War & Military

This board surveys the images and data from wars all over the world and throughout history. As one sociologist noted, the task is to discern the constitutive features of modern warfare, and one is that the state turns to the ordinary people to wage its wars. States routinely ask people "to take up arms...to support the war effort and ultimately to endure dislocation..to become..casualties" (Kestnbaum 2005). Please draw on all our boards related to war & find even more of its constitutive logics.
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Source: U.S. Military Academy
Source: Historical Statistics of the United States
Photo credit: James F. Gibson

War: The American Civil War (1861 - 1865)

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"The dot in the centre represents all the firepower of World War II. The other dots represent the firepower of existing nuclear weapons. The top right circle represents the weapons on one Poseidon submarine. It is equal to the firepower of three world wars."
Source: Mrnett1974
If there's ATOMIC WARFARE this book may save your life! How to Survive an Atomic Bomb

War: Nuclear Arms & Nuclear War

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A U.S. soldier questions two Korean boys serving in the North Korean army after their capture by the 389th Infantry Regiment in 1950. Photo credit: Francis Mullin
Soldiers from the 7th Infantry Division hunker down in trenches during the Korean War, July 1953. Photo credit: National Archives

War: The Korean War (1950 - 1953)

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U.S. paratroopers of the Second Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, September 25, 1965. Photo credit: Does anyone know who took this image?
"For me, the ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: 'We came in peace for all mankind.' As the US was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in SE Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock." ~Carl Sagan [click on this image to find a short clip & analysis of just and unjust wars from a sociological perspective]
from the series "History," 2014 David Levinthal began creating photographic references to the Vietnam War in 2010, spurred by the availability of a higher quality & number of toy replicas related to the conflict. Helicopter references the opening sequence from Coppola's iconic 1979 film Apocalypse Now, in which Huey helicopters fly in front of a massive napalm explosion. With just a few visual elements, Levinthal conjures a vivid and instantly recognizable picture of the Vietnam War.

War: The Vietnam War (1955 - 1975)

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The photographer, Phil Penman, got as close as he could to the buildings before police erected the cordon, September 11, 2001. Photo credit: Phil Penman — in New York, New York.
A knot of bystanders at Park Row and Beekman Street look up as the South Tower begins to collapse, September 11, 2001. Photo credit: Patrick Witty — in New York, New York.
As seen through a fish-eye lens from an apartment four blocks away. Smoke streams from the North Tower within minutes of the first plane's attack, September 11, 2001. Photo credit: Patricia McDonough — in New York, New York.

War: Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

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Artist: Mana Neyestani
"Do you support the missile attack on Syria?" "I'm just thankful that Syria didn't bomb us for poining the cildren of Flint or gassing natives at Standing Rock." ~ Amber Zirkelbach

The Syrian Civil War (2011 - present)

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For better or worse, the strength of a country's military is directly linked to its influence on the world stage. To make sense of a country's actual strength, we have compiled key elements that comprise the 35 strongest militaries around the world according to a ranking published by Global Firepower. Quality of equipment, training, and professionalism of each military is not taken into account. Source: Global Firepower
SIPRI Military Expenditure Database 2011 SIPRI Yearbook 2011. SIPRI: nin.tl/v1bj70 Robert Pollin and Heidi Garret-Peltier, ‘The US Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities’, PERI, 2009. William D Hartung, ‘Military Spending: A poor job creator’, Center for International Policy, September 2011: nin.tl/vbLmlJ Mike Ludwig, ‘US Military Paid $1.1 Trillion to Contractors That Defrauded the Government’, Truthout, 20 October 2011:truth-out.org
"Military Spending: Iran v. U.S." via (Glenn Greenwald)

War: Military Spending

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