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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #46B: Military
Backers |
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Military Periscope
(online source for military news, weapons, and nations' armed forces
worldwide) |
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The United States Army Homepage |
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Military Weapons, Defense, Aerospace News
& Intelligence (Janes' website homepage) |
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Military Science Related
Websites (links to hundreds of sites) |
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Military Training
Technology (online magazine) |
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US Army Training &
Doctrine Command |
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Today's Military:
Military Careers |
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Canadians for Military Preparedness |
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USA
Patriotism: Military and Veteran Sites |
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Center for the Study of Professional
Military Ethics |
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Costs of War Project (from
Brown University / Watson Institute for International Studies) |
| Just
War Theory (website devoted to philosophical study of warfare) |
| Just and Unjust Wars, by Michael Walzer
(read excerpts of this 2000 book at Google Books) |
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Blood
Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by
B. Ehrenreich (read excerpts at Google Books) |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy
Soldier by Ishamel Beah (more about this 2007 book) |
| Links
to Department of Defense and Military Electronic Journals |
| Center for
Defense Information (a non-profit, independent monitor of the
military) |
| The
Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by
Chalmers Johnson |
| The
Technological Fix: Weapons and the Cost of War, by Alex Roland (a
1995 presentation to Army War College) |
| National
Missile Defense: The Technological Fix, by Lawrence Badash (2000
article by UCSB professor) |
| Links
to Military History |
| US
Coast Guard: National Security and Military Preparedness: A Historical
Bibliography |
| Stars
and Stripes ("the independent news source for the US
military") |
| Battleland--Military
Intelligence Related Blogs (on Time magazine website) |
| America’s
military supremacy is in jeopardy (from The Economist February
15 2025)
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| Why
War? by Richard Overy book review (review by James Holland for The
Telegraph June 5 2024) |
| Nuclear
War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen (book review by Lawrence Friedman
posted on Foreign Affairs April
23 2024) |
| Ukraine
Fights to Widen Its Puncture of Russian Front Lines by Daniel Michaels
(story from The Wall Street Journal September 1 2023)
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| Battlefield
Lessons--The Future of War (special report from The Economist
July 8 2023) |
| Battlefield
Ingenuity (from war in Ukraine in The Economist May 13 2023) |
| "The Bizarre Mystery of the Only Armed Nuke America Ever Lost"
by Matthew Gault (on Vice, August 29 2022) |
| Why
We Fight by Christopher Blattman
(on origins of war, book review from The Economist April 23
2022) |
| Russia
and Africa--Mercenaries (report from The Economist January 15
2022) |
| Autonomous
Weapons: Fail Deadly (report from The Economist May 29 2021) |
| Women
in War (report about female soldiers from The Economist
April 24 2021) |
| Nuclear
Folly by Serhii Plokhy (review of book about Cuban missile crisis in The
Economist April 17 2021)
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| "Military
strategy: what motivates the dogs of war?"
(report about predicting the will to fight from The Economist
September 5 2020) |
| “Wars
in Africa: Are Mercenaries No Longer Taboo?” (report from The
Economist May 30 2020) |
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| War
in Space: Using the Force (article in The Economist July 26 2019) |
| “The
Global Arms Trade: Masters of War” (from The Economist August
18 2018)
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| "How
America is Failing its Most Elite Fighters" by W.J. Hennigan (Time
cover story Dec 11 2017) |
| "Military
Robots: Bot Flies" (report from The Economist Dec 16 2017) |
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| “Men
of War” Salafi--Jihadism: The History of an Idea by Shiraz Maher
(book review from The Economist October 22 2016) |
| Eye
in the Sky movie review by Peter Travers (Mar 2016 Rolling
Stone review of emotionally charged movie re: the moral debate behind
drone warfare) |
| Warriors
Inc (website of filmmaker
with mission “to change how American civilians view
the common grunt.”)
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" American
Sniper" 2014 biographical war film drama based on book by
Chris Kyle (online encyclopedia article)
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| "The
Pentagon Paid Millions to Pro Sports Teams for Military Tributes" (Nov
2015 news report from The Fiscal Times) |
| "The
New Nuclear Age" (commentary from The Economist March 7
2015) |
| "Security:
Return of the Hired Gun" ("how private armies will
remake modern warfare" from The Economist Jan 10 2015) |
| "Weapons
Makers: The Case for Defense" (article from The Economist
July 19, 2014) |
| "Civil Wars: How to Stop
the Fighting, Sometimes" (article in The Economist Nov 9 2013) |
| "Nuclear Weapons: Start Worrying"
(based on book review of Command and Control by Eric Schlosser in The Economist Sep 28 2013) |
| "A
New Theory of PTSD and Veterans: Moral Injury" by Tony Dokoupil
(Dec 3 2012 article on The Daily Beast) |
| "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Death from Afar"
(article from The Economist Nov 3 2012) |
| "Army
Suicides: The Most Alarming and Tragically Hidden Secret in America" (summer
2012 article post on policymic) |
| "China's
Military Rise: The Dragon's New Teeth" (from The Economist
April 7 2012 issue) |
| "An
Army Apart--The Widening Military-Civilian Gap" by Mark Thompson (Time
Nov 21 2011 cover story) |
| "The Next War Will be Digitized" by
J. Fallows (Idea #9 in Biggest Ideas of Year in The Atlantic July 2011) |
| "The
F-35: A Weapon That Costs More than Australia" by D. Tierney
(March 2011 article in The Atlantic) |
| How
We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War by D.
Tierney (more on 2010 book) |
| "Why Our Best Officers are Leaving"
by Tim Kane (article in Jan/Feb 2011 issue of The Atlantic) |
| The
Secret World of Extreme Militias by Barton Gellman ( Time Oct
11 2010 cover story) |
| "All
War is Local" by Brian Mockenhaupt (article in Oct 2010 issue of The
Atlantic) |
| "Our
American Heroes" by William Astore (July 2010 essay arguing
military service does not equal heroism) |
| "How
We Fail Our Female Vets" by Laura Fitzpatrick (in Time
July 12 2010) |
| "How
One Army Town Copes With Post Traumatic Stress," by Tim McGirk
(in Time November 30, 2009) |
| "The
Dark Side of Recruiting," by Mark Thompson (in Time April
13 2009) |
| "America's
Medicated Army," by Mark Thompson (cover story, Time June
16, 2008) |
| "Taking
Care of Our Vets," by Nancy Gibbs (in Time May 25, 2008) |
| "Dying
Under the Army's Care," by Mark Thompson (in Time February
25 2008) |
| "America's
Broken Down Army," by Mark Thompson (cover story, Time April
16, 2007) |
| "News
Scan: nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan could harm ozone layer"
(June, 2008 news item) |
| quotes
related to patriotism |
| quotes
related to war |