Word: battlefield
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...think about killing on a battlefield, why isn’t it murder? Well one of the reasons that it’s not murder is that soldiers, if they act in particular ways, if they’re wearing uniforms and so forth, they are privileged to kill. “Privilege” is a technical legal term that means they are enabled to kill combatants and also civilians so long as they are doing it for a legitimate military purpose and injury to civilians is necessary to achieve their military objective. That’s where...
They are also a vanishing breed: the war hero. Soldiers surely acted exemplarily in Korea, and Vietnam, and Iraq, but each of those conflicts exhausted the rooting interest of the American public, which eventually went looking not for battlefield derring-do but for statesmen who could clean up the mess. Eastwood's compassionate, cautionary tale speaks eloquently about a time when America needed heroes, and does so when we are no longer sure what they look like--when the indelible photo op of the Iraq war is from Abu Ghraib...
...Biggest Hassle - High-ranking visitors. More disruptive to work than a rocket attack. VIPs demand briefs and "battlefield" tours (we take them to quiet sections of Fallujah, which is plenty scary for them). Our briefs and commentary seem to have no effect on their preconceived notions of what's going on in Iraq. Their trips allow them to say that they've been to Fallujah, which gives them an unfortunate degree of credibility in perpetuating their fantasies about the insurgency here...
...with her. In their classic 1944 book, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern built a mathematical model of economic and social organization--creating the foundations of modern game theory--by studying strategy games like poker. Poker is like life, the argument goes, a battlefield where the players constantly try to assess risks and guess one another's next moves. More recently, Anthony Cabot, a leading gaming-law attorney who represents online and casino operators, co-authored a paper for the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review linking poker to other games in history, like jousting...
...more stories about the risks American soldiers were taking, about the kinds of injuries they were suffering and the new therapies the Army medical corps had developed to cope with them. Indeed, one of the differences about the Iraq conflict is that because of advances in battlefield medicine and body armor, a much greater ratio of the wounded are surviving in this war than in previous conflicts. Those are the soldiers we have written about again and again and the soldiers whom Blood Brothers is dedicated...