Charles P. Kindregan (Suffolk): Dead Soldiers and Their Posthumously Conceived Children. Women in the military are not a social experiment: Scott Beauchamp on how America’s armed forces should reflect the country’s diversity, not a bygone era. Justin Salhani on how the military’s outdated gender standards are finally breaking down. E.J. Graff goes inside the fight to end trans discrimination in the military. Though transgender people are still barred from openly serving in the military, a small but increasingly visible population of veterans are demanding health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs — and getting it. Give troops the pay and benefits they deserve. Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place — the military, where it thrived for decades.
From New Left Review, the costs of America’s imperial project are registered in the emotional damage inflicted on its soldiers, and multiplier effects on those around them: JoAnn Wypijewski reviews Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel. Moral injury: Amanda Taub on the quiet epidemic of soldiers haunted by what they did during wartime. John Waters interviews Nancy Sherman, author Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers. The Department of Defense wants to use science to make soldiers literally fearless. Engineering humans for war: Annie Jacobsen goes inside the Pentagon’s efforts to create a super-soldier — and change the future of the battlefield. William M. Arkin on how the Army is developing killer robots.
