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War Cries

From messages sent to Helpdesk.media, a website that answers anonymous questions from Russians. Hi! I am a contract military person. My contract is about to end. I filed my dismissal…

The Boys, in Blue

by Eric Wycoff Rogers,

From “The Men behind the Girl behind the Man behind the Gun,” which appeared in the May 2022 edition of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. In his 1919…

The Matter of War

by Nicole Tung,

Photographs from Ukraine

Inhale, Execute

From FM 7-22 Holistic Health and Fitness, a training field manual for soldiers. Each sentence was taken from the 244-page guide, which was revised and republished last October by the…

Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles

by Joan Didion,

From Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a collection of essays that will be published next month by Knopf. The essay originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in…