Sublime

This was our contribution to the war effort, we were told. An opportunity for us to prove our loyalty.

So they formed armies, armies beyond the control of any outside power. There was Mao Zedong’s Red Army in China, the Burma National Army, the Indian National Army, the Viet Minh, the Lao Issara (Free Laos), the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army, and the Hukbalahap in the Philippines. Some had grown under Japan’s protection, others were born of th

Bill Fisk’s war was helping to produce the century’s first genocide – that of a million and a half Armenians – laying the foundations for a second, that of the Jews of Europe.

Debt, dependency, threats, and force, in that order, was the thinking of the day. These secret memos were written while Jefferson served as president of the United States.

prostitution was another necessary wartime service requiring gendered labor in Hawai‘i, but it was unofficially sanctioned by the U.S. military.

The price was never paid by the war’s leaders. As a U.S. Army officer in Iraq wrote in 2007, “A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.” The cost for Americans fell on the bodies and minds of young men and women from small towns and inner cities. It was unusual to meet anyone in uniform in Iraq who

Empire as a “way of life” in the islands remains visible yet nearly unspeakable even today, manifesting itself as the most “militouristic” zone of the United States.35