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Lethal Attack on U.S. Military Base in Jordan

By Dan Nexon

On January 28, 2024

Image prompted by Dan Nexon at Nightcafe From the New York Times: Three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan on Sunday and 25 others were injured in what the Biden administration said was a drone strike from an Iran-backed militia, the first American military...

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World Violence

By Erik Loomis

On March 21, 2015

If it seems to you that we have seen an uptick in war and violence around the world, the statistics suggest you are correct.

Robert Farley

Deployment

By Robert Farley

On September 3, 2012

If you haven't had a chance, please take a minute to read Maria's long, wonderful discussion of life with a deployed British soldier. The phone company doesn’t care No, he.

War is Peace

By Paul Campos

In General

On June 22, 2011

Report: 10,000 Troops Leaving Afghanistan This Year Kerry and McCain United Behind the Mysteriously Urgent Libya Mission Iraq Violence Intensifies as Talks Continue on U.S. Troop Presence In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By Paul Campos

On February 11, 2011

From Jay McInerney's review of Kenneth Slawenski's new Salinger biography: For this reader, the great achievement of Slawenski’s biography is its evocation of the horror of Salinger’s wartime experience. Despite.