In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically... →
Jean-Claude Juncker
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident... →
Sebastian Junger
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton... →
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life... →
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply... →
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the... →
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United... →