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C. J. Chivers

A mortar flies out of a tube

A new book tries to help more Americans understand what it’s really like at war in Iraq and Afghanistan

Books

New York Times journalist and former Marine infantry officer C.J. Chivers shows the realities of war through the lens of six combatants.

A soldier from the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade adjusts his gas mask prior to an air analysis mission near an oil and gas separation plant at the Baba Gurgur oil field outside northern Iraq's town of Kirkuk on May 3, 2003.

The Army’s secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure

Health

Investigation uncovers unacknowledged civilian casualties from NATO’s Libyan strikes

Times Correspondent C.J. Chivers on Reporting from Inside Syria