War, said James Madison, is “the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.” Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned, “War is the health of the state.” Hence Barack Obama’s State of the Union hymn: Onward civilian soldiers, marching as to war. Read full article > >

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Obama to the nation: Onward civilian soldiers

The government spent more than £400,000 on sending celebrities to visit soldiers in Afghanistan last year, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says.

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Celebrity Afghan trips cost £400k

Prominent republican Colin Duffy, who was cleared of murdering two soldiers in Antrim, says his DNA was planted in the getaway car.

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Duffy says ‘DNA planted’ in car

Colin Duffy, one of the men accused of murdering two soldiers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim been found not guilty on all charges.

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Judge finds Duffy not guilty

After four French soldiers killed Friday.

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France Threatens Pullout in Afghanistan

Six foreign soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, the worst such incident since last August, Nato says.

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Afghan helicopter crash kills six

Scientists turn ants into “supersoldiers” with giant heads and jaws, in a study they say reveals hidden evolutionary potential in many species.

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Scientists turn ants into “supersoldiers” with giant heads and jaws, in a study they say reveals hidden evolutionary potential in many species.

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Ants turned into ‘supersoldiers’

Scientists turn ants into “supersoldiers” with giant heads and jaws, in a study they say reveals hidden evolutionary potential in many species.

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Ants turned into ‘supersoldiers’

Egyptian soldiers and police storm offices of at least 17 non-governmental organisations, seizing computers and documents in a series of raids.

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Egyptian NGO group offices raided

MEXICO CITY — When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming. The alert goes out from a taxi driver or a street vendor, equipped with a high-end handheld radio and paid to work as a lookout known as a “halcon,” or hawk. Read full article > >

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Mexico’s cartels build own national radio system

Only a few dozen soldiers left in Kuwait.

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Last Iraq Combat Troops Return to U.S.

A building used by paramilitary forces in northwestern Pakistan was struck early on Saturday, killing at least six soldiers.

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Deadly Car Bomber Attacks Soldiers in Northwest Pakistan

A suicide car bomb attack kills six people, including five soldiers, and wounds at least 12 others in north-west Pakistan, officials say.

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The charges against eight soldiers in the death of Pvt. Danny Chen have focused attention on the line between discipline and abuse.

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Army Hazing Charges: Where Discipline Crosses Line