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Short story:

‘The War Artist’ by Margaret Luongo

‘For the men fighting in the Korengal Valley, war is something formless and intermolecular, an airborne toxin as euphoric as it is lethal.’

Probably the Hash Monster

Podcast:

Chase Madar on the Violation of the Laws of War

‘Napoleon showed very little understanding of Spain. Of all his mistakes, the greatest was arguably his view that armies should live off the land…’

Shooting Gallery

The Decisive Ones

‘Although the duration of Colombia’s war defies explanation, one cynical factor cannot be ignored: until it hit the wealthy and the middle class, it didn’t matter’

‘Ulysses and The Waste Land were instant classics, yet The Cantos have remained an outlier…’

Historical Inevitability in Afghanistan

Ecology of fear: The ongoing war between humans and wolves

Ecology of fear: The ongoing war between humans and wolves

That’s Militainment!

(Slideshow: War Games)

(Read ‘Leviathan’ by Thomas Hobbes)

‘As part of a modern all-volunteer force, today’s soldier-writers explore the timeless theme of the futility of war – but wars that they for the most part support’

Photo essay:

The Shooting War

Chris Hedges: The pictures of war you aren’t supposed to see

(See excerpts of ‘Afterwar: veterans from a world in conflict’ by Lori Grinker)

‘The conundrum for the producers of war-based video games is a delicate one: how to craft and market a war game in an era when public opinion has turned against war as a paradigm?’

Lions led by donkeys along a ‘learning curve’ of carnage