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Bardish Birthday: Shakespeare Around The Globe

By Christa Blackmon

In Culture

On April 23, 2018

Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare’s 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all, has been dead some 402 years but he is still very much alive in modern theatre. In honour of his thriving legacy, let me offer you a round-up of some the more innovative […]

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Vixens Engaging with Nymphomaniacs to Un-eroticize Stuff.

By Christa Blackmon

On March 25, 2018

I told you all about my essay on alien sexuality in fiction appearing in the debut issue of a new feminist punk-rock magazine a few weeks ago. This is the second of my previews of this issue of VENUSz

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Counting Bodies (Or How To Effortlessly Minimize Civilian Casualties)

By Christa Blackmon

On April 22, 2017

Twitter compatriot and fellow foreign policy female Sarah Shoker was kind enough to join in to my discussion of civilian casualties from American airstrikes. Sarah is a doctoral candidate in the Depa

Media and the MOAB Strike Aftermath, Updated

By Christa Blackmon

In General

On April 20, 2017

A few days ago I wrote about the conspicuous absence of any news reports of the aftermath of the MOAB strike in Afghanistan. The point of my post was not to declare there had or hadn’t been civilian casualties or civilian collateral damage in the area that was bombed, but simply to say that […]

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Keeping The Mother Of All Bombs At A Distance

By Christa Blackmon

On April 17, 2017

“…a lovely, bloodless, corpseless war, just the sort the politicians love.” David Hackworth (1) If images of war set the tone for public support, then the best images are the ones th

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Afghanistan: Another Nation That Should Be Grateful to the West

By Erik Loomis

On October 3, 2015

Cass Sunstein is right once again. The West brings nothing but gifts wherever it goes, totally eliminating any claims from those nations for justice. And what nation has received more of these gifts t

Drink Up and Be Somebody

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 6, 2015

If the writers of LGM ever got together in the same place, I believe the alcohol consumption would look something like Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan: As it should now be clear to you, dear reader, Soviet soldiers were not that discriminating when sourcing their sauce. When I was interviewing veterans of the Soviet–Afghan War for […]

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Soviet Soldier in Afghanistan

By Robert Farley

On March 6, 2013

I went on HuffPo live to talk about this story: A former Soviet soldier has been discovered hiding in Afghanistan under an assumed identity 33 years after going missing. Bakhretdin Khakimov disappeare

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Airpower in Afghanistan

By Robert Farley

On February 20, 2013

My latest at the Diplomat concerns Karzai’s limitations on the use of coalition airpower in support of ANA operations: Given that Afghan Army ground forces have yet to demonstrate a clear advant

Exercises and Borders

By Robert Farley

In Robert Farley

On August 8, 2012

I have two largely unrelated pieces that both involve China. First, in the Diplomat: As a regularly scheduled biennial exercise, RIMPAC happens regardless of the extant political situation in the Pacific. However, the absence of the People’s Liberation Army Navy – and the participation of Russia and India for the first time – combined with […]

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F-35 and What Not

By Robert Farley

On April 19, 2012

I talked Afghanistan and naval procurement policy with Alyona last night. The latter starts around 5:35. And if you listen closely around the 4:30 mark you can hear my daughters screaming at each othe

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Statebuilding and its Discontents

By Robert Farley

On March 14, 2012

Josh Foust and I discuss the recent massacre in Afghanistan:

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