A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask flashing a victory sign in Beirut in November 2019.
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Wars don’t produce winners and losers – they never really did.
Cyber attacks aren’t warfare.
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Treating non-violent cyber attacks as warfare could lead to unnecessary escalation.
Shaldene Prins is supported by a policewoman at the funeral of her husband who was killed during gang violence.
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The biggest problem with using the military to fight rime is that soldiers are not trained for law enforcement, but warfare, using maximum force.
Iranian officials show off the U.S. drone they shot out of the sky.
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Trump announced ‘hard-hitting’ new sanctions on Iran in response to the attack on a US drone. A peace studies scholar explains why sanctions rarely work.
Police officers loyal to the Houthi rebels march during a military parade in Sanaa, Yemen in July 2017. The placards read: ‘Allah is the greatest. Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews, victory to Islam.’
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Political fallout from the Vietnam War gave Congress more power to control foreign affairs, but they have been reluctant to use it.
Moral injury was also found to be one of the greatest challenges faced by UK journalists covering the 2015 refugee crisis.
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A recent review found moral injury was experienced by a wide range of people in different professions, including journalists, police, teachers and soldiers.
Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Two Warriors Heads for the Battle of Anghiari, c. 1504-5. Black chalk or charcoal, some traces of red chalk on paper. Google Art Project.
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Leonardo’s professional life reveals his genius for creating technologies of destruction.
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Science fiction has made us vigilant of ‘killer robots’ in our midst, but they’re far closer than many of us realise.
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Human conflict can bring isolation to environments, which helps the local ecology thrive. After the war has ended, the return of nature is a poignant memorial and symbol of peace.
Unleashing hell.
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Scientists studying the atmosphere found help in an unlikely place – the aerial bombing campaigns of World War Two.
Achilles mourning the death of his nephew Patroclus.
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PTSD is a relatively modern term, but the symptoms are as old as civilisation itself.
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Men have come to dominate military combat but new evidence suggests this might be more an accident than an inevitability of evolution.
The US wants a ‘Space Force’ to be the sixth branch of the US military.
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Those who speak of the inevitability of war in space will fuel a race to the bottom, and see even more energy towards an arms race in space.
Too close for comfort?
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The last thing the Middle East needs is another open conflict between two massive military powers. Fortunately, they both seem to agree.
Israeli military personnel practicing their response to a chemical weapons attack.
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A decades-long policy of ambiguity means that Israel’s chemical arsenal remains the subject of speculation.
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To understand how a new world war might play out, it’s important to remember just how powerful the US really is.
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Guns for hire are back in business – and they’re making war even more dangerous.
Students were forced to move away from a region taken by the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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Not all rebel armies use rape and sexual violence as a weapon. Some have actually designed ways to prevent such atrocities. How and what can we learn from them?
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Coalition forces are careful about how they report civilian deaths. And we think war is painless, as a result.
Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Whether as soldiers, suicide bombers or human shields, children are an increasingly common sight on the battlefield.