The protests did not stop the allied war effort in Iraq; those in Russia will not end the invasion of Ukraine. But both mobilizations imply an attitude about the relationship of citizens to the military: namely, that there is one.
Let’s start with a glorious death. Imagine a young, idealistic Englishman leaving for war in December of 1916, telling his mother, “There is a fine […]
Reader, I have a problem: I seem to be stuck on a novel that makes me feel bad about myself. The novel in question is The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.
There is no official criterion for being an orphan, but I didn’t know that when I decided I wasn’t one.
Grammatically, readiness seems to demand a direct object; what exactly are we getting ready for?
A week or so after I arrived at West Point, I opened my car door onto a naked corpse.
The question of who fights, perhaps the most important one of all in a democracy, elicits only occasional comment.
Fascination with the relationship between knowledge and power never dies.
I’m running on a track built into Commo Hill and I’m trying to concentrate on my breathing.
The conventional soft-focus Hallmark-card reverence ignores the military’s historical injustices and present-day waste. But the progressive left isn’t right, either.
What I’d really like to do is skip over the statistics-stuffed task of proving that the military-industrial complex is what the military is for.
We sent around a questionnaire asking veterans to reflect on their time in the military: what it meant to them, how it changed them and what they would want civilians to know about it.
Edward Luttwak is a military historian, defense consultant and geopolitical grand strategist who has advised world leaders on security and strategy. The author of more […]
Iraq war veteran Shoshana Johnson entered the public eye when her unit was ambushed in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on March 23, 2003.
We sent around a questionnaire asking veterans to reflect on their time in the military: what it meant to them, how it changed them and what they would want civilians to know about it.
Some elections are determined by a kingmaker, others are defined by the appearance of a troublemaker. The 2022 presidential election in France falls into the second category.
Why were Europeans so sure of their exemplary humanity? Where are we now, and what might the future look like?
In the late Nineties I was an undergraduate studying philosophy, one of the only women majors in a department filled with young men eager to prove themselves to the professors, the vast majority of whom were also men.
