Tag: military
Judith Beyer , February 19th, 2022
The Myanmar military will appear at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on 21 February 2022. Their main interest does not lie in defending the…
Leo Chu , October 26th, 2021
On the morning of 23rd February 2021, I boarded a bus from my home in northern Taiwan to a nearby military training center. There I joined another four…
René Umlauf , May 20th, 2021
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, are on the rise. During the ongoing corona crisis their potential to either monitor curfews or to provide contactless deliveries…
Maria Pujol Fernández , March 18th, 2021
During the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code war machine) and thus gained access to key…
focaal_admin , February 3rd, 2021
International media coverage of the February 1st military coup in Myanmar has been rather consistent. The focus, overwhelmingly, has been on the detention of State Counsellor and Nobel…
allisontedesco , January 25th, 2021
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton toward migrants by Freedom House via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that…
allisontedesco , August 10th, 2020
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center at Panmunjon, on the border of…
Pamela Maddock , July 13th, 2020
In April, a friend relayed her experience of getting a test for COVID-19 at a drive-through site at a university in Rhode Island, describing “dozens of camouflaged National…
Tanja Petrovic , May 20th, 2020
“My best friend from the army was a unit officer responsible for food and supplies. His name was Đura and he was from Serbia. He was two meters…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , March 26th, 2020
In 1853, the former Superintendent of Indian Affairs of Oregon Anson Dart had been forced to resign as none of his nineteen treaties with the tribes were ratified….
Elis Mendoza , March 10th, 2020
Forest analysis of scorched earth. Courtesy of Daniele Profeta. Princeton University, 2015. On an early January morning in 2015 a group of lawyers from the Guatemalan NGO Mujeres…
Alexandra Frankel , January 28th, 2019
While the US federal government remained in the longest partial shutdown in history, the Trump administration managed to make headway in its baffling effort to prevent transgender Americans…
Focaal Web Editor , April 25th, 2017
Der Spiegel, a well-thought-of magazine, ran in February 2017 a cover depicting the newly elected President Donald Trump, standing with one arm upstretched brandishing a bloody knife and…
Maximilian C. Forte , October 7th, 2016
“There is something unseemly about a nation conducting a foreign policy that involves it in the affairs of most of the nations of the world while its own…
David Thompson , April 27th, 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at some of the many recent publications on the law, sovereignty, security and the state. As winter is now well…
Priscilla Bennett , January 22nd, 2016
F-5N Tiger II Simulator at NAS Fallon. Photo Courtesy Joseph K. Robinson The simulator operator warned me that I might get sick. I stepped down from the platform…
A. J. West , December 6th, 2015
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan in…
A. J. West , December 5th, 2015
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan's fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan i…
A. J. West , December 5th, 2015
Antonio Pigafetta visited Borneo in July 1521 during the first circumnavigation of the world, immediately after Magellan’s fatal encounter with the Filipino chieftain Lapu-Lapu at Mactan in…
Christopher Webb , November 18th, 2015
After War: The Weight of Life At Walter Reed by Zoë Wool Duke University Press, 2015, 264 pages. In After War: The Weight of Life At Walter Reed,…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds , May 31st, 2015
How the relationship between the Caribbean and foreign military forces in the 20th century had many different incarnations and forms, and left lasting legacies… The Caribbean Studies Ass…