Wars Of Future Past

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Tarkin, Revisited
Andor and the materiel of Empire
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Kelsey D. Atherton
Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
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Forever War Culture War Forever
Starting the story of the Forever War in 2001 misses violent understanding of domestic politics enjoyed by its architects in the 1990s.
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The Tarkin Doctrine
My chapter from “Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict.”
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The Age of Empires Theory of History
In the imagined battlefields of the gamified past, there is only war.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
Sensing Our Way In The World
On war robots, newborn care, and a holistic view of perceiving machines.
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Creating The Visual Canon Of America’s Longest War
How a media distribution site and Public Affairs Officers shape public understanding of whether there is a war on.
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Sentinels
On X-Men, being a new parent, and Giant Robots as an apparatus of the security state.
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Fear Squads And Tread Naught
Armor and not-quite-armor in modern warfare
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The War on Terror and the everyday infrastructure of oblivion
An accidentally timely review of Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
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Kelsey D. Atherton
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
A "Wars of Fingers Past" collaborative Veterans Day guide to militarized brown liquor
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Dave Infante
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From The Verge To Verdun
Games, the Great Divergence, and the financial instruments of violence work
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