Boots on the ground. Usually boys to men, that’s who is required to wage the wars. Boys and men are who they need mostly to fight, kill, maim, kidnap, torture and destroy. In turn they can be killed, maimed, kidnapped, tortured and destroyed as well. They may be...
The ancient Chinese capital of Nanjing has become synonymous with one of human history’s most horrible acts of savagery. In 1937, it was a place where the soldiers of the Japanese government committed acts of rape, murder, and torture that were not in any way...
https://youtu.be/3k3oZEZA29o A few months ago, Typo from Biting the Bullet invited me on for a wide-ranging interview. We discussed my perspective on China and his experience in Marine Corps Intelligence. In the second half of the show, we discuss killing in war and...
https://youtu.be/gBbzLRHTmwg The subject of killing in war has largely been unexplored by the libertarian community, at the very least in its relation to the morality of war. Most who have studied the topic in depth are military or working with the military. This...
In 1996 Lt. Col. Dave Grossman authored “On Killing,” a seminal study on “the psychological cost of learning to killing in war and society.” In it, Grossman documents the unheralded history of man’s inherent resistance to taking fellow human life. This history is so...
On Memorial Day Bill R. Edmonds on war and moral injury : "Some do not get to come home. For those who do, however, some bring their wars home, within them. Too often, they go on to suffer alone, and in silence. Too often, their traumas last a lifetime. Healing,...
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
