War

Getting Bin Laden Nicholas Schmidle • New Yorker The story of the Abbottabad raid.

The Surreal Ruins of Qaddafi's Never-Never Land Robert F. Worth • New York Times Magazine The aftermath of a revolution.

Spy Games Scott Horton • Foreign Policy Why Pakistan let a CIA contractor go.

The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Daniel Voll • Esquire The uncertain fate of Baghdad's top terrorist hunter.

The Kill Team: How U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians Mark Boal • Rolling Stone The war crime the Pentagon tried to censor.

Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder Mark Mazzetti and Emily B. Hager • New York Times The mercenary army funded by an oil-rich Sheikdom.

The Last Two Veterans of WWI Evan Fleischer • The Awl The end of an era.

The Boy from Gitmo Michael Paterniti • GQ The Afghani kid who spent seven years in detention.

Echoes from a Distant Battlefield Mark Bowden • Vanity Fair A battle in Afghanistan seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.