Author: Michael

In 2021, Nicholas Miller wrote, “The Lessons of the Past Point to Rejoining the Iran Deal,” in which he detailed how previous nuclear non-proliferation diplomacy had been derailed and the lessons it offered for policymakers. Now, four years later, after the Biden administration was not able to rejoin the so-called Iran nuclear deal, we asked Miller to reexamine his argument given all that’s happened in the world and the Middle East in particular. Read more below: Image: Dragon Tactic via Wikimedia Commons.

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An Army sergeant who terrorized women living in the barracks at Fort Cavazos, Texas for over a year and a half was found guilty this week of dozens of violent crimes, including rape, attempted premediated murder, and kidnapping.
Sgt. Greville Clarke was convicted Tuesday by an enlisted panel at his Fort Cavazos court martial of 29 charges for crimes against five women in 2021 and 2022.

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Have you ever turned down the radio while you were driving to see better?
While seeing and hearing are two very different senses, in that kind of situation, your brain is working to process the audio and visual stimuli at the same time..
“It’s cognitive processing that’s happening. Even if it’s in the background of your awareness, that makes it a little bit more challenging to do what the task at hand is,” said Heath Jones, a research neuroscientist for the Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory. “That overloads you to some degree and it depends on what those signals are.

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Pyrrhus of Epirus was a beloved king, benevolent leader, and one of the most successful generals of the ancient world. He was so successful that Hannibal of Carthage, who earned a name for himself by kicking around the Romans for a while, called him the second greatest military commander after Alexander the Great. But no one would know any of that because his name is really remembered for that one thing: his big wins against the Romans at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC, victories that nearly ended his army.

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