Hiroshima after the dropping of the first wartime atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 (Imperial War Museum photo) Seventy-four years ago today, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly..…

Troops are conditioned by peacetime habits, policies, and procedures; they do not undergo a sudden metamorphosis that transforms civilians in uniform into warriors. ... As in civilian life, conformism is the overwhelming societal norm; the nail that stands up gets hammered down. ..…

Attacks against civilians Colombia continued to increase in the half of 2019 compared to the period last year, according to United Nations.. ... There was also in cases of torture with 10 cases being reported in the half of 2018 and in the period of this year with attacks on the lives of..…

I feel the same about most of the bombing of civilians by all sides Germans, British, Japanese, American and Soviet in the conflict, since most of it had little effect on the outcome. ..…

The inequality is not surprising, says lead Frank Edwards, in School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark, noting the police killings of black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and boys like Tamir Rice, and the protests that followed that brought national attention to the intersection of..…

Eisenhower’s assessment was “It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing . . . to use the atomic bomb, to kill and terrorize civilians, without even attempting [negotiations], was a double crime.” ... As the document concerning Marshall’s views suggests, the question of whether..…

“We need to increase transparency of police use-of-force if we are going to decrease the number of civilian deaths in this country as a result of these encounters.” . ..…

Brown’s researchers estimate that at least 480,000 people have been directly killed by violence over the course of these conflicts, more than 244,000 of them civilians. ..…

Back in the late 1980s, far-right militants pioneered two of the most consequential trends in global terrorism: establishing their networks in cyberspace and using lone-wolf attacks against civilian targets. ..…

Hiroshima was reckoned to be a contributor to Japan's war effort, though civilian and military facilities were intermingled, as they were throughout Japan. . ..…

majority of the in the community and in the civilian ranks of Pentagon are already paid contractors. ..…

The inequality is not surprising, said lead Frank Edwards, in School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark, noting the police killings of black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner and boys like Tamir Rice and the protests that followed bringing national attention to the character of police..…

Wilcox makes a case that Japan successfully detonated an atomic device close to what was then called Konan, Korea, on or about August 12, 1945, which is to say six days after Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, killing over 90,000 civilians, and three days after the Nagasaki bomb that killed at least..…

In 2012 Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honour. . ..…

FETÖ orchestrated the failed July 15 coup attempt in 2016, during which 251 civilians were killed, some 2,200 others were injured. ..…

But it wasn’t just civilians; the headline was also criticized by prominent media personalities and public figures. . ..…

This toxic mix of decaying arms control and new advanced weaponry is made even more dangerous by the absence of dialogue between Russia and the West—in particular, between civilian and military professionals in the defense and foreign ministries. ... But their inability to follow..…

The now 18-year-old Afghanistan is raising serious questions and once again, it appears that the civilians are taking the brunt of the hit — not the ostensible enemy.. While the number of injured decreased, the number of civilians killed more highlighting the character of this tactic,..…

Our military helped by the millions of civilian militias are winning the battle against al Qaeda. ..…

The Indian army’s killing of Hizbul Mujahideen’s leader Burhan Muzaffar Wani, 22, in July, triggered huge demonstrations: in response, more than 50 civilians were killed and 8,000 wounded, newspapers were banned and social networks suspended. ... The song I protest (Remembrance) by MC Kash,..…

They have moved tens of thousands of army personnel to this state which already has the largest presence of military per civilian population in the world. ..…

LNA confirmed late on Sunday on Murzuq, and denied it had targeted any civilians. ... The European Union said in statement that Murzuq strike had claimed the lives of civilians and those committing war crimes needed to be brought to justice. ..…

I will continue to work with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to promote the policy with our leading prowess, based on Israel's capabilities, both in the fields of security and intelligence, and in the civilian arenas. ..…

“This is the definition that the dictionary will give you: ‘unlawful use of violence or intimidation, especially against civilians, in pursuit of political gains’… so please friends, stop using [the term] ‘sanctions’… sanctions have a legal connotation. ..…

Thousands of civilians and army and paramilitary personnel, besides militants, get killed every year. ..…