Military

Gallery: How these powerful masks are helping combat veterans heal

Art therapist Melissa Walker uses masks to allow service members with traumatic brain injuries to express their deepest emotions and experiences, helping them and their loved on...

Women at war: How women ended up on the front line in Afghanistan

In 2010 the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created a pilot program to put women on the battlefield in Afghanistan. In this edited excerpt from her book, Ashley’s War, writ...

Sebastian Junger’s last patrol

Veterans often have a hard time returning to civilian life after war. Sebastian Junger offers a counterintuitive theory about why. In his film, The Last Patrol, Sebastian Junger...