Last month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that he would be lifting the ban on women in combat roles, a rule first recognized by the Pentagon in 1994. The decision doesn’t change much, since women have been in combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan
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The ins and outs of English as a Second Language
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Last night President Obama announced that given the recent departure of troops from Iraq and the lessening action in Afghanistan, the U.S. military planned to turn its attention to the second greatest threat to national security; declaring war on Fright.
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Ithaca College’s Theatre Department kicked off their fall season strong with Plumfield, Iraq, a sobering play showing the horrors of the Iraq War overseas and at home.
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MilitarizationUpfront
The American Population is Disconnected from War (2)
by Shaun Poust March 2, 2011Why overcoming our apathy about conflicts abroad is impossible By Shaun Poust In 1991, French thinker Jean Baudrillard published a collection of essays on the…
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The prevalence of rape in the military By Hayleigh Gowans From the American Revolutionary War, all the way to the current wars, women have had…
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Reflections on the Iraq War as some troops return home By Mike McCabe Although in recent years Afghanistan has regained the status of “Radical Middle…
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By Ian Starker Hayder Assad is an Arabic lecturer at Ithaca College. He lived in Iraq all his life until Oct. 30, 2007. He was…
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One soldier documents his experiences By Karin Fleming The soldier pokes through a fire pit, pointing out the remains of the person whose body was…