All in a Morning's Work: How Haditha Happened

In the new Vanity Fair, the great journalist William Langewiesche describes how pressured young American soldiers operating under vague Army rules of engagement descended to the level of mass murderers

Rules of Engagement

On November 19, 2005, in Haditha, during Kilo Company's third tour of duty in Iraq, a land mine planted by insurgents exploded beneath a Humvee, killing a 20-year-old Marine. What happened next—the slaughter of 24 Iraqi men, women, and children—was not entirely an aberration. These actions were rooted in the very conduct of the war. As the men of Kilo Company face investigation, the author exposes the political, military, and human realities that now make such carnage routine

By WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE
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