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Commander Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (center) meets with high-ranking military personnel on Oct. 7, 2009  outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Gen. McChrystal's Advice To Trump On Coronavirus: 'Fight It As An American Fight'

Apr 01, 2020
Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal's leadership guidance for managing the coronavirus crisis: instill confidence, tell the truth and fight it like a war.
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YA Fantasy Where The Oppression Is Real

Jan 28, 2020
Tomi Adeyemi's new book, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, is fantasy for young adults. But the issues it's dealing with — racism, oppression and war — are very real. And they're not sugarcoated.
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Howard Weistling created his comic book <em>A Western</em> out of cigarette wrappers and flattened soup cans while he was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II.
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'Like Getting My Father Back': WWII POW's Art Returned To His Family

Nov 10, 2019
Howard Weistling dreamed of becoming a great comic strip artist, but he felt compelled to enlist in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He eventually created a comic while a prisoner of war in Germany.
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Study Asks If War Makes A Person More ... Or Less ... Religious

Jul 30, 2019
The researchers looked at responses of 1,709 people in three countries that have undergone prolonged, brutal conflict. The findings hold encouraging news — and a cautionary note.
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'Presidents Of War' Sounds The Alarm About Presidential Power

Oct 09, 2018
In his new book, Michael Beschloss focuses on the lead up to war. But a more pressing danger and indictment of presidential power may be the interventions not authorized by Congress.
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What Happens When Two Enemies Fall In Love?

May 27, 2018
A love story between a black Army nurse and a German POW during World War II? You couldn't make that story up — and Alexis Clark, author of the upcoming book, Enemies in Love, didn't.
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The wreckage of ambulances outside a makeshift hospital used by rebel fighters in Aleppo.
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Sheer Number Of Attacks On Health Facilities In Syria Shocks Researcher

Apr 24, 2018
A new study compiled nearly 200 incidents in 2016 in northern Syria — double the amount from a previous attempt to come up with data. And everyone agrees that number is likely an undercount.
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Amer Mohammad walks with his son Yasser, 4, in Mosul. Mohammad is a health ministry employee who hasn't been paid in almost four years. His 15-year-old son Ahmed was killed in a mortar attack in the old city.
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Months After ISIS, Much Of Iraq's Mosul Is Still Rubble

Mar 03, 2018
U.S.-backed Iraqi forces drove the militants out of the city eight months ago, but residents say hardly any efforts are in place to rebuild homes after airstrikes and explosions toppled them.
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Raed Fares, an activist in Kafranbel, Syria, posted these images to Facebook of scenes he said he woke to Monday after airstrikes hit a local hospital.
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Why Civilians Are Being Targeted In Syria Airstrikes

Feb 07, 2018
Civilian death tolls are piling up as the Syrian regime and its ally Russia attack Eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, and parts of the northern Idlib province.
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A view inside <a href="https://www.facebook.com/QahwahHouse/">Qahwah House</a>, a Yemeni coffee house in Dearborn, Mich. The city has a high concentration of Arabs and Arab-Americans (<em>qahwah</em> means coffee in Arabic).
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Coffee Shop Entrepreneur Shows Customers Yemen Is About More Than War

Jan 03, 2018
A café owner in Dearborn, Mich., sees himself as part entrepreneur, part cultural ambassador for his home country, which is more associated with war than being the world's first coffee exporter.
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U.S. horses were loaded onto transport ships that went from the U.S. to European ports and later to the war front.
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The Unsung Equestrian Heroes Of World War I And The Plot To Poison Them

Apr 06, 2017
April 6 marks 100 years since the U.S. entered World War I. Years before, the U.S. supported the effort by sending over thousands of horses — who were so important that Germans plotted to kill them.
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The Other WWII American-Internment Atrocity

Feb 21, 2017
There's another tragic and untold story of American citizens who were also interned during the war. They are the 881 Aleuts from Alaska who were held for three years.
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U.S. Navy air wing captains pause on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt last September. Every day, the steam-powered catapult aboard this massive ship flings American fighter jets into the sky, on missions to target the extrem
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U.S. Army Captain Is Suing Obama Over Legality Of The War Against ISIS

May 05, 2016
Capt. Nathan Michael Smith, who is currently on active duty in Kuwait, says he is concerned that an "illegal" war "forces him to violate his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution."
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"Grounded" Explores The World Of A Creech Drone Pilot

Feb 21, 2014

A high-flying pilot finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and reassigned to the "Chair Force" of desert drone pilots in George Brant's award-winning play

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The Life Of A Drone Pilot

Nov 12, 2013

Situated 50 miles outside of Las Vegas, drone operator Lt. Colonel Bruce Black. bombed targets in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The Last Nevada Guardsman to Leave Iraq Reflects Back

Jun 13, 2012
Last October, President Obama declared that all U.S.
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WWII Japanese American Veterans Reunite in Las Vegas

Apr 23, 2012
Every year, WWII veterans from the 442nd Regiment of the U.S.
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P.W. Singer

Mar 21, 2012
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When We Walked Above the Clouds [Rebroadcast]

Jan 03, 2012
The Green Berets have won an almost mythical status during the Vietnam War. They were the crack troops that would win the war against the counterinsurgents.
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When We Walked Above the Clouds

Nov 15, 2011
The Green Berets have won an almost mythical status during the Vietnam War. They were the crack troops that would win the war against the counterinsurgents.
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The Trojan Women

Apr 07, 2011
In 415 BC Euripides' play "The Trojan Women" was performed at the Dyonisia. It's being presented again in a modern translation at the Black Box Theatre at UNLV.
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Wired for War

Mar 24, 2011
Brookings scholar Peter Singer's book "Wired for War," explains the realities of technology like unmanned drones, in modern warfare. Singer comes to UNLV as a visiting scholar at Brookings Mountain West and he'll give a lecture Tuesday (3/22) night called "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21 Century.
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Dealing with Combat Trauma

Mar 15, 2011
What happens when veterans return home from war? How do they deal with the loss of friends who died before their eyes? How do they re-adapt to work, to the neighborhood..
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Afghanistan through a Military Photographer's Lens

Apr 01, 2010
What does a life of guns, children, and prayer mats look like through a photographer's lens? Air Force photographer Larry Reid talks about taking pictures of sergeants mixing with everyday Afghanis. How did it change his perspective? Join us for a special conversation.
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The War on Drugs

Feb 19, 2010
The United States has only 5% of the world's population but it uses 60% of the world's drugs. That number alone is enough to suggest that we have no chance of winning the war on drugs or so argues Dr.
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