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Profiles in Toxic Masculinity XI – Marcus Antonius
Profiles in Toxic Masculinity, Part 11 Appearances Can Be… Deceiving? It’s just another bust of some old dead...
Chapter 24: After Action
As I sit writing this, August 25, 2001, the DoD has recently asserted that if the manufacturer, BioPort,...
Chapter 23: Conviction
I left the courtroom before the judge announced his sentence. I couldn’t watch. It wasn’t technically my...
Chapter 22: Why, Indeed
If both individual and organizational greed largely describe the “Why” of Chapter 20, the final reason for...
Chapter 21: Back to Okinawa
I was stoic on the ride to the airport. It had nothing to do with emotional control; it was strictly a...
Making War Ethically: To Bomb or Not to Bomb
I'm in the middle of reading Victor Davis Hanson's "Soul of Battle” and, much like the phenomenon of buying a...
Chapter 20: Why?
As a mandatory, force-wide countermeasure to the real threat of weaponized anthrax on the battlefield, the...
Chapter 19: Working Behind the Scenes
Executive Order 13139, which implements 10 U.S.C. § 1107, clearly states that the requirements it...
Chapter 18: The Walking Wounded
One year ago today, I was stationed in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. I received my fourth anthrax vaccine. That’s...