Warfare

Read With Us: 'What It Is Like To Go To War'

Posted 04.11.2012

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Here's the team who will be blogging about the book: Andrew Losowsky, Books Editor Annemarie Dooling, Community Editor Zoë Triska, Associate Boo...

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Napoleonic War Versus the Afghanistan Grind

William Dietrich | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Warfare, Afghanistan, Napoleon, Robert Bales, Books News
William Dietrich

One of the challenges when writing historical fiction is imagining physical and social conditions very different than our own. My Ethan Gage novels take place during the Napoleonic Wars. Did combat of that time produce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

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Where Are Women's Voices Against War?

Michele Willens | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Serial Killer, Warfare, Sebastian Junger, War, Justin Timberlake, Women and War, Los Angeles, Jessica Biel, Women News
Michele Willens

Why aren't women, in particular, more vocal about ending warfare?

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Friday Talking Points -- Class Warfare? Hardly.

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.23.2011

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Chris Weigant

As was entirely predictable, once Obama stood up for taxing the rich folk a wee bit more, the Republicans fired back with what they think is the biggest weapon in their arsenal: screaming "Class warfare!"

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Tom Zeller Jr.

Does Climate Drive Warfare? A New Study Suggests There's No Question

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Warfare, Civil War, Conflict, Columbia University Earth Institute, All Terrain, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

At the outset of his new book, "Tropic of Chaos" author Christian Parenti suggests that the violent death of Kenyan farmer Ekaru Loruman -- and perhap...

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Stop GOP Push for Perpetual Warfare

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Democrat, Congress, Warfare, National Defense Authorization Act, President Barack Obama, President Obama, War, Democrats, Constitution, Afghanistan War, Congressional Authority, Politics News
Rep. Charles Rangel

I absolutely condemn the provision added in the defense authorization bill that essentially allows the president to declare war against anyone, anytime and anywhere.

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The Flexibility of Conventional Warfare

Adam Elkus | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Libya, Warfare, Moammar Gaddafi, Military Operations, World War II, World War I, World News
Adam Elkus

There are basically two "ideal" types of military operations -- irregular warfare fought by guerrillas and terrorists on the small-unit level and regu...

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Chinese Missiles and U.S. Loss of Influence in Asia -- Round II

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taiwan, Warfare, Chinese Military, Missile Defense, United States Navy, China, War, World News
Franz-Stefan Gady

Revisiting my previous post "Aircraft Carriers and Chinese Missiles: Time to Rethink US Naval Doctrine" , I would like to approach the issue from a di...

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Video Of A Foreign Correspondent's Decade By The Director Of 'Restrepo'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, Warfare, Tim Hetherington Diary, Tim Hetherington, Afghan War, Vanity Fair, Diary, New York, War Reporting, Afghanistan War, Video, World News

It's a rare filmmaker who could juxtapose festive fireworks with brutal gunfire and transition from the inside of a New York coffee shop to a huddle o...

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America, Inc.: How to Take the Country Back from Corporate Control

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philadelphia, Ecuador, Warfare, Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Health, Dow Chemical, Nature, Environment, Citizens United, People's Agreement on Climate Change, United Declaration, Politics News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

After the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, I began to envision a new American flag -- one with the stars replaced by the corporations that call the shots.

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Journalism Is Not an Attack, Wikileaks Is Not Warfare

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guardian, Bob Morris, Antiwar, Whistleblower, Der Speigel, Anarchism, Terrorism, War, Propaganda, Violence, Transparency, Free Speech, Bradley Manning, Dissent, Wikileaks, Journalism, Warfare, Human Rights, Self Defense, Julian Assange, Insurgents, Accountability, Censorship, Media News
Josh Mull

If you support Wikileaks, if you support transparency, accountability, or even just basic free speech, you should not be playing into the government's semantic game that presents itself as a victim, and Wikileaks as an attacker.

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How Railways Made Large-Scale War Possible

Christian Wolmar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Second World War, Warfare, World War 2, World War I, Railroads, Railways, World War Two, War, Trains, World War II, Train, Afghanistan War, Books News
Christian Wolmar

Railways changed the nature of warfare, and created the potential for prolonged and mass scale warfare.

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The Hidden Costs of Warfare and the Prophet Jeremiah

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warfare, Casualties, Politics News
Gary Hart

Why cannot political leaders level with the American people on the costs of warfare? It is obvious if they did so, the appetite for voluntary invasions especially would be greatly diminished.

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Google and the Napoleonic Model: Business in Revolutionary Times

Robert Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Greene, Google, Globalization, Napoleon, Strategy, Sergey Brin, Warfare, Larry Page, Power, Zara, Business News
Robert Greene

Google's culture is focused on the idea that the company is the spearhead of a revolution. This sense of being part of a cause created an extremely motivated workforce, which allows Google to practice a kind of maneuver warfare.

