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Self-Termination
by Benjamin Fortier I wrote this piece after telling the story aloud to some of my cohorts at the Patrol Base Abbate book club retreat in the Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Epilogue)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 22, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 6)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 21, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 5)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 20 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as the Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 4)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 19, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 3)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 18, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 2)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 17, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
Six Reasons the Taliban Won Afghanistan (Part 1)
Editor's Note: This first appeared in The Havok Journal on August 16, 2021. Chris' six-part series is being republished over the next three days as Continue Reading
For Those of Us Who Still Remember
For those of us who still remember September 11th, 2001, will never forget what we felt that day and the weeks and months that passed after. I Continue Reading
I Am War
I amI am that is hardly seenI am what you fear Look into my eyesI lay dormant and aloneI come from a darknessYou’ll never know I am war I amI Continue Reading
Why the Fall of Iraq Bothers Me
by Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta's blog, "Life After War" on June 16, 2014, and is republished with the author's Continue Reading