Jailed Ex-Army Officer Has Support, but Not From His Platoon
Nearly two dozen soldiers from an Army platoon were on patrol in a dangerous valley in southern Afghanistan when a motorcycle sped toward them, ignoring commands to stop. As he…
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Israeli Supreme Court rejects appeal in Rachel Corrie case
Her parents filed suit against Israel’s Ministry of Defense in a quest for accountability and sought just $1 in damages. Previously, a judge ruled that the family has no right…
Jim Crow Lynchings More Widespread Than First Thought, Report Concludes
In 1919, a black soldier returned home to Blakely, Georgia, having survived the horrors of the first world war only to face the terrors of a white mob that awaited…
A sniper’s view: ‘When you are bred to kill, you know’
Smith was only 20 when he was assigned to the sniper section of a mortar platoon at the height of the Iraq war. When I met him there in early…
Minister: Knife attack suspect known to French intelligence
A man arrested after a knife attack on two soldiers on the streets of Nice in southern France was already known to intelligence services as having been radicalized, French Interior…
Leaders Mark Auschwitz Liberation 70 Years On Without Putin
When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small and hungry 11-year-old girl into…
What people get wrong about ‘American Sniper’
To some on the left, it glorifies an unjust war while paying homage to an unapologetic killer with a simplistic, good-versus-evil view of the world. Which is closer to the…