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Nearly all new US weapons systems have ‘critical’ cybersecurity problems, auditors say
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To heil, or not to heil, when traveling in the Third Reich
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The US Navy’s terrible accident record is now hidden from public view
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Reckless campaign of cyber attacks by Russian military intelligence service exposed
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The Army may have found its next rifle in a Colorado garage
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Shockwaves from WWII bombing raids reached the edge of space
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How salt helped win the American Civil War
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Cleopatra and the Siege of Alexandria (48 to 47 B.C.E.)
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Thirty-five years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war
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BBC investigation of Cameroon killings
@bbcafrica: THREAD In July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. 2 women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers. They are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. #BBCAfricaEye investigated this atrocity. This is what we found...
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Veterans Affairs cuts benefits to jailed relatives, but won't say if Garnier affected
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Those who can't forget: Portraits of nine families whose lives are tied to Arlington National Cemetery's Section 60, the final resting place of loved ones they lost in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Philadelphia threw a WWI parade that gave thousands of onlookers the flu
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Military to reopen 23 ‘unfounded’ sexual assault cases but dozens remain without clear path forward
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A breakthrough for US troops: Combat-ready pizza
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Israel Is Giving China the Keys to Its Largest Port – and the U.S. Navy May Abandon Israel
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Turkey warns Russia an attack on Idlib will turn it into ‘lake of blood’
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Aggrieved Kurdish fighters quietly join Syrian regime side in battle for Idlib
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A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did
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WW2 Eastern Front animated: 1942
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Bed sores, neglect, alleged abuse: Inside one of the lowest-rated veterans' nursing homes in the country
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Russia says biggest war games since Cold War are 'justified'
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Donald Trump aide connected to 2006 overseas attack on US Marines
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How the US is preparing to match Chinese and Russian technology development
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After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
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Trump Is Not a King - A group of top former intelligence and military leaders are sending a message to the nation’s troops and spies: think twice before following the president’s orders in a crisis.
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Pentagon says it's postponing US President Donald Trump's military parade
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US to more than double the number of Marines in Norway, strengthening defenses along the border with Russia
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The cautious path to strategic advantage: How militaries should plan for AI
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Niger suppresses dissent as US leads influx of foreign armies. The western presence in one of the most militarised countries in Africa has sparked frustration and fear in locals.
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Secret Israeli report reveals armed drone killed four boys playing on Gaza beach in 2014
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The logistics behind transporting a billion-dollar satellite on the Air Force's largest cargo plane
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"Suicidal" airline employee stole an empty turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound
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US officials scrambled behind the scenes to shield NATO deal from Trump
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Dozens dead in Yemen as bus carrying children hit by airstrike
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Israel and Hamas exchange fire in sudden Gaza escalation
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Russia is quietly seizing territory in Georgia as it warns of a ‘horrible conflict’ if the Eurasian country joins NATO
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Marine kicked out of Marine Corps for role in Charlottesville white supremacist march
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The rise of Rome - How Italy was conquered
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The fall of Pompey (48 B.C.E.)
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Pakistan's sham election - How the army chose Imran Khan
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Veterans speak out against the militarization of sports
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When a US citizen heard he was on his own country's drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution
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What, if anything, makes a morally good war?
I've been consuming the darkness that is wartime histories from the past three or four centuries and I feel like I've encountered a lot of people who had what they believed to be justifiable...
I've been consuming the darkness that is wartime histories from the past three or four centuries and I feel like I've encountered a lot of people who had what they believed to be justifiable reasons to launch wars against other powers. There are people who thought they had divine right to a particular position of power and so would launch a war to assert that god-given right. There are people who believed in a citizen's right to have some (any) say in how their tax money gets used in government and so would fight wars over that. People would fight wars to, as John Cleese once said, "Keep China British." Many wars are started to save the honor of a country/nation. Some are started in what is claimed to be self-defense and later turns out to have been a political play instigated to end what has been a political thorn in their sides.
In all this time, I've struggled to really justify many of these wars, but some of that comes with the knowledge of what other wars have cost in terms of human carnage and suffering. For some societies in some periods, the military is one of the few vehicles to social mobility (and I think tend to think social mobility is grease that keeps a society functioning). Often these conflicts come down to one man's penis and the inability to swallow their pride to find a workable solution unless at the end of a bayonet. These conflicts also come with the winning powers taking the opportunity to rid themselves of political threats and exacting new harms on the defeated powers (which comes back around again the next time people see each other in a conflict).
So help keep me from embracing a totally pacifistic approach to war. When is a war justifiable? When it is not only morally acceptable but a moral imperative to go to war? Please point to examples throughout history where these situations have happened, if you can (though if you're prepared to admit that there has been no justifiable war that you're aware of, I suppose that's fine if bitter).
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Beijing hits out at Washington for ‘playing Taiwan card’ after US warships sail through strait
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Worried NATO partners wonder if Atlantic alliance can survive Trump. Europeans hope the president who disparages allies and praises autocrats is an aberration but fear problems may run deeper
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Australia to spend nearly $7 billion buying unmanned military planes from America
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Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath
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The fallen of World War II
7 votes