Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that he would be lifting the ban on women in combat roles, a rule first recognized by the Pentagon in 1994. The decision doesn’t change much, since women have been in combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan
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Post-9/11 politicians used the terror attacks to transform themselves into a new version of the American Superman — one that relied on clichéd election phrases, vague promises and patriot-infused speeches.
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MilitarizationUpfront
The American Population Is Disconnected from War (Part 1)
by Kyle Allen March 2, 2011How we choose apathy over awareness about international conflict By Kyle Allen When the average American young adult walks down the street, they have a…
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The prevalence of rape in the military By Hayleigh Gowans From the American Revolutionary War, all the way to the current wars, women have had…
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Bedlam Productions, 2010 By Isabel Braverman In these times of bipartisan journalism seeing a piece of honest journalistic work is rare. It is even rarer…
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1. Facebook For all of the criticism it takes for breaching individual privacy, Facebook continues to dominate every aspect of our social lives. Look no…
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Reflections on the Iraq War as some troops return home By Mike McCabe Although in recent years Afghanistan has regained the status of “Radical Middle…
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Buzz BlogWhat's Happening
WHAT’S HAPPENING: Election and War in Afghanistan
by Julissa Trevino November 4, 2009By Julissa Treviño There has been a lot of speculation and suspicion about corruption and illegitimacy surrounding the re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. President…