced sexual assault - or worse, a combination of the two. They have found themselves struggling to cope with their lives.

Vanity Fair - As a former C.I.A. agent, the author Robert Baer knows how mercenaries work: in the shadows. But how did a notorious former British officer, Tim Spicer, come to coordinate the second-largest army in Iraq - the tens of thousands of private security contractors?