As US gets drawn deeper into the Ukraine conflict, it should remember the lessons of the Iraq War

There is no end in sight to the war between Ukraine and Russia – nor Washington’s role in it.

Patrick James, The Conversation

· May 07, 2023 · 09:30 pm

A tale of two ‘Chicken’s Necks’: How India’s armed forces kept Pakistan and China at bay

Both on the western and eastern fronts, two strips of land with same nickname proved crucial in conflict.

Probal Dasgupta

· Feb 29, 2020 · 11:30 am

In Northern Ireland, peace seems to have claimed more lives than war ever did

Why did more people take their own lives in the 16 years after The Troubles than during the period of the ethno-nationalist conflict?

Chrissie Giles, Mosaic.com

· Mar 05, 2016 · 09:30 pm

Why we should listen to the music of the Holocaust – and that of Syrian refugees

If we listen to the songs of displaced Syrians, just as we listen to the songs of victims of the Holocaust, we connect to displaced communities’ creativity, ingenuity and imagination.

Ian Biddle, The Conversation

· Jan 28, 2016 · 06:30 am

World War II ended 70 years ago – when the forgotten ‘death railway’ was completed

One ceremony on V J Day announced that the Sumatra railway had been completed, the construction of which had cost more than 80,000 lives and that 70 years later is still a little known story.

Lizzie Oliver, The Conversation

· Aug 21, 2015 · 04:30 pm