War

Trump Bans Transgender People From Serving in the Military and I Ban Trump From Being My President

Temporarily stationed in Macedonia with U.N. Peacekeepers patrolling our red-tagged, barbed-wired barracks, I slept on a cot with a bare light bulb hanging…

Their Plan Becomes Clear: US Bombs Pro-Government Forces In Syria Yet Again

Field Notes

It was the first time I ever saw a man shot. Charlie usually blended into the jungle like invisible, venomous snakes. For some reason…

If I Had a Heart

Wildlings
thrive on repetition
slashed lines, jarred up enemies 
buried scorn in jagged edges, stuffed full 
across saturated…

A Funny Little War Story

“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”

Patriotism — why it doesn’t make sense to me

Once, on the deck of a cruise in Australia, I taught the Indian national anthem to…

Aftermath of India’s surgical strike in Pakistan

18 Indian soldiers were killed in the Uri attack. After it was known that the attack was carried out by the terrorists from Pakistan, India was enraged as an entire nation. India’s surgical strike at the terrorist’s launch pads in Pakistan on…