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Photos from the Front Lines of the Ukraine Conflict
Photographer Michela AG Iaccarino spent two years among soldiers and civilians inside the hotly disputed Russia-Ukraine border areas, and this is what she saw.
Photos from the Front Lines of the Ukraine Conflict
Michela A. G. Iaccarino spent two years in Ukraine documenting the conflict between Russian-supported separatists and pro-Ukrainian forces.
After ISIS Killed His Friends, This Guy Founded a Security Firm to Kill ISIS
"Anyone who kills friends of mine has made himself my target. I won't stop until ISIS is destroyed."
Four Former Blackwater Mercenaries Are Going to Prison for Slaughtering Iraqi Civilians
Mercenaries have been a trademark of American foreign policy since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but at least four of those guys are paying a price for treating Iraqis like something other than fellow humans.
Let's Blow Some Shit Up: A Brief History of Cathartic Destruction in Video Games
From demolishing buildings with dynamite to simply punching stuff apart, games have addressed violently destroying things in very different ways over the years.
Killing People Overseas Will Always Be a Growth Industry
Today, foreign policy is enacted through corporations. Tasks that once would have been the sole province of the CIA or the military are routinely contracted out to firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Is the Blackwater Verdict the Beginning of the End for Private Military Contractors?
Mercenaries are finally paying a price for killing innocent Iraqi civilians.
Hired Guns
Mercenary armies are still killing it after all these years. And we're still paying for it.
Dead Space
Dead Space is a third-person over-the-shoulder shooter set on the planet-cracking mining starship Ishimura, full of monsters made from the fused and repurposed dead flesh of its former crew. You play Isaac Clark, an engineer on the ship sent to...