Robert Bohm and Ozgur Gurerk (RWTH Aachen) and Hannes Rusch (Giessen): What Makes People Go to War? Defensive Intentions Motivate Retaliatory and Preemptive Intergroup Aggression. From The National Interest, Robert Farley on the most horrific war of all time: Russia vs. Germany; and what might spark World War III, and how would it escalate into a global conflict? Here are five potential scenarios: none likely, but all possible. Andrew J. Bacevich revisits Randolph Bourne, a forgotten WWI-era prophet, who said “War is the health of the state”. From TNR, is war photography beautiful or damned? Jordan G. Teicher reviews War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Combat by David Shields (and more); and Susie Linfield on what war photographs leave out: Without understanding the politics of the war, we cannot understand the photographs.
