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Taking war seriously

Matthew McCaffrey (Manchester): The Political Economy of The Art of War. Charles Blattberg (Montreal): Taking War Seriously. John D. Haskell (Mississippi College): Going Nowhere: The Rhetoric of Warfare and Humanitarian Intervention in Global Law and Policy Debates. P.A.L. Ducheine and Eric Pouw (Amsterdam): Legitimizing the Use of Force. Alice Ristroph (Seton Hall): Just Violence. Jens David Ohlin (Cornell): Justice after War. Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (UP): Your Country, My Rules: Can Military Occupations Create Successful Transitions? From the inaugural issue of Critical Military Studies, Matthew Rech, Daniel Bos, K. Neil Jenkings, and Alison Williams (Newcastle): Geography, Military Geography, and Critical Military Studies; and Cynthia Enloe (Clark): The Recruiter and the Sceptic: A Critical Feminist Approach to Military Studies. As more women are becoming combatants in major armed conflicts around the globe, will our understanding of their impact keep pace? Jessica Trisko Darden and Ora Szekely on how warfare isn’t just a man’s game anymore. Daniel D. Maurer on the future fallacy and the “certainty principle”. The biological spoils of war: A study finds those who take part in violent conflict have more wives, children. A look at why no one used camouflage until WWI. You can download Making Sense of War: Strategy for the 21st Century by Alan Stephens and Nicola Baker (2006).