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I looked up to see a line of 50 kids in uniform boarding the plane. Every one of them had brown skin like mine.

Sergeant First Class Kate Cole isn’t an activist. She isn’t a radical. She’s a trans woman, a rock climber, and my friend—and after 17 years of military service, Trump kicked her out.

Thomas Ricks analyzes the civil rights movement in military terms.

Andrew Bacevich and Samuel Moyn each seek a reckoning on how the United States uses its military abroad.

How could a Buddhist country have one of the worst human rights records in the world?

Kurt Piehler reconstructs the lived religious experience of the World War II battlefield.

It’s climate change.

Nancy Sherman's message is clear: society must understand the totality of human experiences of war, including their moral dimensions.

The sequester cut defense spending—to 2006 levels. The U.S. will continue to spend as much on defense as the next 13 countries combined.

A recent episode of PBS’s American Experience explored how the massive number of deaths in the Civil War sent the nation into shock. The catastrophe—750,000 dead—was equivalent to the U.S. suffering 7 million deaths today. Besides evoking this ghastly experience, Ric Burns’s film Death and the Civil War (reviewed here in the New York Times), which is based on Drew Gilpin’s book The Republic of Suffering, offers a fascinating perspective on current political debates over the size and scope of the federal government.

Mike is a veteran who attended college on the new GI Bill. When he walked into my office, I knew something was wrong.

Karl Marlantes's new book is not fiction, but it develops the idea of his novel Matterhorn: that war provides a
sense of transcendence that can be found nowhere else.