Tuesday 9th March
Hizbollah vs Israel: the coming clash
A shifting balance of calculation in the middle east makes Lebanon’s Hizbollah movement more confident in its strategy of “deterrence-by-terror” vis-à-vis Israel, says Robert G Rabil
A Soldier's Tale 9: changed, but not utterly dehumanised
In his final letter home from the army our conscript Tolya “finds” a mobile phone, is pursued by a mad officer and wonders what kind of man the army’s made of him
Dedovshchina: bullying in the Russian Army
While bullying is common to all armies, the aberration that is dedovshchina in Russia’s army has a specific history and causes. Military reform is needed to root it out
Fiction as truth, not myth
Heather McRobie on her upcoming novel, which looks at both Radovan Karadzic – now standing trial for war crimes during the Serbian genocide of 1994 – and 19th-century philologist Vuk Karadzic
M's story
Take one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010
