-
Published in: oDR: NewsRussia plans crackdown on men avoiding the draftA new online system means anyone who receives a military summons will be banned from leaving the country
-
Published in: Home: ExplainerWhat’s happening in Myanmar?Activists fear a ‘killing spree’ after the military junta carried out the country’s first executions in decades
-
Published in: Home: AnalysisThe Ukraine war is at a dangerous stalemate. What’s next?Vladimir Putin is now fighting a proxy war against NATO. Losing would be a disaster for either side
-
Published in: Home: OpinionThe counterinsurgency mythUS failure in Afghanistan was not the result of a plan poorly executed. Rather, it reveals the violent logic at the...
-
Published in: Home: OpinionUS defeat in Afghanistan marks the end of neoliberalismThe past 50 years of Western economics are rooted in imperial exploitation. But if the US’s military can be beaten,...
-
Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe ancient band of shepherds taking on a NATO land grab in MontenegroEvery day is critical in the pastoralists’ fight to save their ecosystems and way of life from the military training ground.
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: a state serving the militarySince the coup of 2013, there has been a process of structural change within the Egyptian state, where civilian...
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy do Arabs trust the military?Why do so many people in Arab countries trust armed forces, even though most armies in the region are highly corrupt?
-
Published in: democraciaAbiertaMilitary temptation and institutional instability in Latin AmericaLatin America’s turbulence shows the limits of democratic institutions to deal with political conflict and, as seen...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUKIf the government puts soldiers on the streets in a hard Brexit, we must refuse to obey themThe UK defence secretary has said the army is on stand by in case of a no deal Brexit. But the armed forces have no...
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMorocco: military service and education reform promise more repressionThe reinstatement of compulsory military service in this context of growing tensions is meant to be used for social control.
-
Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsCambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propagandaYou can't understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does.
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe US cannot win the Middle East: six reasons whyThe United States has yet again attempted to resolve issues in the Middle East. This time it is by firing missiles...
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaReconsidering Turkish military culture and secularism after the coup attemptHow did Turkish military culture transform under the rule of AKP? And what will be the impact of the failed coup...
-
Published in: oDRNo, Russia is not preparing for all-out warRussia’s snap military mobilisation drills are an internal exercise. But troublesome relations with the west could...
-
Published in: oDRWhat Maksim did on his holidaysDiary of a boy who spent a week at a children’s military-patriotic camp in Russia.
-
Published in: oDRMukachevo puts Ukraine to the testAfter a deadly fight between a volunteer battalion and local police over smuggling in the country's western...
-
Published in: oDRHow Russia’s opposition learned to stop worrying and love Crimea
A recent statement by a prominent Russian opposition figure is testament to an unpalatable truth: Crimea’s...
-
Published in: oDRThe ‘return’ of nuclear weapons
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus.
-
Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Syrian army and its power pyramidTo continue our examination of the Syrian army, a contesting view to that of Kamal Alam in an excerpt from Gilbert...
