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Fighting With Numbers
Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over...
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Apr 26, 20233 min read


You Can’t Sit With Us
It would take Russian forces 60 hours to reach all three Baltic capitals. In less than three days, NATO members Latvia, Lithuania, and...
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Apr 23, 20235 min read


Bombshells and Bikinis
A woman poses seductively on the nose of a B-29A bomber, aptly named “Raz’n Hell.” She appears ready for action, bust accentuated as she...
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Mar 25, 20235 min read
Revisiting Pumpkins in Ukraine Amidst a Gruesome War
One year ago, I wrote an article about the history, culture, and economic potential of pumpkin cultivation in Ukraine. At the time, my...
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Feb 15, 20235 min read


War for Profit: The Problematic Ties between Congresspeople and the Defense Industry
The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine is a tragedy that has killed thousands, displaced millions, and sent ripple effects through...
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May 26, 20225 min read


Ukrainian Sacrifice and the American Glorification of War Death
Social media and online news have been flooded with tragic images of carnage, destruction, and human suffering in the short time since...
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May 3, 20224 min read


The Good Fight: The same motivations that drive war are bringing peace to Dagestan
Khabib Nurmagomedov has wrestled and defeated his fair share of bears since his first ursine tussle at age nine. It’s not particularly...
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Jun 30, 20213 min read


The American Culture of Violence
Military potency is synonymous for a nation’s power within the global sphere, in most modern societies today. The United States has...
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May 22, 20174 min read


India and Pakistan: Second Cold War, Third World War?
On September 17th, the latent tension between South Asian heavyweights India and Pakistan escalated into overt hostility after an attack...
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Nov 12, 20166 min read


War Photography: A Mirror or a Window?
On August 17, Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old Syrian boy, narrowly survived a Bashar al-Assad-backed airstrike in Aleppo. Overnight, a...
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Oct 13, 20165 min read


Major Laser: Investigating lasers’ potential in the US military
Characterized by descriptions of flying cars and climate-controlled cities, most 20th century predictions about the modern world seem...
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Mar 16, 20165 min read


Keeping the Peace After Dayton
It was late November at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and...
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Nov 21, 20156 min read


Establishing Peace in Myanmar
In what is considered one of the world’s longest civil wars, Myanmar may finally be able to turn a page on the ethnic conflict which has...
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Nov 6, 20156 min read


Battles Beneath the Surface
From the Alamo to Gettysburg, the battlefields of the United States’ many wars are commonplace across the country. Whether big or small,...
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Apr 8, 20155 min read


The Taboo Of War: Is Germany Scared of Guns?
“War” is a loaded term in Germany. It comes as no surprise, then, that ever since the end of World War II, German voters have been...
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Mar 3, 20154 min read


The Politicization of War Films
Movies about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are scarce when compared to the volume of World War I and II and Vietnam-era films. The ones...
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Feb 23, 20154 min read


Veterans Post Conflict
As the United States’ military involvement in Afghanistan and, to some extent, Iraq comes to an end, a new dynamic is forming between...
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Nov 16, 20144 min read


The Next ISIS Moment: Afghanistan’s Impending Catastrophe
The Kashmir musk deer is a curious creature. Unlike its American brethren, it’s endangered, elusive and adorned with fangs. Scientists...
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Nov 10, 20145 min read


Politics Against Humanity
The Syrian civil war has been marked by crimes against humanity so undeniable that they could have leapt into existence from a textbook,...
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Oct 22, 20147 min read


The Mexican Drug War After “El Chapo”
The news of the arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — the most wanted drug lord in the world — has been received by many as a crucial...
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Mar 4, 20144 min read
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