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Always Breaking News: Chimps Rape and Pillage! So What?

Christopher Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nicolas Wade, Warfare, Rape, Bonobo, Incest, Chimp War, Infanticide, Masturbation, Murder, Homosexuality, Bonobos, Orgy, Chimps, Chimpanzee, Primates, New York Times, Evolution, Kibale, Media News
Christopher Ryan

When a group of bonobos encounters another group, an orgy may well break out, but not a battle.

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Military Drones and the Ethics of Warfare

Laura Colarusso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Stanley McChrystal, Warfare, Department of Defense, Drones, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Foreign Policy, World News
Laura Colarusso

There will come a time, military experts say, when it's technically feasible for a drone aircraft to take off from an air base without being flown by an operator sitting at the controls.

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Warfare Over Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Iraq War, Warfare, Health Care Debate, F-22 Jet Fighter, Senate Finance Committee, Afghanistan, President Barack Obama, Military Spending, Imperialism, Pentagon Budget, Empire, Health Care, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Senators are wrestling with saving a penny here and a penny there when they're aimed at bolstering people's health, but they believe the sky is the limit so long as the money is being funneled into foreign occupations.

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I'm Sick of Hearing About the Poor, Poor Millionaires

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warfare, Wealthy, Tax Rates, Al Franken, Reform, Tax the Rich, Media, Jim Webb, Republican, Reagan, Pelosi, Ultra Rich, Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Ultra Wealthy, Health Care, Robert a Heinlein, Taxes, House, Millionaires, Msm, Franken, War, Democrat, Billionaires, Rich, Webb, Democrats, Mainstream Media, Income Tax, Tax, Chris Weigant, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Class Warfare, Denmark, Healthcare, Heinlein, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Democrats have to get over their knee-jerk reaction to being labeled "tax and spenders" by their opposition. If higher taxes for millionaires are the way to pay for healthcare reform, then let everyone know it, and know why.

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Happy Doomsday to You!

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military, Apocalypse, Armageddon, Environment, Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Future, Peace, Global Warming, Civilization, Warfare, Water, Food, Sustainability, Technology, Natural Resources, Growth, Green News
Randall Amster

Yes, it's the end of the world as we know it ... and it really is all fine.

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Must Plane Food be Plain Food?

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Food, Airplanes, Warfare, Ethnic, Stinks, Ufo, Airlines, Terrorism, Takeout, Healthy Living News
Robert Rosenthal

Planes these days stink. They never smelled too good to begin with, but now it's worse now than ever -- by virtually eliminating food on flights, airlines have created ethnic food warfare at 36,000 feet.

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It's Obama's War Now

Michael Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collateral-Damage, Torture, Iraq War, Warfare, Afghanistan, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Obama Iraq, Iraq, World News
Michael Schwartz

As horrible as the Afghanistan war already is, the ascension of McChrystal signals a new level of carnage -- and the economic and social immiseration of the hundreds of thousands who survive the onslaught.

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Navy Seal Sharpshooters Can't End the Somali Crisis

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warfare, Somali Pirates, Poverty, Navy Seals, President Obama, Non Government Organizations, Sharpshooters, High Seas Gangsterism, Somalia, Un, Robert Gates, Kenya, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama's tough talk to frontally combat piracy is welcome. But the far bigger problem remains the never ending crisis of a broken nation that pushes thousands of men to high sea gangsterism.

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The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drugs, Mexican Drug Cartel, Osama Bin Laden Capture, War on Terrorism, Ronald Reagan, War on Terror, Osama Bin Laden, Global Contingency Operations, Civil Rights Legislation, U.S., American Democracy, War on Terror Oxymoron, World, World News, Politics News, Arabs, Middle East, Homeland Security Secretary, Subnational Groups, Terrorists, Overseas Contigency Operations, Terror, The Homeland, Clandestine Agents Obama Administration, African Americans, Mexico's Drug War, Obama 44, Homeland Security, Politics, Man Caused Disasters, Mexico, Bush 43, U.S. International Law, America's Psyche, Republican Clerics, Barack Obama, Warfare, War on Poverty, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Central Command, Muslims, Racial Profiling, Lyndon B. Johnson, Janet Napolitano, Republicans, War on Drugs, Poverty, Patriotism, Nationalism, World News
Yvonne R. Davis

President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

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Palin is McCain's Weapon of Mass Distraction

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Annapolis, Tactics, Warfare, John McCain, Iraq, Republicans, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Speech Reactions, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Diane Francis

McCain has unleashed a number of diversionary tactics, including his good-looking VP running mate. These diversions are designed to confuse and mislead the enemy.

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