‘Did we just kill a kid?’: The moment drone operator who assassinated Afghans with the push of a button on a computer in the U.S. realized he had vaporized a child… and could not go on. By Helen Pow | From MailOnline A former U.S. drone operator has opened up about the toll of killing […]
Dreams in Infrared: The Woes of an American Drone Pilot By Nicola Abé from Spiegel Online International Gilles Mingasson/ DER SPIEGEL For more photos, click here. A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of the United […]
From ArmyTimes | Original Article As many as 12 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in November, pushing the Army above last year’s record number of suicides with one month left to go in the year, officials said today. With the deaths in November, of which one has been confirmed as suicide, the Army has now had […]
Click here to watch John Lennon’s moving video, reminding us that we do have the capacity to end these wars. Happy holidays from all of us at We Are Not Your Soldiers and World Can’t Wait.
Today I received a post from a man who was my best friend from second grade through high school about how one of his army buddies had died in Afghanistan . I guess he and I have grown apart this last year but it makes me sad to hear another life has been lost for […]
On Afghan War 11th Anniversary, Vets Confront Mental Health Crisis, Soldier Suicides and Violence Watch Democracy Now! video here. On the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, we take a look at the invisible wounds of war here at home. Since the war began on Oct. 7, 2001, less than a […]
Photo © by Chris Vongsawat American military deaths in Afghanistan and the communities from which these soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines came. Informative report by Michael Zweig, Michael Porter, and Yuxiang Huang. Full Report (.pdf) Notes on Data and Methods List of Counties Casualty Data File
