www.cobbforpeace.org

America’s troops may be returning home from Iraq, but contrary to President Obama’s assertion that “the tide of war is receding,” we’re far from done paying the costs of war. In fact, at the same time that Obama is reducing the number of troops in Iraq, he’s replacing them with military contractors at far greater expense to the taxpayer and redeploying American troops to other parts of the globe, including Africa, Australia and Israel.
http://njtoday.net/2012/01/16/privatizing-the-war-on-terror-americas-mil...

It has been seven years since the end of the second siege of Fallujah – the US assault that left the city in ruins, killed thousands of civilians, and displaced hundreds of thousands more; the assault that poisoned a generation, plaguing the people who live there with cancers and their children with birth defects.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/22/fallujah-us-marine-iraq

The private papers of the late George F. Kennan, Cold War architect and diplomat extraordinaire, reveal his anguish over the way his famous 1947 warning about Soviet expansionism helped transform the America he loved into one he no longer recognized: a national-security state.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/01/Todd-Purdum-on-National-Security

BAGHDAD — Almost nine years after the first American tanks began massing on the Iraq border, the Pentagon declared an official end to its mission here, closing a troubled conflict that helped reshape American politics and left a bitter legacy of anti-American sentiment across the Muslim world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/middleeast/panetta-in-baghdad-fo...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. military’s humvee truck replacement is expected to cost the U.S. around $350,000 each, on average, before tacking on armor and any additional high-tech equipment, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this week.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-army-trucks-may-cost-350000-each-ga...

Disturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in Afghanistan is being shown to frontline British soldiers in "Kill TV nights" designed to boost morale, a television documentary will reveal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-soldiers-in-afgha...

This is a report by the Commission on Wartime Contracting that was published in August 2011.
Chapter 3 of that report details many of the major problems that were found including fraud and waste.
http://www.wartimecontracting.gov/