Posted on May 16, 2011, 12:40 am, by adam.

Hetherington.911.2011-04-24-at-7.48.49-PM.png 680×449. Bandolier of Grenades, photo taken by Tim Hetherington in the Korengal Valley. Appreciated this photographer/blogger‘s interpretation: The power of the image is borne in some measure by its apparent simplicity as a still life photograph—an aesthetically beautiful rendering of the form of mundane, everyday objects. But of course, there’s the rub, since for [...]
Posted on February 5, 2011, 8:31 pm, by adam.

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Posted on December 14, 2009, 3:30 pm, by adam.

Another article glossing over the significance of soft power for the easier-to-comprehend (and market) horrors (fascination?) of physical violence. For those unfamiliar with HTS Since 2007, the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System (HTS) has been placing social scientists in every Army combat brigade, regiment and Marine Corps regimental combat team. There are now more than 500 [...]