🔗 Your Neighbor's Son (1976) - IMDb
documents the conversion of young Greek Military Police recruits into torturers and touches on the subject of the power of the institution to compel otherwise moral human beings to torture
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🔗 Turkey’s lessons for Egypt
The broadly based demand is that the new constitution establish the principles of liberal democracy in place of a semi-liberal, tutelary kind of democracy run by the military and a civilian bureaucracy committed to Kemalism (Turkish secular nationalism), the official ideology of the republic since its founding in 1923.
🔗 US soldiers posed with dead Afghan - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
US soldiers posed with dead Afghan http://is.gd/NxBEy9
🔗 China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'
The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur.
🔗 Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK armed forces: first phase of a cohort study -- BMJ
Men deployed for 13 months or more in the past 3 years were more likely to get PTSD, severe alcohol problems. PTSD associated with mismatch between expectations about duration of deployment and reality.
🔗 America's Medicated Army - TIME
The increasing use of antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs among U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.