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The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
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The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
Elisabeth Eaves Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Feb 2021 35min Permalink
The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2021 50min Permalink
A U.S.-backed militia that kills children may be America’s exit strategy from its longest war.
Andrew Quilty The Intercept Dec 2020 40min Permalink
On revisionist architecture.
Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?
Jack Hitt Virginia Quarterly Review Sep 2020 30min Permalink
Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?
Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 35min Permalink
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
Dan Baum New Yorker Aug 2004 30min Permalink
In November 2019, James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, fell to his death in Istanbul. What led an internationally celebrated humanitarian to take his own life?
Martin Chulov Guardian Oct 2020 25min Permalink
Is Russia behind a secret weapon that’s targeted dozens of American diplomats and spies?
Julia Ioffe GQ Oct 2020 20min Permalink
The history of civilian internment camps.
Andrea Pitzer Lapham's Quarterly Dec 2014 15min Permalink
In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians.
To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of justice.
Nathaniel Penn California Sunday Sep 2020 1h20min Permalink
Right-wing militias brace for civil conflict.
Mike Giglio The Atlantic Sep 2020 30min Permalink
The author visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum, 13 years after his sister’s death.
Steve Kandell Buzzfeed May 2014 10min Permalink
Inside Trump’s battles with U.S. intelligence agencies.
Robert Draper The New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.
Petra Bartosiewicz Harper's Aug 2011 30min Permalink
The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.
ANNIE HYLTON Harper's Jul 2020 30min Permalink
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Jun 2020 15min Permalink
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Jul 2020 30min Permalink
A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.
Geoff Ziezulewicz Military Times Jun 2020 30min Permalink
A non-fiction comic on the evolution of military and civilian style amid the ‘forever war.’
Nate Powell Popula Jun 2020 Permalink
An American mercenary, who did security for Trump rallies, attempts a amphibious coup along the Venezuelan border.
Giancarlo Fiorella Bellingcat May 2020 Permalink
A hundred and fifty years ago, slightly more, a strange notion: the dead could be counted. In the Civil War, in the lush fields of the South, Americans first, as a culture, began to imagine death in numbers. Rosters of soldiers, as well as lists of war casualties, were not common practice in the mid-nineteenth century. Many officials feared responsibility for the dead by numbering or naming them, and military leaders felt an accurate count might embolden their enemies.
Shannon Pufahl NY Review of Books Apr 2020 10min Permalink
A Ranger graduate breaks down an ordeal that shapes some of the nation’s finest soldiers.
Will Bardenwerper Outside Apr 2020 30min Permalink
In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.
Lyra McKee The Irish Times Mar 2020 15min Permalink
The author and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Then Kamaran was captured by ISIS.
Sebastian Meyer Guernica Mar 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of Erik Prince, then the CEO of America’s largest and most controversial mercenary force, Blackwater, who happened to be a C.I.A. agent.
Adam Ciralsky Vanity Fair Jan 2010 25min Permalink