War

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…

Army of Shadows

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Seth Harp on June 30, 2022

Over there: breaking through myths about the Ukrainian foreign legion Read More

On Moral Injury

by Janine di Giovanni,

Can a new diagnosis help heal our souls?

Salable Virtues

by Rony Brauman,

From Humanitarian Wars?, which will be published in April in the United Kingdom by Hurst. Brauman, a physician, was president of Doctors Without Borders from 1982 to 1994. This conversation,…

Safety in Numbers

by Gary Greenberg,

The mathematics of predicting war

Hitler and Other Syria-debate Low Points

by John R. MacArthur, on September 12, 2013

When the facts won’t convince the public to march into battle, politicians ramp up the rhetoric

The Party of Wilson, Wiretaps, and War

by John R. MacArthur, on July 18, 2013

On the problems with Democratic interventions

In matters of foreign policy, Congress, and especially the Senate, was designed as a hedge against the abuses exhibited by European monarchs who for centuries had whimsically entangled their countries…

Conjectural damage

by Daniel Swift,

A history of bombing

Known Knowns

Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya,

From a May 10, 1988, letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to all Party members. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan began…

Jesus Killed Mohammed

by Jeff Sharlet,

The crusade for a Christian military

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